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OPLENAC - The terrorist assassination of King Alexander I Karadjordjevic of Yugoslavia (1888-1934) was an event that made history as his death was essentially the first shot of WWII, Serbian PM Milos Vucevic said at the main state ceremony at Oplenac, central Serbia, that commemorated the 90th anniversary of the assassination.

BELGRADE - The Government of Serbia on Thursday adopted a Conclusion on its agreement to the recent purchase of Adolf Hitler's Directive No. 25 of March 27, 1941, whereby the then-German chancellor ordered the attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Kingdom of Greece.

The directive, signed by Hitler, consists of 13 originals.

BELGRADE - The Republic of Serbia on Wednesday purchased Adolf Hitler's infamous Directive No. 25 of March 27, 1941, whereby the German chancellor ordered the attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Kingdom of Greece.

Italian music of the 1950s and 60s brought a 'scent' of the West to socialist Yugoslavia without the political baggage.

KRALJEVO - At the proposal of the Higher Prosecutor's Office in Kraljevo, a local court has placed three officers of the so-called Kosovo Police in 30-day custody.

The three, identified as B S, aged 58, R Z, aged 48, and M S, aged 62, were arrested on June 14 in the territory of central Serbia.

BELGRADE - Eight children and one security guard were killed in a shooting spree in a primary school in downtown Belgrade on Wednesday morning, a source at the Serbian Ministry of Interior told Tanjug.

Six other children and one teacher have been hospitalised after being wounded in the attack.

Now, from a historical distance of three decades, it is possible to analyse these documents. A particularly interesting question is how the various intelligence predictions about the situation in Bosnia measured up to what actually happened.

The Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia was, for a long time, seen as an event in which Nazis played the dominant role. According to this narrative, the Ustasa were nothing more than executioners of their will while fascism and anti-Semitism were foreign ideas without any real roots in Croatia.

In Serbia, the Day of Remembrance for those killed in NATO aggression is being celebrated, and the central manifestation, which will be attended by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, is being held in Sombor. During 78 days, roads, commercial facilities, health facilities, media houses, monuments and military facilities were severely damaged.

A lecture given by two well-known Serbian historians in Zagreb earlier this week has caused controversy in Croatia because it appeared to show sympathy for the Serbian nationalist Chetnik movement in World War II.