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Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected Fenerbahçe chairman Aziz Yıldırım’s individual appeal on a “rights violation.” The decision was released in the Official Gazette July 2, making the ruling official.

Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on July 2 offered an amnesty to some backers of a sweeping militant offensive, in an apparent attempt to undercut support for the insurgents.

The new European Commission for the first time will include a separate position for a Commissioner on Immigration Matters.

This is due to the huge flow of immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East into the southern EU countries, said the new EC President Jean-Claude Juncker in an interview for Belgian media, quoted by the bTV national channel. 

Prime Minister Oresharski has said he is to pick a "moment" at the end of the month to step down.

While in Parliament, he has also added he would quit politics.

"The only thing that worries me is whether there will be a quorum when I hand my resignation," website Dariknews.bg quotes him as saying.

The Interior Ministry is Bulgaria's largest employer with 49 000 employees, reports the 24 Chasa daily. 

BELGRADE – Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic met with Japanese Ambassador in Belgrade Masafumi Kuroki Wednesday and thanked him for the aid Japan had sent during the flooding that had devastated Serbia in the second half of May.

Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow has said his country is interested in boosting ties with Bulgaria on an equal footing.

Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, a senior academic and diplomat nominated by Turkey’s two biggest opposition parties as a joint candidate in the upcoming presidential election, has commemorated the Sivas massacre which happened 21 years ago today.

BELGRADE - Serbia's position on Ukraine remains unchanged, but Serbia will not break off its friendly ties with Russia, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said.