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BELGRADE- Douglass Madden, the new director of the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) of the U.S. Department of Justice, met with the officials of the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) on Monday and announced financial support to new projects aimed at education and training of members of the Serbian police.

L'Wren Scott, fashion designer and girlfriend to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, was found dead in in a New York apartment Monday morning.

According to preliminary reports of police authorities, as cited by Fox News, she died of an apparent suicide.

The 49-year-old fashion designer and former model was found hanged in her Manhattan apartment.

BELGRADE - Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej said on Monday, commenting on the 10th anniversary of the pogrom against the Kosovo Serbs, that the suffering of the Kosovo Serbs was still ongoing.

Russia reveals proposal to end Ukraine crisis

MOSCOW, WASHINGTON, BRUSSELS -- The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged Ukraine to organize itself as a federal state and call new elections.

EU will "provide financial support" to Ukraine and help it with "securing energy supply".

The decision was announced by EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton, at a press conference.

She underscored the EU's commitment to the financial stabilization of the country. 

The EU and the US have imposed travel bans and asset freezes against a number of Russian and Ukrainian officials.

The sanctions are targeting figures that are seen as having a key role in the March 16 referendum in which Crimea's population has voted in favour of seceding from Ukraine and joining Russia.

The United States and Russia combined supply over half of the world’s arms exports, according to data for the past 5 years.

A Russian state TV anchor described Russia as the only country capable of turning the United States into "radioactive ash", Sunday.

96.76 percent of Crimeans vote in favor of joining Russia

CRIMEA -- The leaders of the Crimea have said that 96.6 percent of the population of this Black Sea peninsula voted to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.

BELGRADE - The turnout at the snap parliamentary poll in Serbia by 6 p.m. CET was 45.67 percent and if the trend continues, the turnout by the end of the vote should be between 53 and 55 percent, the Electoral Commission of the Republic of Serbia (RIK) stated on Sunday.