Sremska Mitrovica

The foreign minister and first deputy PM explained at the handover of the keys to 40 apartments for refugees in Sremska Mitrovica that this was the first completed apartment in the subproject 2 of the Regional Housing Program, the Serbian government said on its website.

Deputy PM and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic spoke on Friday with Turkish Ambassador to Serbia Tanju Bilgic.

According to the Serbian government, they spoke about "the next steps in the realization of the project for the construction of the Belgrade-Sarajevo highway."

A 34-year-old Croatian citizen, whose initials are G.M., has been arrested.

The police found the drugs inside 37 packages hidden in a Croatian number plates Skoda car.

Four migrants were injured early on Thursday when a stationary tank car exploded at the railway station in the town of Sid, western Serbia.

This has been confirmed by the police in nearby Sremska Mitrovica.

SREMSKA MITROVICA - Red Star Belgrade have defended their title in the regional ABA basketball league after beating Mega Leks 61-49 (24-16, 13-18, 9-6, 15-9) on the road in Sremska Mitrovica on Monday, wrapping up the play-off final series with a 3-0 sweep.

A handover ceremony was held on Friday for a newly-built safe house in Sremska Mitrovica, a town northwest of Belgrade, in the province of Vojvodina.

The donor, the B92 Fund, handed the facility over the the Center for Social Welfare Sava.

A ceremony in the newly constructed Safe House in Sremska Mitrovica marked the completion of works and the equipping of the facility.

These works lasted about 15 months.

The government is ready to back new projects and job creation, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.

He made the remark at the launch of a passenger river cruiser at the Vahali shipyard in Sremska Mitrovica.

The whole world knows it well who organized Operation Storm and who "in such a sly and mean manner exiled 250,000 people from their homes."

The central state ceremony to commemorate the 20th anniversary since the start of Croatia's Operation Storm campaign was held in Sremska Raca late on Tuesday.