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BERLIN - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday after a meeting with a number of German companies in Berlin that one large company had said it would create more than 3,000 jobs in Serbia by 2016.

Singapore Airlines on Tuesday started twice-weekly direct flights from Athens to Singapore, every Monday and Thursday.

The service will run to October 9 on Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

The airline also operates 33 weekly flights linking Athens and Singapore via Istanbul in a code-share partnership with Aegean and Turkish Airlines.

MUNICH - Andrea Arsovic, a member of the Serbian national sport shooting team, won the bronze medal in the women's 10 m air rifle event at the World Cup in Munich on Sunday.

Arsovic won the third place with 184.6 points, and Singapore's Martina Lindsay Veloso and Katerina Emmons of the Czech Republic claimed the first and third places, respectively.

A passenger plane of the El Al Israeli airlines flying to Munich made a forced landing at Sofia Airport Thursday morning due to the aggressive behavior of one of the passengers.

According to sources from the airline company, as cited by Israeli media outlets and the Bulgarian National Radio, the passenger attacked one of the crew members.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, the spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, on Monday became the second church leader to visit a Nazi concentration camp and hold a prayer for the millions of people who perished in World War II after Pope Benedict visited Auschwitz in 2006.

BELGRADE - British director, screenwriter and actor Timothy John Byford died on Monday at the age of 73, Radio Television of Serbia released.

Byford, who was renowned for children’s television shows like “Neven” (“Marigold”), “Babino Unuce” (“Granny’s Boy”) and the legendary “Poletarac” (“The Fledgling”), died in Belgrade on May 5 after a long illness.

Bulgaria's capital Sofia is among the 19 bidders to host the EURO 2020 football championship, placed on the official UEFA list. 

The tournament will take place in 13 cities, of which one will host the semifinals and the final and the reaming 12 will host the group phase of the tournament. 

The pilots' strike of the German airline Lufthansa will also affect the flights to and from Bulgaria. 

A special section on the Lufthansa website shows, that flights from Sofia to Munich and Frankfurt from April 2 to April 4, included, as well as the early morning flight to Munich, are cancelled. Same applies to the flights from Munich and Frankfurt to Sofia, April 2-4.

Eleni Avlonitou, a former swimming champion, has been sworn in as SYRIZA MP. Avlonitou replaced Rena Dourou who resigned from her parliamentary seat to focus on her candidacy for Attica governor.