—🇲🇰 NEW: North Macedonia plans to tax single people.

The move aims to curb population decline, Prime Minister Mickoski said.

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—🇨🇾/🇬🇷/🇹🇷 UN announces Cyprus leaders will pursue further confidence-building measures across the buffer zone

➡️ Greek Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, under UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ facilitation, have agreed to extend their dialogue aimed at boosting trust.

➡️ Key measures include plans to open additional crossing points, clearing landmines, establishing a youth affairs committee, and initiating environmental and solar-energy projects “as soon as possible, for the benefit of all Cypriots.”

➡️ These efforts address long-standing divisions dating back to the 1974 Turkish invasion, which left Cyprus split along a 180 km ceasefire line. Reunification talks have been stalled since 2017, driven in part by competing visions of a federal versus two-state solution.

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—🇪🇺/🇷🇸 NEW: The European Parliament has started the process of adopting a resolution on Serbia, citing waves of violence and the continued use of force against protesters.

The proposal came from several political groups, with a vote on September 8.

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🇮🇱❌☦️🇬🇷🇻🇦 A joint Roman-Catholic and Orthodox delegation represented by their Beatitudes, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, and Archbishop Alexios of Gaza visited the Latin Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City which housed both Catholic and Orthodox Christians.

Two of the victims from yesterday’s attack by an Israeli tank, were Orthodox Christians.

Their funeral services were held today in the presence of Patriarchs.

Pope Leo XIV condemned expressed his deepest sorrow at yesterday’s attack upon the Latin Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City and called for an immediate ceasefire to be instituted in the region.

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🇵🇸🇻🇦🇬🇷 Orthodox Archbishop of Gaza, his Beatitude, Alexios, thanks Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem for coming to his parish.

Archbishop Alexios then delivered a heartfelt message to the delegation:

“The people don’t want to immigrate. The people they want to stay in Gaza because this is their home... This is the land of Palestine and the Palestinians have the right to stay in their land.”

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—❗🇬🇭/🇷🇸 NEW: Ghana pursues labor deal as Serbia plans 100,000 Work Permits.

➡️ Serbia and Ghana are working toward a labor mobility agreement aimed at addressing Serbia’s aging population by leveraging Ghana’s youthful workforce, Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said after meeting with his Serbian counterpart Marko Đurić.

➡️ “Serbia plans to issue 100,000 work permits this year, and Ghana plans to take advantage of this opportunity so thousands of our young people can work in Serbia,” Ablakwa said.

➡️ He added that Ghana hopes to become the second country to formalize such an agreement with Serbia, following Egypt.

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—🇦🇱 NEW: Edi Rama called on Albanian tech leaders to work toward creating an AI minister.

He said Albania should be the first country governed by artificial intelligence.

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—Serbian conservative account Based Serbia on X:

OUTRAGEOUS! Vučić’s regime just signed a deal to import 100K workers from Ghana 🇬🇭

We are not in the EU 🇪🇺 but we follow Brussels like obedient servants! If this continues, Serbia will end up like France, UK... flooded, divided, unrecognisable.

This is national betrayal!

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🇷🇴📊⚡️ The Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) is polling 3rd, overtaking the National Liberal Party (PNL) among the preferences of the residents of Bucharest!

In a surprising statistic, AUR's popularity among the residents of the Romanian capital, Bucharest, a wealthy, liberal/left-leaning city, AUR is rising in the preferences of the locals to the detriment of the two established parties, PNL and the Social Democratic Party (PSD).

If these two parties had a strong grip on local politics of Bucharest as late as last year, winning every town hall except for the General Town Hall won by Nicușor Dan, who was backed only by the Save Romania Union (USR) at the time, the support for PNL and PSD has fallen to record lows.

Overall, the three nationalist parties appearing on the poll make up 25% of the voting preferences, the establishment parties (PSD and PNL) having 38% and USR alone 27%.

This marks a significant shift in the local politics of Bucharest which may play a role in the upcoming mayoral elections now that Nicușor Dan was elected president and left the Town Hall.

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—🇦🇱 NEW: PM Edi Rama has announced plans to make Albania a cashless society by the end of the decade.

The "Albania 2030" initiative aims to digitize all financial transactions and eliminate the use of cash.

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—☦️🇷🇸 WATCH: St. Sava Temple in Belgrade is one of the largest churches in the world!

With its stunning dome soaring over 70 meters, it’s a breathtaking symbol of faith and culture.

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—🇪🇺/🇦🇱 The European Parliament on Albania's EU membership:

Albania is getting closer to joining the EU – but it has to do more 🇦🇱🤝🇪🇺

MEPs welcome progress such as Albania fully aligning with the EU’s foreign and security policy.

However, protecting the rule of law, fundamental rights and combatting corruption demand improvements.

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—🇽🇰/🇲🇪 NEW: A Kosovo Albanian competitor in diving has been disqualified and banned from all competitions in Montenegro after making the Albanian eagle hand gesture 👐🏼 during an event.

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—🇭🇺/🇷🇸/🇷🇺 BREAKING: Hungary and Serbia have discussed the construction of an oil pipeline to transport Russian oil, with Russian representatives also participating in the talks, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said.

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