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BELGRADE - Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic will this week attend the 2017 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, his ministry announced Tuesday.

The meetings, officially slated for April 20-23, will bring together central bank governors, finance ministers and representatives of major financial institutions.

MADRID - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic was ousted in the opening round of the Madrid Open by Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday.
    
World number 131 Cirstea will next play Montenegro's Danka Kovinic.
    
The total prize money for the tournament in Madrid is USD 4,771,360

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KOPAONIK - Israeli companies increasingly want to invest in Serbia, which best indicates that Serbia is on a good path out of several years of economic crisis, Israel's Ambassador to Serbia Yossef Levy said.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade Higher Court sentenced to a 30-day detention seven individuals suspected of opening seven phantom companies through identity theft, and the list of companies includes firm Asomakum registered to a forged ID card of Andrej Vucic, the brother of the Serbian prime minister.

SAMOKOV - Serbia's U18 women's volleyball team beat Italy 3-0 (25-18 25-17 25-16) in the 4th round of Group A of the European championship in Bulgaria on Wednesday and qualified for the semifinals.

This victory puts Serbia at the top of the ladder in its group, but also reserves a spot at the world championship in Peru and the European Youth Olympic Festival in Georgia.

BELGRADE - A group of younglings will organize a 12-hour marathon dubbed "The Improvathron" performing their adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare at the Children's Cultural Center (DKCB) Belgrade on Saturday.

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.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday the contiuation of the reforms in Serbia would not be easy, but not that difficult either, because important changes would be made in order to improve production.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government adopted on Thursday a state programme for repairing the telecommunications infrastructure in areas hit by this year's floods, which will be funded by RSD 1.1 billion.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Government adopted on Thursday the Strategy for agriculture and rural development of Serbia for the period of the next ten years.