Zemun

BELGRADE - Hungarian military commander Janos Hunyadi (c 1406 - 1456) and Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin (1934 - 1968) will be honoured with monuments in Belgrade, the City Assembly decided on Thursday.

The monument to Hunyadi - known among Serbs as Sibinjanin Janko - will be erected at the Zemun Quay with funds to be secured by the Hungarian embassy in Belgrade.

Opposition New Party member and former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic told BIRN that prosecutors should launch an investigation into health minister Zlatibor Loncar over his alleged connections with the notorious Zemun Clan, whose members were found guilty of murdering Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003.

Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar says a photo of him and Dusan Spasojevic, made public recently, was made after he performed surgery on Spasojevic's father.

Loncar said that his resignation is "not contentious" - if the reason is the photograph. The minister also said he was never in the Zemun Clan villa.

Miladin Suvajdzic, a former member of the so-called Zemun Clan, testified in court that that one of the crime gang’s leaders “confessed” to killing Serbian opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija in 1999.

Last week's extremely cold weather in Serbia has resulted in the freezing of much of the Danube's surface.

In Belgrade's municipality of Zemun, the huge river now resembles a mass of ice.

Zemun Clan member Dejan Milenkovic aka Bagzi on Monday testified before the Special Court in the trial for the murder of Slavko Curuvija.

Milenkovic, a protected witness and resides in an unknown location, was brought to the court today under police escort.

BELGRADE - A group of migrants protested this morning in the center of Belgrade, in a part near the main bus station. Migrants went to the streets and stopped all traffic after which they started walking towards New Belgrade and Zemun accompanied by the police, writes Serbian daily "Kurir".

Five children were lightly injured on Thursday morning when a school bus crashed into a house in the Busije neighborhood of Belgrade's Zemun municipality.

The bus previously collided with a passenger car, Serbia's state broadcaster RTS has reported.

Health Minister Zdravko Loncar has confirmed that he bought an apartment in Belgrade from the wife of a member of the Zemun Clan crime gang.

Beta agency reported on Tuesday that he said he "personally took all the contracts to the police, who did their part of the work, and the outcome is known."

BELGRADE - The oldest geological deposits in Belgrade, discovered in the urban municipality of Rakovica, are over 170 million years old, Ljupko Rundic, a professor at the Faculty of Mining And Geology of the University of Belgrade, said on Wednesday.