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Belgrade  – When one looks at Rhine from a bridge in the former German capital Bonn, one immediately thinks of a highway, with barges navigating underneath like cars running the roads, with the lighter vessels overtaking the slower one before returning to their lanes.

Belgrade  – Serbia’s ruling coalition overcame internal strife over where to cut spending and has agreed on a 15-month, 520- million dollar standby credit with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Finance MInister Diana Dragutinovic said Friday.

Belgrade/Frankfurt – The German air carrier XL Airways confirmed that one of its aircraft had to make an emergency landing Saturday in Belgrade.

Pristina: The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj stated that there should be talks between Pristina and Belgrade on topics “of common interest for both sides” but the talks should be without mediators.

Belgrade: Serbian Labor Minister Rasim Ljajic yesterday apologized for recent comments made by a state secretary with his ministry, Zeljko Vasiljevic. The State Secretary had recently stated that Serbia should “import” women from Asia, in order to provide bachelors in some rural areas of the country with wives.

Belgrade – Into Serbia’s summer doldrums came the news: Ratko Mladic, Bosnian Serb genocide suspect and one of the world’s most wanted men, was about to be arrested.

Belgrade – Around 10 people were injured in an explosion in an ammunition factory in the central Serbian town of Krusevac, local media reported on Tuesday.

The Serbian president and leader of the Democrats (DS), Boris Tadic said yesterday that Serbia will compromise her territorial integrity for the sake of European integrations.

Belgrade – Serbia’s main goal is membership in the European Union (EU) but it will not give up Kosovo for it, President Boris Tadic said Sunday.

Belgrade: The president of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal,  has said that it is still early to say whether Radovan Karadzic’s arrest can reveal the whereabouts of Ratko Mladic, the Chief of Staff of the Army of Republika Srpska (the Bosnian Serb Army) during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995.