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Kelemen Hunor continues to support centralism, candidate in presidential elections on behalf of The Hungarian People's Party of Transylvania (PPMT) Szilagyi Zsolt said in Oradea on Monday.

BELGRADE - The European Commission's (EC) annual report on Serbia will certainly be one of the most positive reports to date, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said Sunday.

Appearing on a Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS) news program, Dacic expressed the belief that Serbia will receive the best mark among all West Balkan countries.

BELGRADE - Serbian parliament's Deputy Speaker Igor Becic and members of parliamentary groups met with Thomas Yazdgerdi, Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State, and jointly agreed that the Serbian-US bilateral relations have improved.

A total of 953 polling stations in Latvia, and 98 stations in 41 other countries have opened on Saturday for the country's parliamentary elections.

The Central Elections Commission will publish the initial results shortly after midnight. Final results are expected to be announced by Sunday, Itar-Tass reports.

In the second quarter of 2014, Macedonia owed a total of €5.741 billion to creditors outside the country.

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Every night in Tokyo, the few remaining residents of the Nakagin Capsule Tower bed down to sleep in the once-futuristic white pods they call home.

GENEVA - Serbia is the country with the largest number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Europe, which is why it needs international assistance, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said at the 65th session of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva on Tuesday.

FOOTBALL & POLITICS - Ensuring that the incestuous relationship between sports and politics in Middle Eastern, North African and Asian football is transparent and independent will take a lot more than focusing on the organization of tournaments and the projection of values

It is up to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to make the “next steps” needed to solve its name dispute with Greece, said Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos after meeting his counterpart from the neighboring country, Nikola Poposki, in New York late on Friday.

NEW YORK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic conferred with Angolan Vice President Manuel Domingos Vicente and Latvian President Andris Berzins on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session in New York on Wednesday.