Peace

Travel company Thomas Cook said that it had received 1.5 million pounds in 2013 as part of a settlement with the hotel owner Louis Group in connection with the deaths of Bobby and Christi Shepherd, aged 6 and 7 years, in Corfu due to a faulty boiler in 2006.

Japan?s Cabinet endorsed a set of defense bills on May 14 that would allow the country?s military to go beyond its self-defense stance and play a greater role internationally, a plan that has split public opinion.

President Klaus Iohannis on Friday stated that, in Poland, where he participated in the events marking the 70th anniversary since the end of WWII, he reiterated Romania's commitment to the European project.

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The Red Cross said April 6 that an aid plane is ready to leave for Yemen but its departure has been held back by logistics problems inside the war-torn country.
      
"We have a cargo plane with medical supplies which is ready to go," Sitara Jabeen, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told AFP.
      

During his traditional Easter Sunday message to people all over the world, Pope Francis called for peace and tolerance.

He pleaded for peace especially in the Holy Land, Ukraine, Libya, Yemen, Nigeria, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as quoted by the BBC.

Istanbul is making a bid to become a regional leader in the trillion-dollar business of legal arbitration, used for major corporate litigation or disputes between sovereign states.

Arbitration provides an alternative to years of expensive litigation in courts.

The United Nations Refugee Agency warned that the international community was faced with increasing difficulties to respond to the growing number of people making dangerous sea journeys in search of asylum or migration.

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BELGRADE - The Republic of Serbia attaches special importance to the work of the UN as the most important international organisation in the foundation of which it took part and organisation whose goals it fully respects, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said on the occasion of the celebration of the Day of the UN in Serbia.

The Bosnian prosecution has indicted 63 people for war crimes this year – a record number compared to previous years – but the increase is stretching the system’s ability to cope.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has hosted a reception for the participants of a regional conference on involvement of Western Balkan states in United Nations peacekeeping missions.

Serbia will make a full contribution to the role of the United Nations in preserving peace in the world, Dacic said late Monday.