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That is according to senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington Janusz Bugajski, who penned a piece for online journal Europes Edge, cited by the European Western Balkans and Tanjug.

They were arrested in mid-December during a football derby in the Serbian capital, on suspicion that they engaged in violent behavior at a sporting event.

According to the plea bargain agreement, Hrvoje Bakovic, Ante Firic, Jakov Podrug, Ivan Miskovic, and Stjepan Mihovilovic pleaded guilty and received from four to six months in prison, which they will serve in Serbia.

The relatively new government in Skopje has thrown itself into an international public relations campaign as a new United Nations-buffered effort to resolve the name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) gets under way.

The third arrest in one year of a U.S. official suspected of helping Chinese spies has bared the tense battle between the two superpowers’ intelligence agencies.

Regardless of what one may think about the United States, humanity cannot afford an unchecked superpower that does not follow well established norms and actions, and a set of core principles.

Japan’s government approved a record military budget on Dec. 22 but did not earmark enough extra money to stop a splurge on U.S.-made ballistic missile defense kit from putting a squeeze on funding for an ambitious domestic jet fighter project.

The parliamentary committee that inspects the so-called "pothen esches" declarations that politicians and other public servants are obliged to make annually regarding their source of wealth on Thursday indicted nine politicians to a prosecutor for not submitting those details last year.

Patient organizations are protesting. The reason is the decision - without a moratorium on generics next year, the ban on innovative medicines remains. This became clear after the adoption of the second-reading health funds by the parliamentary committee on budget and finance yesterday, Nova TV reported.

North Korean troops who were unable to stop one of their colleagues defecting across the border on November 13 have been replaced. South Korean intelligence sources told Yonhap news agency that border security personnel at the Joint Security Area have been withdrawn after the most high-profile defection across the Demilitarised Zone in decades, Daily Telegraphreported. 

The caging of a wild cat in a mall in the Turkish capital Ankara has provoked an outcry, with social media users and animal rights groups calling on the Nata Vega Outlet mall to ensure the safe release of the animal.