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BELGRADE - Businessman Milan Beko (53) is in a stable condition and his postoperaive recovery is going well, director of the Clinical Center of Serbia Miljko Ristic said on Monday.

It is difficult to make any prognoses but so far there are no signs to indicate the risk of developing complications, Ristic told Tanjug.

A suicide bomber on Nov. 16 attacked a vehicle convoy carrying Afghan lawmakers  including a prominent female MP, killing three civilians and injuring 22 others, officials said.
      
The blast, in which the attacker detonated an explosives-packed car, left the MPs' vehicles badly damaged on a main road in the west of Kabul, close to the parliament.
      

By Maria Petrakis

Josef Ackermann used his clout as head of Deutsche Bank AG to help save the euro by negotiating the biggest debt restructuring in history. Now, he's been tapped to resuscitate a victim of that deal.

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Kosmajac was arrested in his home in Belgrade on Sunday, alongside seven other people who work with him, on suspicion of tax evasion and other offences.

BELGRADE - Dragoslav Kosmajac, 66, one of the biggest drug lords in the Balkans, was arrested by Serbian police early Sunday in a major raid in Belgrade alongside seven other members of his crime group.

Turkish karateka Enes Erkan won his second world championship title in the men’s kumite (free fight) 84-plus kilogram division on Nov. 8.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic opened on Tuesday the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) Hub, an investment worth USD 700,000, in Zvezdara Science and Technology Park.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has said at a meeting of the Interpol General Assembly in Monaco that Interpol data indicates that Serbia is among that organisation's 10 most desirable partners, the Interior Ministry has stated.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic, who is also minister of trade, on Wednesday signed with Taner Buyukcan, CEO of Turkish textile maker Jeanci, a memorandum of understanding that will enable the company to expand its production capacities in Serbia.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the chair of the Social Democrat Party and presidential candidate, declared that fellow Social Democrat Viorel Hrebenciuc is no longer a deputy, as the Chamber of Deputies acknowledged his resignation. Ponta claimed that the MPs of the opposition Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL) 'defend their incompatibles' in the Parliament.