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BELGRADE - Books by Vladimir Pistalo, Bojan Krivokapic and Radovan Beli Markovic have been shortlisted for the NIN Literary Award.

A jury comprised of Mihajlo Pantic, Bozo Koprivica, Tamara Krstic and Jasmina Vrbavac has picked nine books that remain in contention for Serbia's most prestigious literary award.

The Bulgarian Socialist Party chairman Kornelia Ninova has invited the leaders of the parliamentary parties to meet on 6-8 December 2017, BGNES reported.

"I propose to discuss general political and legislative actions related to privatization, restitution, concessions, public procurement and the role of" force groups "during the transition years," wrote Ninova in the letter.

Serbian rower Martin Mackovic went missing in Berlin on Saturday morning; his family has sent an appeal to everyone who knows anything about his whereabouts.

The Belgrade daily Blic ieported this on Monday.

The Belgrade-based weekly NIN on Thursday apologized to all those who felt offended by the front page of its latest issue.

Russia is interested in opening "an economic zone" in Belgrade, that would incorporate a center for the sale of its new passenger planes MC-21s.

Vecernje Novosti reported this on Tuesday.

Two men from the village of Malosiste in southern Serbia died after being struck by lightning on Wednesday evening, the daily Blic is reporting.

The victims have been named as 47-year-old Sasa Z., and 37-year-old Marjan Z.

The Higher Court in Belgrade has found the weekly newspaper NIN guilty of defaming Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and has ordered it to pay him 300,000 dinars [2,437 euros] in compensation, media reported on Wednesday.

Editor-in-chief Milan Culibrk confirmed to N1 TV that the magazine will appeal against the sentence.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has won a lawsuit he filed against the weekly NIN over their article, "Nebojsa Stefanovic, the main Savamala phantom."

At a hearing at Belgrade's Higher Court on Tuesday, interior minister Nebojsa Stefanovic demanded 300,000 dinars (2,437 euros) in compensation after bringing a defamation case against NIN journalist Sandra Petrusic, editor-in-chief Milan Culibrk and the weekly news magazine itself.

A hearing was held at the Higher Court in Belgrade on Tuesday in the case of Nebojsa Stefanovic's lawsuit against a Belgrade-based weekly.

The Serbian interior minister, who is also a high-ranking official of the ruling SNS party, has sued the weekly NIN, its editor-in-chief, Milan Culibrk, and Sandra Petrusic, one of its reporters, over an article published earlier this year.