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In the second round of the election, preliminary results put Milatovic far ahead on 60 per cent of the counted votes while Djukanovic won 40 per cent.

Milatovic had the support of the ruling majority parties, while Djukanovic was supported by the smaller opposition Bosniak Party and two ethnic Albanian parties.

Europe Now candidate Jakov Milatovic casts his ballot during the first round of presidential elections in Podgorica. Photo: EPA-EFE/BORIS PEJOVIC

Opposition leaders now claim, as reported by some Belgrade media, that they know what decision the Belgrade University Ethics Committee will make on Sinisa Mali's doctorate. Sergej Trifunovic and Dragan Djilas said that, in a way, the Rector of Belgrade University Ivanka Popovic informed them about that decision.

Some far-right media outlets in Croatia have been condemned for publishing a press release from an alleged initiative of academics called "Let's Save Rijeka" claiming that Serbian groups with the help of some political parties are trying to take control of the university in the Croatian city of Rijeka.

Prince Mihailo Karadjordjevic, a grandson of King Alexander I, is preparing a Serbian church wedding after he and his wife married in a civil ceremony in London.

The wedding will take place on Sunday, October 23, at St George's Church in Oplenac, near Topola in central Serbia, where members of the Karadjordjevic dynasty are buried, and which is also the royal family's home region.

Tanjug has continued to work despite being deleted from the national media registry and having no permit to operate after being officially shut down following a failed privatisation effort, raising suspicions about who is now behind it.

Serbian and Turkish officials signed three documents aimed at improving cooperation in education, healthcare and other fields in Belgrade on Monday.

President of the Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency Serdar Cam and Belgrade University Rector Vladimir Bumbasirevic signed a memorandum on cooperation in the fields of education and scientific development.

446 kilos of drugs incinerated at power plant

BELGRADE -- The Interior Ministry has incinerated about 446 kilograms of illegal narcotics and other psychoactive substances at the Nikola Tesla power plant in Obrenovac.

In a statement, the MUP said that the value of the drugs was around a billion Serbian dinars (RSD) - about EUR 8.3 million.

BELGRADE - A contract on the establishment of the Science and Technology Park Zvezdara was signed in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The park should bring together high-tech development companies and hire young scientists, thus speeding up the country's technological development.

BELGRADE - The German Organisation for Technical Cooperation (GIZ) invested EUR 120 million in bilateral development projects in Serbia over the past 15 years, officials stated at the panel debate entitled '15 years of German-Serbian cooperation' at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Belgrade University on Friday.