Canada

Gabriel Resources is to axe 373 jobs, around 80 per cent of its workforce in Romania, citing “unjustifiably long delays” in the approval of the gold mining project at Rosia Montana, in central Transylvania.

The Quebec provincial police arrested on Thursday four Canadian citizens of Bulgarian origin for alleged ATM fraud. 

Their names are Vassilina Dimitrova, 48, Borislav Petrov, 53, Iren Vasilev Atanasov, 42 and the alleged ringleader Martin Antonov Kuzov, 52.

The arrests took place near Montreal and Toronto. Four other suspects are still on the loose. 

MIAMI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Daniel Nestor of Canada failed to reach the doubles semi-finals of the Miami Masters Series 1000 tennis tournament after losing to Ryan Harrison and Jack Sock of the United States 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) early Thursday.

Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund have signed a deal granting a USD 14-18 B package to the country, IMF mission's head Nikolay Gueorguiev has announced.

Under the new agreement, up to USD 27 B more could be allocated to Kiev over the next two years.

MIAMI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor have reached the men's doubles quarterfinals at the AT Masters tournament in Miami.

They beat Robin Haase of Netherlands and Jonathan Murray of the UK 6-2 6-4 on Monday.

Their next match will be against Ryan Harrison and Jack Sock from the US.

The prize fund in Miami is USD 5.64 million.

ZAGREB - The Serbian Democratic Forum (SDF) accused on Friday the Croatian government that its announcement that it would remove the refugee status from the people who fled Croatia during the 1990s war was intended to stop the return of Serb refugees and complete the ethnic cleansing.

Canadian aerospace and rail equipment giant Bombardier plans to build planes in Russia and the sale of USD 3.4B of aircraft will be delayed over events in Crimea.

Canada has joined the US in imposing sanctions against the country after it moved to annex Crimea, Chief Executive Officer Pierre Beaudoin said.

BELGRADE - This year's international Music Youth competition will be held between March 21 and 29 at the Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade, featuring young pianists from nine countries of the world.

BELGRADE - The Viking Aegir ship will sail into the Port of Belgrade on Thursday thus marking the opening of this year's tourist-nautical season in Belgrade.

Louis Garrel and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi star in the latter's 'Un Chateau en Italie.'