Author: Galip Duman

President Vucic has dashed hopes of Belgrade signing the EU plan for Serbia-Kosovo relations because it includes allowing Kosovo to join the UN. Despite claims on Monday that Kosovo and Serbia had agreed to a European Union plan on the normalisation of relations, Serbia’s President on Tuesday evening warned he will not sign the deal, because of points referring to mutual recognition and Kosovo joining the UN. “We are ready to negotiate the implementation plan but I will not sign this,” Aleksandar Vucic said on TV. “That’s what I said to [French President] Macron and [German Chancellor] Scholz in Munich,…

The Kazakh government will focus on implementing the election program of recently reelected President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, said Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov at the Government meeting on Dec. 14, reported the Prime Minister’s press service. “The government will focus on building a new state policy based on three interrelated principles of Just State – Just Economy – Just Society. I, as the Prime Minister, will do my best to achieve the goals set by the President. Every member of the government is expected to work hard so that every person would see the result,” Smailov said. According to him, the National…

Bird flu has hit several commercial turkey flocks in northwest Iowa this month, leading to the destruction of more than 400,000 turkeys to control the spread of the virus in an area of the state where there is a major turkey processing plant. State and federal agriculture departments confirmed cases of bird flu in commercial turkey flocks in Buena Vista, Sac, Cherokee and Ida counties throughout the first half of December, with the most recent confirmed case on Dec. 12 in an Ida County commercial operation of 90,000 turkeys. A commercial operation in Cherokee had 100,000 turkeys that had to…