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BELGRADE - Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic and State Secretary for European Affairs of France Harlem Desir pointed to the importance of the two countries' friendly ties and stated that cooperation on various levels will intensify in the time to come.

Love Is Folly, one of Bulgaria's first international film festivals, is coming to its end Saturday evening in the Black Sea city of Varna.

Mr Morgan's Last Love, a 2013 co-production of Germany, Belgium, the US and France, is the last film to be seen at 19:00 EEST at the Festival and Congress Center where the event has taken place since it started in 1993.

LONDON - Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic qualified for the fourth round of the Wimbledon ATP as he defeated Gilles Simon of France in the third round match on Friday, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4.

Djokovic achieved his seventh consequent win and his first victory against Simon after two hours and a quarter into the match.

Tourist Organisation of Belgrade, TOB, and travel agencies are organising two new special sightseeing tours of Belgrade throughout the summer.

While one tour aims to introduce visitors to World War I-era Serbia, the second one is about Nikola Tesla’s life and work.

In May 2014, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 427.5 thousand or by 18.1% above the registered in May 2013, the National Statistical Institute informs.

The mayors of Athens and Thessaloniki, Giorgos Kaminis and Yiannis Boutaris respectively, on Thursday welcomed a pledge by Environment Minister Yiannis Maniatis to lift obstacles to the creation of crematoria in Greece.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed to appoint regional representatives to oversee human rights violations and constitutional infringements.

The scope of the representatives’ mission is outlined in the draft constitutional amendment, which will be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) on Thursday, Interfax agency revealed.

The mayors of Athens and Thessaloniki, Giorgos Kaminis and Yiannis Boutaris, have joined forces in an appeal for cremation to be allowed in Greece, an option that has been enacted by law but never fulfilled amid opposition from the Church of Greece, among others.

LONDON - Serbia's best tennis player Novak Djokovic qualified for the Wimbledon ATP third round as he defeated Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic in the second round match late on Wednesday, 6-4, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-5).

After nearly three and a half hours of strenuous game, Djokovic managed to score his 11th victory in the matches against Stepanek.

Argentina's Lionel Messi continued his World Cup dual with Neymar by scoring twice in a 3-2 win over Nigeria while Switzerland's Xherdan Shaqiri got in on the act with a magnificent hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Honduras on June 25.