VALJEVO

BELGRADE - The traditional three-day seminar of slavicists meant for Serbian language students from foreign universities started at the Belgrade Faculty of Philology on Monday.

Thousands evacuated, water and landslides damage homes

BELGRADE -- So far 6,175 people have been evacuated from their homes in Serbia as rivers burst their banks in several areas of the country after two days of heavy rains.

BELGRADE - The daily rainfall measured on Thursday is the new record in the history of rainfall monitoring, with 107.9 litres per square metre in Belgrade, 110 litres per square metre in Loznica and 108.2 litres per square metre in Valjevo, shows the report of the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute of Serbia.

The heavy rains in Serbia have claimed three lives, leaving large parts of the country flooded.

Serbia's Emergency Situations HQ adopted Thursday a statement urging the Serbian government to declare state of emergency on the entire territory of Serbia due to the heavy rainfall and floods over the past few days, according to InSerbia News.

VALJEVO - Bishop of Valjevo Milutin presented Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic with the medal of St Bishop Nikolaj in the monastery Lelic on Saturday for his efforts and care for Serbia and its people and for tireless work towards improving the relations between the government and the Serbian Orthodox Church.

VALJEVO - The coalition gathered around the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) promised to voters at a pre-election rally in Valjevo that it will create new jobs and protect workers, farmers and pensioners.

At the rally held late on Wednesday, SPS leader Ivica Dacic underlined that Serbia needs a law on labor that will be modeled after EU regulation