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The imminent and overdue split within the leftists SYRIZA party was finally formally realized, Friday, after 25 rebel SYRIZA MPs submitted a common letter to the parliament speaker announcing they were forming a new party.

Two armed assailants attacked a four-story police station in Istanbul early Aug. 21, but no casualties were reported.

The assailants opened fire with long-barreled weapons on the K?raç police station in the Esenyurt district of Istanbul at around 6:40 a.m. They fled the scene when police immediately responded to the attack.

Supporters of the far-left “Left Platform”, the anti-memorandum and virulently anti-capitalist grouping within ruling SYRIZA up until recently, will reportedly launch a new party with the initials “EAM”.

The quality of life in the Bulgarian capital steadily deteriorated, recording a drop for the fifth consecutive year.

This is revealed by the latest Global Liveability Ranking 2015 of The Economist Intelligence Unit, daily Sega informs.

Human beings have been migrating since the dawn of time. Be it in search of food, more hospitable environments, to escape wars or conflicts, people have always been on the move. It is very difficult to know what happened on earth thousands of years before anyone started recording history in any way.

Oliver Ivanovic's lawyer Nebojsa Vlajkovic has said that the health condition of his client is becoming "increasingly more serious."

The Serb politician from northern Kosovo, who heads Civil Initiative SDP, was taken to the hospital over the weekend where he continues his hunger strike, started on August 7.

No decision has yet been taken on replacing German Patriot anti-missile systems and NATO is continuing consultations on the issue after Germany decided to pull out its Patriot batteries in Turkey, a Turkish diplomat has told the Hürriyet Daily News.  

Military exercises involving troops from Russia, Serbia and Belarus are due this year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has said.

Shoigu made the announcement after meeting his Serbian counterpart Bratislav Gasic on Saturday.

Russian daily Kommersant quotes Shoigu as saying "much importance" is placed on the drill which will be titled "Slavic Brotherhood - 2015".

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu struggled to control his emotions at a party event in Ankara on Aug. 14, when he shed tears for a soldier recently killed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has tried to ease Iraqi Kurds? concerns by stressing the Turkish military?s operations in northern Iraq were specifically targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) and not all Kurds.