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A Serbian sniper of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was killed while another was captured alive, daily Vatan has reported, while claiming at least five other hit men are currently operating in southeastern Turkey. 

Reports indicate that a sniper of Serbian nationality was captured dead during an operation in southeastern ??rnak's Cizre province on Jan. 29. 

Aleksandar Vucic on Monday said he "hoped that Serbs in Croatia would feel less threatened than is the case now."

The prime minister once again stated that "Serbia wants good relations with Croatia."

A bilateral security agreement between Bulgaria and Montenegro signed on Monday will pave Montenegro's way to EU accession talks, Bulgarian Deputy PM and Labor Minister Ivaylo Kalfin has said.

Kalfin is one of the Bulgarian officials who met Igor Luksic, Montenegro's Foreign Minister, during his visit to Sofia.

At least 39 people, including five children, drowned off Turkey's western coast on Jan. 30, the Turkish Coast Guard said, in the latest tragedy involving migrants in the region.

A patrol was able to save 62 refugees, while one Turkish citizen was detained for his alleged role in organizing the trip.

Albanian officials say the highway that will connect the Adriatic with the Ionian sea is one of the most important regional infrastructural projects that it is putting into effect.

How to be competitive and attract foreign investment? In Serbia, the answer is simple and sad - cheap labor, Germany's state-run Deutsche Welle is reporting.

According to the broadcaster, Austrian newspaper Kurier wrote about economic hardships of Croatia and Serbia and the attempt of the two countries to attract foreign investments primarily with cheap labor.

Greece says Macedonia is no longer allowing migrants to enter the country on their way to Central and Western Europe, ABC news reports.

Skopje officials did not immediately comment, but Athens maintains the border has effectively been sealed off to migrants for several days.

Macedonia's Foreign Ministry told BIRN that the Slovenian initiative, which calls for greater EU support to reinforce the Macedonian border, was a good idea that would relieve pressure on the country, which lies right on the Western Balkan route taken by refugees and migrants.

The Istanbul-based Caspian Strategy Institute (HASEN) said on Jan. 26 that regional challenges would force Turkish businesses to seek new markets in the Asia-Pacific region in 2016.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Stenmeir had a working dinner with Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias on Saturday evening where they discussed bilateral relations, the refugees issue, the crises in several regions as well as the Cyprus issue.