Topola

OPLENAC - Serbian Deputy PM and Defence Minister Milos Vucevic, Republika Srpska PM Radovan Viskovic and Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment and Veteran and Social Affairs Nikola Selakovic laid wreaths at Karadjordje's sarcophagus in the Church of St George at Oplenac, central Serbia, on Thursday on occasion of Serbia's Statehood Day.

TOPOLA - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic and Republika Srpska PM Radovan Viskovic attended on Wednesday a memorial service held at Oplenac, central Serbia, as part of Statehood Day events.

Descendants of the former Yugoslav royals want to be given back castles and a house in Montenegro, but also property in Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Macedonia, according to a document that BIRN has obtained from the Karadjordjevic family's office.

OPLENAC - The date of the upcoming presidential elections will be announced after a decision has been made on whether there will also be early parliamentary polls, Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic said Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday laid a wreath at the Monument to the Unknown Hero on Mt Avala near Belgrade to mark Serbia's Statehood Day.

Prince Mihailo Karadjordjevic, a grandson of King Alexander I, is preparing a Serbian church wedding after he and his wife married in a civil ceremony in London.

The wedding will take place on Sunday, October 23, at St George's Church in Oplenac, near Topola in central Serbia, where members of the Karadjordjevic dynasty are buried, and which is also the royal family's home region.

TOPOLA - Serbian Deputy PM and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic discussed in Belgrade on Wednesday with IMF representatives further improvement of the business climate in Serbia and a cadastre reform, which will be the focus in the period to come.

4 Bulgarian nationals seriously injured

SUBOTICA -- Four citizens of Bulgaria have been seriously injured while nine more received light injuries in a traffic accident that took place late on Wednesday.

The crash occured at 23:30 CET near Backa Topola in northern Serbia and involved a Bulgarian license plates bus.

Villages devastated by tornado-like storms (photos)

BELGRADE -- The village of Šopići near Lazarevac was hit by a storm described as a tornado late on Wednesday, and a similar disaster affected another, in central Serbia.

26 persons were injured within ten minutes during the storm in Šopići, southwest of Belgrade.

A hero fromTopola buried

Dejan Lazarevic (44) a fireman who lost his life saving lives of others was buried in Topola yesterday.

By his grave, all in tears there were his father Miroslav, mother Gorica, wife Dragana, son Nikola and daughter Nikolina.