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BELGRADE - The media play a significant role in paving a quality way for every modern society only if they maintain constructive dialogue and report based on verified facts, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said in an informal conversation with the directors and editors-in-chief of the members of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA).

A Polish tourist was gang raped in a “brutal and bestial attack” in front of her boyfriend before he was beaten up at an Italian tourist hotspot.
Police said the vicious attack on the Polish couple, who are 26-years-old, took place in Rimini on the Adriatic coast of Italy.
The man was beaten on the head and robbed according to Italian police.

ROME - Serbia's and Albania's EU membership is of strategic importance for the stabilization and security of the entire Western Balkans, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has said after meeting with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati in Rome.

Tugboats were finally able on Friday to tow the ill-fated Norman Atlantic to the port of Brindisi in Italy, allowing rescue teams to search the Greek-hired passenger ferry that caught fire on Sunday as it was traveling from Greece to Italy.

BRINDISI, Italy — Firefighters boarded the charred Norman Atlantic ferry in the Italian port of Brindisi on Friday to put out residual fires and allow a search for possible dead.

Italy's once-luxurious Costa Concordia cruise ship embarked on its last voyage on Wednesday, as tug boats began towing it from island wreck site to scrapyard grave in one of the biggest salvage operations in maritime history.
      

18 migrants have died, reportedly by suffocating, aboard a crowded boat travelling from North Africa to Italy carrying hundreds asylum-seekers on Saturday.

The migrants are said to have choked on fumes from an old engine while they were confined below deck, Italian news agency Ansa reports.