Central Serbia

KRALJEVO - At the proposal of the Higher Prosecutor's Office in Kraljevo, a local court has placed three officers of the so-called Kosovo Police in 30-day custody.

The three, identified as B S, aged 58, R Z, aged 48, and M S, aged 62, were arrested on June 14 in the territory of central Serbia.

Konculj is located between Kosovo and central Serbia.

Major European capitals are opposed and the US used to be too - but things have changed under Trump, the article says.

"European officials are concerned the Trump administration's hands-off approach to diplomacy could risk destabilizing a tinderbox region in Southeast Europe," it continues.

Speaking to reporters in the town of Valjevo, western Serbia on Wednesday, Brnabic said that "preventing participation in this way does not mean that Belgrade is violating the Brussels agreement."

BELGRADE - Domestic charges apply - and will apply - to telephone traffic between central Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija, and the +383 geographic area code will not be required for calls in the Telekom Srbija landline and mobile networks, in spite of politically-motivated statements by the Pristina regulatory body, the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said in a statement on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Early parliamentary and regular provincial and local elections began in Serbia on Sunday.

The polling stations opened at 7 am and will close at 8 pm, which will also mark the end of election silence.

A total of 28 media outlets will be offered for sale in the next round of privatisations which should be concluded by the end of the October, the Journalists' Association of Serbia said.

Another 22 media outlets will be shut down or transferred to their employees free of charge.

BELGRADE - Serbia has a total of 147,604 Roma people, making up 2.05 percent of the population, according to a study titled Roma People in Serbia, by Svetlana Radovanovic and Aleksandar Knezevic of the Faculty of Geography in Belgrade.

The study was done based on data from the census conducted by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia in 2011.

Party wants ministers sacked in wake of tragedy

BELGRADE -- The Social-Democratic Union (SDU) on Monday asked for defense and health ministers in the Serbian government to be "urgently dismissed."

BELGRADE - The 4th world conference of young ecologists, intended for students of master and doctoral studies that focus on environment protection, has started at the Petnica Research Station, near Valjevo, with 110 participants from 26 countries.