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Having bid farewell to the final TV debate between the two candidates in America's presidential election, we have now entered the last round in the race to succeed Barack Obama in the White House. Looking at the latest polls, the Democrat Party's nominee, Hillary Clinton, is set to become the first female president of the U.S.

Unionists hold finance ministry sit-in

Unions representing Greek tax office employees conducted a sit-in at a Finance Ministry building in central Athens on Thursday. Unionists said they were protesting a bill that would make the General Secretariat for Public Revenue an independent authority.

The legislation is part of a multi bill tabled in Parliament late Wednesday.

Turkish politicians head to Washington over worries about Armenian resolution

Worried about a draft resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that recognizes the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians as genocide, a group of Turkish politicians have set out for Washington to ensure that the resolution does not pass.

Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek arrived in Washington and is expected to meet his counterpart at the House of Representatives on March 25.

US Congress Calls on Obama to Send 'Lethal Aid' to Ukraine

The House of Representatives in Washington has adopted a non-binding resolution urging US President Barack Obama to provide Ukraine with weapons.

An overwhelming majority (348-48) of both Republicans (dominating Congress's both chambers) and Democrats are behind the initiative, calling on the move as a measure to help Kiev defend itself against what they call "Russian aggression".

SDA-PDD caucuses will not participate in committee work

BELGRADE - The caucus of the Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA) - Party of Democratic Action (PDD) notified Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic and the Committee on Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality that it will not participate in the work of the committee because it is not working in the interest of national minorities.

US House votes to block Obama immigration plan

The U.S. House on Jan. 15 defied President Barack Obama by adopting Republican measures blocking his controversial immigration reform efforts, but the bill is unlikely to survive in its current form.

Lawmakers voted 236 to 191 to fund the Department of Homeland Security through September 30, the end of fiscal year 2015.

US congressmen to pay three-day visit to Serbia

BELGRADE - An eight-member delegation of the United States Congress' House of Representatives has arrived on a three-day visit to Serbia, where it will meet with government and parliamentary officials.

The delegation is headed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (Virginia) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (New York).

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