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TURKEY The parliamentary discussion over the recently launched Kurdish initiative will be held during an open session, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late Tuesday, ending the controversy that prompted harsh criticism from the opposition. “It will be an open session, and everyone will be able to listen to what …

The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, a standing committee of the European Parliament, will review the report on visa liberalization for the Western Balkans. The Committee is expected to vote on the report, drafted by Slovenian MEP Tanja Fajon on September 15. The report will be put …

Valentin Inzko, the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), informed the European Union’s Political and Security Committee about the worsening political situation in BiH and the total absence of reforms’ implementation.

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday.

Russia and the United States could agree on a new treaty on reducing their nuclear arsenals by December, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday after talks with U.S. President Barack Obama. “The work is under way,” Medvedev told reporters. “A good start allowed us to hope that our teams …

European Union monitors are stepping up their patrols in Georgia ahead of the release of a much anticipated report on the origins of last year’s war in South Ossetia, in case the report’s conclusions reignite tensions around the breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. There has been heated speculation …

Besides patrol boats, Russia enters submarines to the Abkhaz marine area, Vice-Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Paata Davitaia told journalists. He said the submarines are already on the naval base in Ochamchira. Davitaia said Russia continued its occupation, which testifies its controlling over the Abkhazian sea area.

The Romanian Embassy hopes to continue Turkey’s fruitful activity as the NATO coordinator to Azerbaijan, the Romanian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Nicolae Ureke said at the seminar in the NATO school on Sept. 23.

BULGARIA The newly elected Director-General of UNESCO, Bulgarian Irina Bokova, has thanked three former prime ministers of her country for their support. “I owe this success to the successive governments of Simeon Saxecoburg, Sergey Stanshev and current Prime Minister Boyko Borisov,” Bokova, member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, said hours …

MACEDONIA In an emergency session on Wednesday the editorial committee of Macedonia’s Academy of Sciences and Arts’s, MANU, that prepared the country’s first encyclopaedia decided to revise the disputed parts of the book that refer to the history and present life of the large Albanian community living in Macedonia. After …