News archive of September 2014

BELGRADE - Olja Beckovic, the author of the flagship political discussion show "Utisak Nedelje" (Impression of the Week) that ran on the privately-owned TV channel B92 with national coverage, has described the management's decision to take the show off air as political.

Some 369 Turkish workers employed by a Turkish firm in Libya returned to Istanbul late on Sept. 29

The EU's new leadership must boost air and naval power in the Mediterranean to rescue migrants who are dying in record numbers trying to reach the continent's shores, Amnesty International said.

Greek unemployment dipped slightly in June to 27 percent from May's figure of 27.1 percent but the crisis-hit country still has the highest jobless rate in the European Union, figures published on Tuesday by the EU's statistical agency, Eurostat, showed.

BELGRADE - Serbia's tennis player Ana Ivanovic is through to the third round of the WTA tournament in Beijing beating Romina Oprandi of Switzerland 6-4, 6-2 on Tuesday.

Ivanovic is next to take on German Sabine Lisicki, who bested Canadian Eugenie Bouchard 6-2, 6-4.

AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

The Reformist Bloc says is targeting reform of the judiciary to guarantee independence of courts and free the justice system from corruption and political influence.

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BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will present the Order of the Republic of Serbia on a sash to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will pay an official visit to Belgrade on October 16, Nikolic's presidential press office said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Board of the National Bank of Romania (BNR, the central bank) decided on Tuesday to cut the key interest rate to 3% per year, from 3.25%, as of October 1, 2014, and also to slash the mandatory minimum reserve rate applicable to the lei liabilities of credit institutions to 10% from 12%, as of the enforcement period October 24 to November 23, 2014, reads a BNR release.

BELGRADE - Rodoljub Sabic, commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection, urged the Belgrade City Administration to release within five days the documents that would specify the number and outcome of solved restitution cases at the locality of the Belgrade Waterfront project.

The Living Planet Index, which measures trends in thousands of vertebrate species populations, shows a decline of 52% between 1970 and 2010, according to the latest edition of WWF's Living Planet Report.

In other words, the number of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe is, on average, about half the size it was 40 years ago.