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BELGRADE - As a special envoy of the president of Serbia, PM Milos Vucevic laid a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Hero on Mt Avala near Belgrade on Monday as part of WWI Armistice Day commemorations.

SABAC - Japanese automotive parts maker Yazaki on Tuesday opened a plant in Sabac that will manufacture cable sets for Daimler trucks.

Taxi driver Cedomir Popovic from Sabac in western Serbia was murdered in his car on Monday "because he charged his passengers RSD 2,390."

Belgrade-based newspaper Vecernje Novosti reported this on Tuesday quoting his widow, Zorica Popovic.

A patient named as V.V. has attacked and fatally injured a nurse in the Health Center in the town of Sabac, western Serbia.

Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting that the man used a knife to stab the nurse.

BELGRADE - Serbia marks the World War I Armistice Day as its national holiday on Tuesday. The day commemorates Germany's capitulation that led to the cessation of WWI hostilities. The capitulation was signed in a railway carriage in Compiegne, France, on November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m.

Top officials gather at Battle of Cer memorial

TEKERIŠ -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić and Serb Republic (RS) President Milorad Dodik laid wreaths at a memorial honoring soldiers fallen in the Battle of Cer.

TEKERIS, Aug 19 (Tanjug) - It is time that we live and work for Serbia like our ancestors, who gave everything for freedom and the country in World War I, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday in Tekeris, near Loznica, at the main ceremony commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Cer, in which Serbian forces won the first Allied victory in the Great War.

TEKERIS - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik laid wreaths at the monument honouring soldiers fallen in the Battle of Cer, the first victory of Serbia and its allies in the Great War.

Top officials to gather at Battle of Cer memorial

BELGRADE -- The 100th anniversary of the Battle of Cer will be marked on Tuesday at the memorial complex in Tekeriš near Loznica, western Serbia.

A state delegation at the central ceremony, organized by the government, will be led by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić.

BELGRADE - The decisive stage of the Battle of Cer, which ended as the first major Allied victory in World War I - and one that was won by the Serbian forces - took place in the night between August 15 and 16, 1914.