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Kurdish PKK fighters have ended a unilateral ceasefire with Turkey that they announced after the earthquake earlier this year, reports AFP.

The announcement, carried by pro-Kurdish media, threatened to lead to a return to the violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since the PKK began its fight for an autonomous state in southeastern Turkey in 1984.

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic met with Algerian Ambassador to Belgrade Fatah Mahraz on Wednesday, and noted that Serbia highly appreciated the principled position of friendly Algeria with regards to non-recognition of the unilaterally declared independence of the so-called Kosovo.

Kosovo and Serbian institutions on Wednesday said Serbian police had arrested three Kosovo police officials in an action that Kosovo authorities called "kidnapping".

Both countries gave contradictory claims regarding the location of the arrest.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has voiced criticism of Greece's armaments program, expressing his intention to address the issue with the next prime minister in Athens.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made clear once again that NATO-aspirant Sweden has to take concrete steps to join the alliance and stop the activities of the terrorists in the streets of Stockholm, underlining that the Nordic country will unlikely be admitted to NATO at the alliance's key summit in Vilnius in July.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday he had decided not to say a single word about his meeting with Quint representatives this morning as that was "better for everyone."

Five political leaders of the parties that managed to gain parliamentary representation in the May 21 elections will cross swords in a televised debate starting at 9 p.m. on Thursday.

In Greece, where we are proud of the Rum in Istanbul and the ethnic Greeks of Himare in southern Albania, we freak out when we hear about a Turkish minority in Thrace. So much so that various politicians - usually from the right - are setting dangerous precedents for the country.

Donald Trump became the first former president to face a judge on federal charges as he pleaded not guilty in a Miami courtroom Tuesday to dozens of felony counts accusing him of hoarding classified documents and refusing government demands to give them back.

The first mass demonstrations against Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rule erupted ten years ago over plans to destroy an Istanbul park. Matthew Collin watched the colourful, imaginative protests flourish - until the police moved in.