Eurasia

A man who dramatically threatened a top ethnic Turkish politician with a pistol on live television will not be charged with attempted murder.Prosecutors say that Oktay Enimehmedov, who put a tear-gas gun to Ahmed Dogan’s head while he was speaking at a conference in Sofia which was being broadcast live …

The Albanian energy regularity agency, ERE, on Monday stripped the local subsidiary of the Czech power giant CEZ of its operating license, effectively taking it back into state control.The decision, which outrights nationalizes the utility company, CEZ Shprendarje, is the latest twist in a long-running dispute between Tirana and the …

At least 37 hostages have been killed in the terrorist attack at the In Amenas natural gas complex from eastern Algeria, the country’s Prime Minister announced on Monday. Five other are missing and could be dead.

On Monday, the Malian army has retaken the control of Diabaly, an important town in the fight against Islamist militants that are concentrated in the north of the country. A spokesman of the army said they succeeded to retake the town with air support from France, without ground assistance.

Protesters rallied in the town of Presevo on Monday after Serbian police moved in to remove a monument to ethnic Albanian fighters.Several thousand ethnic Albanians rallied on Monday in Presevo in southern Serbia following Belgrade’s removal of a controversial monument dedicated to Albanian guerrillas. Demonstrators at the peaceful hour-long rally …

Campaigners launched an online petition to dismiss Vuk Jeremic, the President of the UN General Assembly, after a Serb nationalist song was performed at the UN.”Vuk Jeremic should be removed so he cannot use UN platform to spread hate,” reads the petition, which so far has more than 3,500 supporters. …

Police stepped up security near Serbian monuments and graves after several attacks amid heightened tensions over Belgrade’s removal of an Albanian memorial.Three people have been detained after a World War II memorial was demolished in the town of Vitia and more than 60 Serbian graves were attacked across Kosovo on …

A man who dramatically threatened a top ethnic Turkish politician with a pistol on live television will not be charged with attempted murder.Prosecutors say that Oktay Enimehmedov, who put a tear-gas gun to Ahmed Dogan’s head while he was speaking at a conference in Sofia which was being broadcast live …

Bucharest says that two Romanians have died but another three have been released after being taken hostage by Islamist militants in Algeria.The Romanians were among more than 80 who are reported to have died as a result of the hostage crisis at a British-Norwegian gas plant in Algeria, where Islamists …

Croatian politicians have reacted sharply to the Slovenian foreign minister’s suggestion that Zagreb risks missing out on EU membership.Politicians hit back at foreign minister Karl Erjavec’s warning on Friday that “Croatia might never join the EU” if the Slovenian parliament doesn’t ratify the Croatian accession agreement before July 1 this …