—🛢🇷🇸/🇭🇺 NEW: The Serbian government and Hungarian energy company MOL have signed a strategic agreement regarding the NIS oil company.

➡️ Under the deal, Serbia will purchase an additional 5% of shares in NIS, while the refinery is guaranteed to operate for at least the next 10 years at the same capacity it had prior to US sanctions.

➡️ Meanwhile, the separate purchase agreement for MOL Group to acquire a 56.15% majority stake in NIS from Russia's Gazpromneft is still being finalized.

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—☦️ 🇹🇷/🇺🇸/🇪🇺 Bloomberg: "Türkiye plans to reopen the long-shuttered Halki seminary as a university, reviving an institution central to Orthodox Christianity and addressing a longstanding demand from the US and the EU."

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—🇷🇸/🇧🇬 Serbian King and Bulgarian Queen

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—🇦🇱 NEW: In an interview with Vanity Fair Italy, Albanian PM Edi Rama described Hamas as the "absolute evil" while emphasizing Tirana's need to maintain good relations with Israel, Turkey, and Gulf states.

➡️ Rama noted that Albania cannot afford a restrictive "barricade" style of foreign policy, adding that while he disagrees with some actions of the Israeli right, he is not in a position to offer moral lessons to others.

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—❗️🇦🇱 WATCH: Demonstrators flooded the streets of Tirana today, marking the 21st consecutive day of massive anti-corruption rallies in Albania.

➡️ This drone footage captures one of the largest anti-corruption protests in Albanian history.

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—☦️❗️ 🇧🇬/🇪🇺/🇷🇺 WATCH: PM Rumen Radev announced that Sofia will block the next European Union sanctions package if it includes the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

➡️ The veto threat comes eight years after Patriarch Kirill publicly reprimanded Radev inside the Bulgarian presidency for acknowledging the contributions of other nations, including Poles, Finns, and Romanians, to Bulgaria's liberation.

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