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NOVI SAD - Novi Sad is one of five candidate cities shortlisted for the title of European Youth Capital 2018, Exit Foundation announced on Wednesday.

The remaining four candidates still in the running are Manchester, Perugia, Kecskemet and Cascais.

Novi Sad is the only non-EU city among the last five, which makes its success even more impressive.

NOVI SAD - Novi Sad Synagogue hosted a commemoration program on Friday marking the 71st anniversary of the deportation of Jews from the largest city in Vojvodina to notorious concentration camps in Europe.

NOVI SAD - Marta Takac, acting director of the Vojvodinasume public enterprise, and Andreas Beckman, deputy director of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Danube-Carpathian programme, inked a memorandum of cooperation and understanding on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The Road Corridor X section through Serbia will be completed by the end of next year, State Secretary with the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Miodrag Poledica said at the opening of a conference titled "Transport and Logistics of South East Europe and Danube Region - TIL 2015" on Thursday.

A 38-year-old man was crushed to death by a 40-tonne machine in a unit of the former heavy machine production plant in the Danube city of Ruse.

The incident happened at the end of the workday on Monday, according to reports of local police, as cited by the Bulgarian National Television.

The team of emergency doctors could do nothing but register the death.

NOVI SAD - Novi Sad Mayor Milos Vucevic conferred with Turkish Ambassador to Serbia Mehmet Kemal Bozay on Friday.

The Novi Sad mayor underlined that the meeting is a great opportunity for presenting the activities and cooperation to date between Novi Sad and Turkish cities.

Novi Sad had "20 murders in two years"

NOVI SAD -- 20 murders occurred in the town of Novi Sad, the administrative center of Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina, in 2013 and 2014.

Ten murders were committed during each of these years, the daily Vecernje Novosti writes.

BELGRADE - National park Fruska Gora and Gornje Podunavlje special nature reserve from Serbia won the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism in Protected Areas awarded by the EUROPARC Federation, officials of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) stated in the Belgrade Media Centre on Friday.

Bulgaria and Romania on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for conducting feasibility studies for the construction of two new bridges across the Danube.

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BELGRADE - The 3rd Danube Business Forum will be held on October 27-29 in Belgrade and Novi Sad, the organisers announced on Wednesday.

The event is expected to bring together 800 participants - leaders in the fields of energy, water, agribusiness, transport, ITC, entrepreneurship and the creative industry in the Danube region, which includes 14 countries.