Novi Sad

BELGRADE - Serbia will take on Paraguay in Novi Sad in the Fed Cup World Group B play-offs.

The Tennis Federation of Serbia Board of Directors decided on Wednesday that the tie will be played at Novi Sad's Spens on a hard court.

The Serbia-Paraguay tie is scheduled for April 18-19.

NOVI SAD - Novi Sad Mayor Milos Vucevic met on Wednesday with European champion in long jump Ivana Spanovic and thanked her for staying in her city despite being able to pick any place in the world to live and train in.

It is a privilege for the people of Novi Sad to be able to regularly welcome Spanovic back after winning medals in big competitions in recent years, he stated.

Novi Sad had "20 murders in two years"

NOVI SAD -- 20 murders occurred in the town of Novi Sad, the administrative center of Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina, in 2013 and 2014.

Ten murders were committed during each of these years, the daily Vecernje Novosti writes.

NOVI SAD - On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, celebrated on February 21, the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), a party in the assembly of the Serbian province of Vojvodina, announced on Saturday an initiative "to save the Cyrillic alphabet and Serbian language".

"Poisoned" students had "collective psychosomatic reaction"

NOVI SAD -- Students in an elementary school in Sajkas, northern Serbia, who fainted and reported with symptoms suggesting their were poisoned, suffered from mass hysteria.

"New possibilities for cooperation with NATO"

NOVI SAD -- Serbia will have new opportunities to continue and improve cooperation with NATO, U.S. Ambassador in Serbia Michael Kirby said on Wednesday.

It would happen "within an individual action plan that should be signed in March," Tanjug quoted him as saying.

NOVI SAD - Vojvodina Prime Minister Bojan Pajtic and US Ambassador to Serbia Michael Kirby have discussed the current situation in Vojvodina and ways to improve the conditions for attracting investments.

NOVI SAD - Serbia is getting new opportunities for continuation and improvement of cooperation with NATO within an individual action plan that should be signed in March, U.S. Ambassador in Serbia Michael Kirby said on Wednesday.

NOVI SAD - Novi Sad Mayor Milos Vucevic conferred with U.S. Ambassador in Serbia Michael Kirby in the City Hall on Wednesday and their talks covered the possibilities of cooperation between the administrative centre of the Serbian province of Vojvodina and U.S. cities.

NOVI SAD - The remains of a necropolis dating back from the mid-18th century were found by workers of the public utility company Put who were carrying out repair works on a road in Novi Sad, Dusanka Veselinov, archaeologist - conservator at the Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments Novi Sad, said on Friday.