Belgrade Arena

BELGRADE - Red Star Belgrade lost to Brose Bamberg 75-69 (30-18, 30-16, 16-19, 16-16) at home in the Euroleague Basketball Round 5 on Thursday.

In front of just 5,892 spectators at the Belgrade Arena, the German team was in control from the very beginning and registered its third consecutive win in European basketball's top-tier competition.

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BELGRADE - Red Star Belgrade beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 87-84 (19-24, 20-25, 23-12, 24-23) at the Belgrade Arena in Euroleague Basketball Round 4 on Thursday.

Over 8,000 supporters celebrated Red Star's second Euroleague win this season after Taylor Rochestie scored with just 15 seconds to go and Maccabi's Deshaun Thomas missed a three-point shot.

The naming rights sponsorship over the Belgrade Arena (Kombank Arena) will be granted to Croatia-based Atlantic Grupa (Group), the city has announced.

The Serbian capital's largest indoors sports and conference venue will thus for the next five years be known as the Stark Arena - after the Serbia-based company Stark (Soko Stark), which is now owned by Atlantic Grupa.

Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday that the Socialists (SPS) "have no other program except the hatred toward him."

This was his reaction to the scene in front of the Belgrade Arena venue ahead of an SPS election convention over the weekend, when a group of trumpet players wearing t-shirts reading "SPS Surdulica" chanted, "Vucic, you faggot."

The Turkish national basketball team has been handed a heavy defeat by host France at Eurobasket 2015, bidding farewell to its dreams of a podium finish, or at least an Olympic berth.

Roared on by a record-breaking indoor crowd in Liile on Sept. 12, France thrived on home support as it thumped Turkey 76-53 to reach the quarterfinals.

OSCE's Ministerial Council, which should be attended by 1,500 participants, will be held at the Belgrade Arena venue on December 3-4.

BELGRADE - A large delegation of European football's governing body UEFA is on a several-day working visit to Belgrade, the host city of the UEFA Futsal EURO 2016, to be held early next year.

BELGRADE - The number of collective shelters for people from flood-hit areas in Belgrade is decreasing, with around 2,500 people still accommodated in them, Belgrade Assistant Mayor Irena Vujovic said on Saturday.

Works are under way to re-equip an army barracks in Obrenovac so that those people can be relocated there and be closer to their homes, she said.

BELGRADE - Serbia will be a worthy host of the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships, to be held in Belgrade, Serbia's Minister of Youth and Sport Vanja Udovicic said on Monday.