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BELGRADE - The website of the Serbian daily Kurir was brought down due to the key attack which came from Croatia, and the Serbian police are cooperating with its colleagues so as to determine who is behind the attack, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has said.

The daily Kurir reported to the Interior Ministry several attacks on the website committed on June 23-24.

 Deal paves way for a center supplying services to more multinational companies, offering high-level jobs

By Vangelis Mandravelis

The Bulgarian authorities apprehended 263 fake EUR 200 banknotes, said the National Security Agency (DANS). 

The fake banknotes were hidden under the seat, in the trainers of the driver and in the luggage of the other passenger in an automobile with Polish registration plates. It tried to cross the border from Bulgaria into Romania at Danube Bridge 2 checkpoint in Vidin. 

The U.S. will allow two companies to export unrefined oil for the first time in four decades, taking steps to break a  ban on crude exports, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

Bulgaria's Finance Ministry has proposed to divide the garbage fee into two parts.

One part of the payment will be for cleaning public spaces and the other part for collecting household waste.

If the amendments to the Local Taxes and Fees Act are approved, the new garbage fee will enter into force in the beginning of 2015, according to reports of econ.bg.

As of 1 July 2014, the EU will cut the roaming price caps for data downloads by more than half, phone calls and text messages will become cheaper as well.

Albania to become candidate for EU membership

BRUSSELS -- EU foreign ministers have decided to propose that Albania be given candidate status for membership, according to EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule.

Fule posted on his Twitter account to congratulate Albania before the decision was officially announced.

Tenants of an apartment building, which was bent like a vulgar Tower of Pisa due to the construction of another building on adjacent property, are continuing to live there despite the risks of the total collapse of the structure.

The four-story building in Istanbul’s industrial eastern suburb of Gebze is being propped up by a crane by the contractors to prevent it from collapse.

Russia asked Twitter on June 24 to block access to a dozen accounts it deems "extremist", the head of the country's telecoms watchdog said, as Moscow seeks greater control over Internet sites based beyond its borders.

The government’s attempt to exempt spending for the 2015 G-20 summit from regular public procurement procedures has prompted a debate at Parliament over the cost of the plans The government has moved to exempt spending on the G-20 summit, which will be hosted by Turkey in 2015, from regular public procurement procedures, sparking reactions from the opposition.