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BELGRADE - Legendary Serbian and Yugoslav actor Velimir Bata Zivojinovic died in a Belgrade hospital Sunday evening aged 83, Belgrade media reported on Monday.

Zivojinovic, who was the region's most prolific actor, gained international fame thanks to the leading role in the 1972 Yugoslav partisan film Walter Defends Sarajevo, which became massively popular in China.

BELGRADE - Secretary General at the Serbian Foreign Ministry Veljko Odalovic said Wednesday that he believed that the information about the freeing of a Serbian national kidnapped in Libya was true, but it had not been confirmed officially yet.
    

BELGRADE- Former Yugoslav diplomatic and consular offices in New York, Bonn, Bern and Tokyo, worth USD 70-80 million, are to be put up for sale, with Serbia to receive around USD 35 million of the total.

BELGRADE- Former Yugoslav diplomatic and consular offices in New York, Bonn, Bern and Tokyo, worth USD 70-80 million, are to be put up for sale, with Serbia to receive around USD 35 million of the total.

War criminal Veljko Maric, whose case sparked a long-running row between the Zagreb and Belgrade authorities, was given temporary leave from a Croatian prison for medical treatment.

Bodies of workers killed in Siberia fire arrive in Serbia

BELGRADE -- An aircraft from Moscow carrying the bodies of six Serbian construction workers who died on the Yamal peninsula in Russia landed in Belgrade late on Wednesday.

The workers died in a fire in an oil station construction site's sleeping quarters in early February.

BELGRADE - An aricraft from Moscow carrying the bodies of 6 Serbian construction workers who died in a fire at a construction site on Siberia's Yamal peninsula in early February landed in Belgrade on Wednesday.

The fire broke out in the construction site's sleeping quarters during the night.

Dozens of migrants found on highways traveling on foot

BELGRADE -- 39 foreign nationals with no personal documents have been discovered in the region of Serbia's eastern town of Negotin on Tuesday.

Former Croatian president Stjepan Mesic said Veljko Kadijevic, the wartime commander of the Yugoslav People’s Army, who has died in exile, should have been tried for war crimes.

Veljko Kadijevic, the wartime commander of the Yugoslav People’s Army, who was accused but never convicted of war crimes during the conflict in Croatia, has died in exile.