News archive of September 2014

Croatia's Security and Intelligence Agency, SOA, on Sunday warned that Islamist jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq are using Croatia as a "transit area on their way to and back from" the war zones of the Middle East.

Looking at satellite photos of Istanbul over the past 40 years provides a clear view of how the city's forests have been disappearing. Serkan Ocak, Yücel Sönmez and Murat Şaka went up with a helicopter to get an even better understanding of the situation and saw firsthand the area’s transformation.

A new committee consisting of 40 officials from the relevant ministries has been formed by Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis to assess the progress of liberalization measures introduced since the start of the crisis in the services sector.

Deadly hit-and-run accident driver arrested in China

BELGRADE -- Serbia will seek the extradition from China of Marko Milićev, suspected of causing a traffic accident in Belgrade that killed a 21-year-old man.

NEW YORK - World No. 1 Novak Djokovic advanced to the quarter-final of US Open after defeating Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-1, 7-5, 6-4 late on Monday CET.

In a routine match that lasted a little over two hours, Djokovic notched up his fifth win over Kohlschreiber and reached his 22nd straight Grand Slam quarter-final.

NEW YORK - Serbian qualifier Aleksandra Krunic lost her fourth round match at the US Open to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus in three sets (4-6, 6-4, 6-4) early on Tuesday CET.

In the match that lasted two hours and 18 minutes, the 21-year-old Serbian showed flashes of brilliance before struggling to keep her focus in the final set, which cost her a place in the quarter-finals.

Moves by the Serbian Orthodox Church to put the head of the Church in Macedonia on "trial" before an ecclesiastical court in Serbia will set back recent attempts to renew dialogue between the churches, observers say.

BLED/BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will attend the Bled Strategic Forum on Tuesday and participate in a panel discussion on the topic 'The Future of the Western Balkans - How to Make Regional Cooperation Work?'.

BELGRADE - See You in Montevideo, directed by Dragan Bjelogrlic, is Serbia's nominee for the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Members of the Expert Committee of the Serbian Academy of Film Arts and Sciences voted on Monday to nominate the film, the institution's Secretary-General Mirko Beokovic said.

BELGRADE - Serbia will not sign an international peace accord with Kosovo, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, who is also deputy prime minister, told the Belgrade-based Danas daily.

The daily said that Kosovo's outgoing Prime Minister Hasim Taci has announced that the accord is to be signed soon.