Novi Pazar

In mid-December, a group of men, some of them armed, set up a roadblock at a construction site in the southern Serbian town of Novi Pazar, where an Islamic centre was being built by the Islamic Community of Serbia.

On the occasion of the leap in the number of newly infected with the COVID-19 virus, Kon added for "Blic" that even if there is another wave, he believes that there will be no need to introduce a state of emergency.

"I don't think the media has ever been more open in any campaign so far. People have the opportunity to see everything. Today, I am hosted at your TV as president and I have no intention of talking about political opponents. Interestingly, some had higher ratings until they appeared on RTS and Pink.

Vucic visited the works on the construction of the Novi Pazar-Tutin road.
"We gave 4 million euros for the first phase. The construction works are starting and will not stop," he said.
He stated that different roads have been neglected for decades and that part of that has started to change.

Fahrudin Radoncic told his colleagues at a session of Bosnia's Council of Ministers on Tuesday that he will submit his resignation as security minister after explaining earlier in the day that "political differences on strategic issues" with governing coalition partners were behind his reasons for quitting.

Turkey's state-run aid agency supports the production of masks and disinfectants in Serbia, as part of fight against the
coronavirus.

Emir Asceric told BIRN on Tuesday that he has been dismissed from his post as assistant to the mayor of the southern, mainly Bosniak-populated town of Novi Pazar because he claimed that President Aleksandar Vucic used the delivery of medical supplies and equipment for political purposes.

The epicenter of the earthquake was three kilometers north of Novi Pazar in the direction of Golija, or about 700 meters from the medieval monastery Djurdjevi stupovi, the endowment of Stefan Nemanja from the 12th century, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Serbia's Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime said it is awaiting more extensive expertise before deciding whether to take on the case of man recently arrested by the police and allegedly planning a terrorist attack.

The man in questi0n, Armin Alibasic, was arrested on January 13 in the southwest Serbian city of Novi Pazar in Serbia's mainly Muslim Sandzak region.

According to Blic, Alibasic was prevented in this attempt by officers from the Security and Information Agency (BIA) and by the police.

Alibasic spent several hours before being arrested in a village near the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Djurdjevi Stupovi, where he had been practicing martial arts in previous years, as well as tactical military training, and camping and survival.