Europe

The most popular destinations among Bulgarian online users this summer are London, Barcelona and Istanbul, a survey of trivago.bg shows.

Although it is the most expensive destination in the top ten list with average prices of EUR 209 per night, London has been the most popular search on the platform, Dnevnik notes.

The editorial team of the only Albanian newspaper in Montenegro, Koha Javore, are calling on parliament and ethnic Albanian parties to keep it alive.

The problem facing the weekly Koha Javore is that it is part of the bankrupt state-owned Pobjeda company, which is millions in debt and facing closure or sale.

President: We would lose friends by taking sides

BELGRADE -- Tomislav Nikolić says he wishes to see an end to hostilities in Ukraine, "not only because of Serbia's specific position - but for the sake of people there."

The Mayor of the Mladost residential district in Varna, Hristo Hristov, was arrested in a special operation of the State Agency for National Security (DANS).

The district police directorate in the Black Sea city of Varna announced that they had cooperated in the arrest of Hristov and made clear that the full investigation and the reason for the arrest was only known to DANS.

Probe against Serbian general is only the first, prosecutor says

The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) on Wednesday approved the disbursement of a 1-billion-euro sub-tranche of bailout loans to Greece.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met in Belgrade Wednesday with representatives of Russia’s special steel producer Krasny Oktyabr to discuss possible privatization of the Zelezara Smederevo steelworks.

Both sides agreed to work together to find possible models of cooperation, the government's media relations office said in a release.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said Wednesday that he was confident that Serbia should remain insisting on respect for international law in the Ukrainian crisis, which meant that it recognized Ukraine within the borders that made it a UN member state, something that Serbia also sought for itself.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that he does not believe that the probe into the privatisation of the oil company Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) will put Serbia's ties with Russia in danger, and added that the investigation will reveal what happened in the sale of the majority stake in the national oil company to Russia's Gazprom Neft.

"60 people die every day in clashes in Ukraine"

The death toll from clashes in eastern Ukraine has doubled in the last 15 days, spokeswoman of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Cecile Pouilly says.

The United Nations on July 26 estimated that 1,129 people had been killed in the conflict in Ukraine, while the latest report put the figure at 2,086.