Serbia arrests eight over pharma firm embezzlement
Belgrade. Serbian police on Saturday arrested eight people suspected of embezzling some 12 million euros ($15 million) from the country's main pharmaceutical firm Galenika, AFP reported.

Turkey softens opposition to Syria conference: press
Ankara. Turkey has softened its opposition toward a Russia-US brokered international conference on Syria following Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip to the United States, local media said Saturday, as cited by AFP.

Bulgaria border police officers detain car thief, who threatened them with weapon
Bregovo. Bulgarian border police officers with the border police department-Bregovo detained a car thief- recidivist, who threatened them with a weapon, the press office of the Bulgarian General Directorate of Border Police announced.