Military technology

BELGRADE - Seventy 9 mm CZ-99 semi-automatic pistols, five 7.62 mm M-70 AB2 automatic rifles and two crates of 7.62 mm and 9 mm ammunition have been found missing from a Belgrade military warehouse, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday.

The arms were found missing during a routine check, a statement said.

BELGRADE - Ten people have been arrested in the Apatin and Sombor areas for selling, distributing and using various arms, and a large quantity of weapons has been found, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Wednesday.

After hours of clashes between self-styled anarchists and riot police officers that started on Thursday night and continued into the early hours of Friday, municipal workers cleared a ton of debris from the area around the National Technical University of Athens, where the unrest caused widespread damage.

Belgian police and protesting off-duty soldiers clashed on Wednesday in Brussels.

AFP is quoting authorities as saying that 8,500 soldiers took part in the demonstration, and that riot police fired water cannon "after receiving projectiles of smoke bombs and firecrackers from the protestors."

Greek police, on high alert for the ongoing visit of outgoing US President Barack Obama, are investigating a bag of makeshift firebombs found outside a soccer stadium near central Athens.

An Athens court on Monday acquitted 34-year-old defendant Theodoros Sipsas of all charges related to the firebombing of a branch of Marfin Bank in central Athens during an anti-austerity riot in 2010 that led to the death of three bank workers.

DNA traces of at least three people have been found on the weapons cache found over the weekend near PM Aleksandar Vucic's family home in suburban Belgrade.

Riot police officers were targeted by unidentified assailants who launched Molotov cocktails at them in the central Athens district of Exarchia late Saturday and early Sunday, authorities said.

A first attack occurred on Tositsa Street shortly before midnight, while a second assault took place at around 12.30 a.m. on Harilaou Trikoupi Street.

Police were investigating after an assailant threw a Molotov cocktail at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of Parliament, in central Athens, on Wednesday.

No damage or injuries were reported.

The trial into the deadly May 2010 firebombing of a central Athens branch of Marfin Bank, which resulted in the death of three employees, started on Monday with harrowing testimony from the victims' colleagues.