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Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport is ready for flights to the U.S., Aleksandar Vucic said Friday opening a new passageway for official vehicles (Airport Pass D).

The prime minister also "underlined that Air Serbia would hire 150 people for the flights."

Human rights campaigners called on the government to place memorials at detention camps in Serbia where Croatian prisoners from Vukovar were imprisoned after it fell to Yugoslav troops in 1991.

Serbia has protested after Vukovar town council on Monday said that signs in Cyrillic, the script of the Serbian minority in Croatia, will no longer be displayed on town institutions, squares and streets.

The receipt of any official note in Cyrillic in Vukovar will also now require a special request and payment of a fee of three euros.

A child has gone missing in the waters of the Danube river near the Bulgarian city of Ruse on Tuesday.

Three children were bathing in the river in the area of the so-called "Horse beach" under the Riga hotel.

The children were bathing in the forbidden area, when one of them went missing, Darik radio reports.

Romanian and Serbian experts are seeking solutions to ensure the electricity production at the Iron Gates, so that there aren't any excesses that could determine the accentuated decrease in the Danube water levels and that could lead to environment and navigation issues, Energy Minister Andrei Gerea announced on Wednesday.

Bulgaria has decided to cut tonnage-related port dues for cruise ships in a bid to give a boost to its tourism industry amidst increased competition from neighbouring countries.

NOVI SAD - Marta Takac, acting director of the Vojvodinasume public enterprise, and Andreas Beckman, deputy director of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Danube-Carpathian programme, inked a memorandum of cooperation and understanding on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The Road Corridor X section through Serbia will be completed by the end of next year, State Secretary with the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Miodrag Poledica said at the opening of a conference titled "Transport and Logistics of South East Europe and Danube Region - TIL 2015" on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government adopted Thursday an agreement on air traffic between Serbia and the United States, by which the Ministry of Construction Industry, Transport and Infrastructure has made it possible for national airline to be the first one in former Yugoslavia to have direct transatlantic flights after almost 16 years.

Serbia-U.S. direct flights "coming soon"

BELGRADE -- The Serbian government adopted on Thursday in Belgrade an agreement on air traffic between Serbia and the United States.