Europe

BELGRADE, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- The friendship between Serbia and China is indestructible and their pragmatic cooperation has yielded fruitful results, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said here on Wednesday, stressing that cooperation with China is fully in line with Serbia's current and long-term interests.

The Serbian prime minister made the remarks when she met with visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

During the meeting, Wang conveyed the warm greetings from Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Prime Minister Brnabic.

MOSCOW, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Russia and the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agreed on Thursday to step up cooperation to build "a peaceful, stable and sustainable region."

"We all support the expansion of equal and mutually beneficial cooperation in the vast Asia-Pacific space," Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the fourth Russia-ASEAN summit via video link.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s justice minister said Thursday the European Union member should not pay any of the total $1.8 million daily fines the EU’s top court imposed for Warsaw’s ignoring its injunctions on changes to the judiciary and operation of a lignite mine.

Zbigniew Ziobro called the European Court of Justice injunctions lawless. Poland insists the court has no authority over its justice system and has been ignoring its rulings.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Truck driver Andriy Melnik never took the coronavirus seriously. With a friend, he bought a fake vaccination certificate so his travel documents would appear in order when he hauled cargo to other parts of Europe.

His view changed after the friend caught COVID-19 and ended up in an intensive care unit on a ventilator.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: Germany is "very concerned" over Israel's decision to list six Palestinian civil society groups as terror organizations, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports.

28 Oct 2021; MEMO: The US government appeal case against a decision that blocks the extradition of WikiLeaks' co-founder Julian Assange began on Wednesday, Anadolu News Agency reports.

The US government's legal representatives will try to overturn the decision, which was issued last January, based on the concerns over Assange's mental health.

The US said it was "extremely disappointed" with the decision blocking his extradition.

VILYUCHINSK/ Kamchatka/, October 27. /TASS/: The submarine forces of Russia’s Pacific Fleet will be bolstered with four new ships, including two improved Borei-A-class and two Yasen-M-class nuclear-powered submarines, Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet's Submarine Force Command Rear Admiral Arkady Navarsky told the press Wednesday.

DONETSK, October 27. /TASS/: The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin said on Wednesday the Ukrainian forces had seized the village of Staromaryevka in the "grey zone" in the south of the disengagement line between the Ukraine-controlled territory and the Donetsk Republic.

MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/: Russia in contact with Donbass representatives is probing into reports Ukraine has used a Turkish drone Bayraktar in Donbass, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, October 27. /TASS/: France’s military doctrine on counteracting information attacks has raised serious alarm bells in Moscow because it is a declaration of militarizing the information space, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.