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World leaders gather June 6 to mark 70 years since the historic D-Day invasion of France that hastened the end of World War II, against a backdrop of intense diplomacy over the Ukraine crisis.

President Nikolic wants Serbia in Asia

At the time when Serbia Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic is going to be at the meeting with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Serbia President Tomislav Nikolic shall be a host to Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of Belarus.

Tourism is important to countries along the Silk Road in terms of the economy and humanitarian concerns, President Abdullah Gül said on June 5 at the fourth summit of the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Language-Speaking States held in the southwestern province of Muğla.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan never ceases to amaze me. Just as I was thinking he had set a new standard in damaging the economy by attacking the Central Bank, he raised the bar by announcing a vast debt amnesty.

PASOK chief Evangelos Venizelos hit back on Thursday at critics within his party who have suggested that there should be a leadership challenge, labeling them “fifth columnists.”

Turkey and the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at supporting forestry in the Balkans and Africa.   
 

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has strictly dismissed the idea of running as a candidate in the upcoming presidential election, vowing to stick to his decision come hell or high water.

This year's edition of the startup competition betapitch | Sofia will take place on June 13 in Betahaus Sofia, reports bTV. 
It is organized in partnership with The European Pirate Summit and LAUNChub.

Bulgaria's Government must resign immediately, said the leader of the opposition party GERB Boyko Borisov at an extraordinary press conference on Thursday. 

It was called in after earlier on Thursday the leader of the government coalition partner Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), Lyutvi Mestan, said the government should resign and early elections be held by the end of 2014.

Bulgaria's Parliament is to vote on the cancellation of the Public-Private Partnership Act as inoperative on Friday.

The Public-Private Partnership Act took effect in early 2013.

Bulgaria's current government finds that the piece of legislation is inoperative, unnecessary and restrictive, according to reports of dnevnik.bg.