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The police have investigated the scene at the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Bogorodica Trojerucica, and are currently looking for an unidentified suspect.

The monastery confirmed that the incident happened, but denied media reports earlier in the day that said the sum taken was "EUR 300,000."

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will meet with the head of the Roman Catholic Church on May 24th. Today the prime minister leaves for a visit to Rome and tomorrow (May 25th) will be received by Pope Francis in the Vatican. This was announced by the government information service, quoted by FOCUS News Agency,

According to a press release issued by the Serbian government, they discussed "bilateral relations, the situation in the region and the progress of Serbia on the road to the European Union."

Other topics included "possibilities for improving cooperation between the two countries, primarily in the field of economy and investment."

"This criminal organization was created not only because of Montenegro, but also because of other areas, and it is clear that a similar situation was being prepared in Serbia, too. What was being prepared for then Montenegrin Prime Minister (Milo Djukanovic) was also planned in Serbia," Milivoje Katnic said in the Higher Court in Podgorica.

Bosnia's Minister of Communications and Transport, Ismir Jusko, is to visit Turkey soon to work out the terms of Ankara's three-billion-euro funding offer for the new highway - but officials in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska have already said that they do not support the deal.

The retrial of Miroslav Jovic, a member of rebel Croatian Serb forces accused of killing one Croat civilian and wounding another during wartime in 1991, started at Zagreb county court.

Police in southwest Bosnia have stopped five buses containing migrants and refugees from Sarajevo from going to the Salakovac asylum centre near the city of Mostar.

They intercepted the buses when they arrived in Konjic, between Sarajevo and Mostar. Cantonal police then told them they cannot go any further, N1 media reported.

Denis Zvizdic, the chair of Bosnia's Council of Ministers, on Thursday said police will be reassigned to help the border police service secure Bosnia's borders and stop illegal crossings.

This is one of the measures of the draft of the emergency plan that the Council of Ministers adopted earlier this week, which is expected to be confirmed soon.

The state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday acquitted the leader of the Alliance for a Better Future for Bosnia party, businessman Fahrudin Radoncic, of obstructing the work of the judiciary, along with three other defendants.

Montenegro's Special Prosecution for Organised Crime has begun probes of several Montenegrin citizens who reportedly fought in the Middle East or financed the sending of fighters to conflict zone, BIRN has learned.