Geography of Europe

A Montenegrin parliamentary committee has backed confirmation of the border agreement with Kosovo and a vote on the issue could take place by the end of this year.

The Interior Ministry is set to begin a two-year process of marking the border line with Kosovo.

Southern Antalya province's resort town of Belek, a popular destination for golfers, is aiming to increase its share of the global golf tourism market to compensate for the loss of Russian tourists.

Turkey and Greece will resume discussions aimed at resolving their dispute over their official border in the Aegean Sea following a pause of more than a year, hurriyetdailynews.com reported on Tuesday.

Elma Djusinac, who was arrested in Bosnia-Herzegovina in late November on suspicion of links to terrorism, was extradited to Serbia on Tuesday morning.

The director of the service for foreigners affairs, Slobodan Ujic, confirmed this to Sarajevo-based daily Dnevni Avaz, saying that she had been handed over to the Serbian border police for further action.

Officials estimate that dozens of Bulgarian women - the vast majority of them from the Roma minority - are known to have sold their babies to couples in Greece desperate for a child of their own, reads an article posted on EUobserver website on Tuesday.

After a 12-month delay, the European Union has approved the payment of almost three million euros of assistance to the Bosnian authorities for work on war crimes cases.

Diplomats from Turkey and Greece are set to resume discussions aimed at resolving the decades-long dispute over the official border between the two countries in the Aegean Sea, more than one year after the most recent talks. 

The agreement on the future Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo "is in line with Kosovo's laws and constitution."

This is according to the Pristina-based Albanian language website lajmi.net, which reported that the Constitutional Court in Pristina has ruled to this effect.

A total of 11 migrants were killed on Dec. 22 when a migrant boat capsized off Turkey's Aegean coast near Ku?adas?.

According to initial reports, 11 migrants were killed in the capsizing, while the Turkish Coast Guard rescued seven migrants from the sea. 

Air-supported rescue efforts on the sea were ongoing.

Turkish police have seized bootleg alcohol hidden in pressure cookers along with other illicit items found in a workplace in the southern province of Adana. 

A total of 10 people were detained in an early morning police operation on 22 separate locations in Adana on Dec. 22, Anadolu Agency reported.