News archive of February 2016

A regular meeting of the United Nnations Security Council on Kosovo will be held in New York on Monday.

Serbia will be represented by the country's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

Swiss voters on Feb. 28 rejected a proposal to automatically deport foreign criminals for even minor offences, referendum results showed.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that the EU cannot allow Greece to plunge into “chaos” by shutting European borders to refugees.

Spanish actress Victoria Abril opened the 44th international film festival FEST, in a ceremony held at Belgrade's Sava Center venue late on Friday.

Nikola Ljuca's debut feature film "Humidity" was the first to be screened.

Greek government prepares a plan to integrate refugee children into Greek schools accepting its fate to host for a long time and incorporate large groups of immigrants and refugees in Greece risking to alter the characteristics of many local communities and ignoring the long term implications of that decision, given that many European countries are refusing to share responsibility.

Heavy fog blanketed Istanbul on Feb. 29 affecting transportation in the metropolis, including the cancelations of most ferry lines as well as disruptions in air traffic. 

Many city ferry lines were canceled due to the fog, which began to show its effects early in the morning.

However, ferry lines bound for the Prince Islands and the Golden Horn continued without disruption.

The Serbian National Assembly will be dissolved on Thursday, March 3, paving the way for the calling of early parliamentary elections.

On the same day, deputies are expected to elect a new defense minister. Zoran Djordjevic, who is now the MoD's state secretary, has been proposed as the candidate.

Bulgarian biathlete Vladimir Iliev won bronze medal at the men's 15-kilometre mass start of the European biathlon championship held in Tyumen, Russia on Sunday.

Iliev made two penalties in the shooting, one each in the second and third rounds and finished in 38:29.0 minutes.

The Bulgarian finished 8.5 seconds behind the winner from Germany Florian Graf.

Leonardo DiCaprio has finally won his first Oscar for his performance in survival epic The Revenant.

He was named best actor at the 88th Academy Awards that took place on February 28 at Dolby Theatre, Hollywood.

A Pentagon spokesman's statement about the deaths of two Serbian embassy staffers in Libya "does not reflect the official position of the U.S. administration."

This is what U.S. Ambassador Kyle Scott told Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as they met in Belgrade on Saturday.