Ministry of Interior

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Friday that the Ministry of Interior (MUP) was cooperating with EULEX regarding today's arrest of a Serbian citizen in Pristina, adding that a warrant had been issued to search the arrestee's apartment.

BELGRADE - Delegations of Serbia and China have signed 13 agreements and memorandums regarding infrastructure, transport, finances, agriculture and telecommunications.

The agreement on economic and technical cooperation between the two governments was signed on Wednesday by National Bank of Serbia Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic and China Development Bank head Hu Huaibang.

Code Red warning for heavy rain was declared in three Bulgarian districts - Smolyan, Kardzhali and Haskovo, Saturday.

The situation in the Smolyan village of Banite is critical because of a flooding and landslides, the center of the town of Haskovo is under water, Nova TV reports. At some places the rainfall has reached 90 liters per square meter.

One detained for damaging Albanian-owned property

BELGRADE -- MUP State Secretary Aleksandar Nikolić has said that the police arrested one person for attacking stores owned by citizens of Albanian nationality.

He added there was intensive work to identify other assailants.

A total of 51 persons were apprehended at Bulgaria's border checkpoints over the weekend, the Ministry of Interior informs.

Of those, 50 were detained at the Bulgarian-Turkish border and one at the Bulgarian-Macedonian border.

Police officers on strike since this morning

BELGRADE -- Serbian Police Trade Unions began a strike performing only the most important tasks in the field, and 91.6 percent of the workforce responded to the protest.

Bus crashed into an electricity pole, 8 injured

BELGRADE -- The accident, which occurred this morning at the corner of Vojislav Ilic and Svetozar Radojčića in Belgrade, resulted in eight people having been injured.

Police have detained 78 illegal immigrants in an operation at a hostel in downtown Sofia.

The illegal immigrants, Iraqi and Afghanistan nationals, were detained in a joint operation of the Sofia Directorate of the Ministry of Interior and Border Police, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Television.

Some 10 illegal immigrants were sharing one room.

The phenomenon of public bureaucracy State administration has 7,553 advisers

BELGRADE: One in four public workers employed in the state administration is somebody's adviser. Of 28,000 officers, 7,553 carry the title junior or senior "adviser", Blic sources say.

The Regional Directorate of the Interior Ministry in Plovdiv warned that a section of the Trakia highway has been flooded, Tuesday.

The 112-106 km stretch of the emergency lane in the direction Burgas - Sofia was flooded due to an overflowing irrigation canal.

Police teams from the Plovdiv Directorate have been sent to secure the site.