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BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke by telephone with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday to inform him of the course of the Brussels dialogue and the necessary further consultations.

Vucic said that would prevent him from attending a Non-Aligned Movement Contact Group Summit in Baku, but that Serbia would be represented by its foreign minister.

The 10-day Northern Strike 23 military exercises at Camp Grayling in Michigan come as President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has raised the possibility that high tensions between Moscow and the West will spill over into the Arctic region.

The President of the Republic of Croatia is blacklisted/Photo:EPA/MARTIAL TREZZINI

The reason was Milanovic's recent statements that Ukraine had no place in NATO and that the EU had instigated a "coup d'état" in Ukraine in 2014, which overthrew pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.

Former writer of Putin's speeches and political analyst Abbas Galyamov is convinced, as he says, that the Russians will look for someone to blame for significant military losses on the battlefield in Ukraine and economic problems caused by Western sanctions.

France's prime minister has ruled out backtracking on a plan to raise the retirement age as unions prepared for another day of mass protests and strikes against the contested reform.

An increase in the minimum retirement age to 64 from the current 62 is part of a flagship reform package pushed by President Emmanuel Macron to ensure the future financing of France's pensions system.

According to reports, the security chief was killed, and his two colleagues were wounded, reports TASS.
A guard is killed and two injured by a man with an assault rifle, the Azerbaijani foreign ministry says.
"The attacker broke through the guard post, killing the head of security with a Kalashnikov assault rifle," it said.

On Jan. 22, we are celebrating 60 years of French-German friendship! On this day in 1963, then-French President Charles de Gaulle and German chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed the Élysée treaty. This treaty marks reconciliation between our two countries, after centuries of enmity and just 18 years after the end of World War II.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized in a joint article in the German publication "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" that they strive for quick and concrete progress in the EU enlargement process, DPA reported.

"As all the EU heads of government gave speeches one after the other, the meeting dragged on late into the night. Prime Minister Petkov, as he tells it, went from one colleague to another during those hours - including Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz.

French workers angry over proposed changes to retirement rules are halting high-speed trains, disrupting electricity supplies and taking to the streets Thursday in a day of nationwide strikes and protests seen as a major test for Emmanuel Macron and his presidency.