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Serbia has 101 registered parties

Serbia has a total of 101 political parties registered, and the last one entered in the Register of Political Parties is the Serbian People's Party, headed by Nenad Popovic.

Belgrade court acquits man accused of killing 11 Croats

BELGRADE -- The War Crimes Department of the High Court in Belgrade has acquitted a former member of a Territorial Defense unit accused of killing 11 Croat civilians.

Zarko Cubrilo was a member of the Territorial Defense in Tenja, eastern Croatia. The civilians were killed in the summer of 1991.

Serb cleared of murdering 11 Croats in Tenja

BELGRADE - The Department for War Crimes of the High Court in Belgrade acquitted Monday former member of the Tenja Territorial Defense Force Zarko Cubrilo of the murder of 11 Croat civilians in Tenja, eastern Croatia, in the summer of 1991.

The prosecution has the right to appeal this decision to the Appellate Court in Belgrade.

Tadic:Serbia needs no atmosphere of rallies, counter-rallies

BELGRADE - Serbia does not need the atmosphere of rallies and counter-rallies because it takes the country back to the 1990s, Social Democratic Party (SDS) leader Boris Tadic said on Monday.

Part of Ibar regional road lane collapses

KRALJEVO -- A landslide has collapsed a part of one lane on the Ibar regional road near Bogutovac on the Kraljevo-Raska section, restricting traffic to only one lane.

B92's reporter said on Monday that the landslide was still active and endangering the other lane as well.

Books laid to commemorate WWII bombing of National Library

BELGRADE - The National Library of Serbia was razed to the ground in the first hours of the Nazi bombing of Belgrade on this day in 1941.

Just like every year on this day, representatives of the Serbian government, diplomatic corps, city leaders and citizens gathered in Kosancic Venac Street to commemorate the event on Monday.

Mayor: Works on Belgrade Waterfront by end of summer

BELGRADE - Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali expressed the expectation on Monday that the construction of the Belgrade Waterfront could begin by the end of summer.

Bombing of Belgrade was one of most brutal

BELGRADE - Officials of the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Social and Veteran Affairs, city of Belgrade and citizen associations laid wreaths in Belgrade on Monday to commemorate the victims of the Nazi bombing of Belgrade on April 6, 1941.

Democrats want committee to look into helicopter crash

BELGRADE -- The opposition Democratic Party (DS) will submit a request to Speaker Maja Gojkovic for parliament to set up an inquiry committee.

It would "establish all facts related to the helicopter crash that claimed seven lives on March 13," DS official and MP Gordana Comic said on Monday.

DS demands special parliament session on helicopter crash

BELGRADE - The Democratic Party (DS) will submit a request to Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic for the parliament to set up an inquiry committee aimed to establish all facts related to the helicopter crash that claimed seven lives on March 13, DS deputy leader Gordana Comic said Monday.

"Church icons stolen in Kosovo sold to finance terrorism"

BELGRADE -- Some of the icons pillaged from the 35 Serbian Orthodox churches targeted in Kosovo in March 2004 have been sold in the black market.

The violence in Kosovo, known in Serbia as "the March pogrom," was organized by ethnic Albanians and targeted Serbs, their property, and holy places.

PM wants proof that Seselj is now healthy

BELGRADE -- The government will decide on the Hague Tribunal's request once it receives "some papers" that show that Vojislav Seselj is "healthy."

This is what Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told a news conference on Saturday, after the Netherlands-court earlier in the week ask for Seselj's provisional release to be terminated.

"Agreement possible on on lower electricity price hike"

BELGRADE -- Instead of having a RSD 55bn deficit in the first quarter, as agreed with the IMF, " we have a deficit that totals only 21.5bn," says Aleksandar Vucic.

41 pct of citizens want Seselj's voluntary return to ICTY

BELGRADE - Most Serbian citizens - 41 percent - believe that it is best that Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj return to detention in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) voluntarily, show the results of a survey conducted by the Faktor Plus agency.

Kosovo Buries 28 Bodies from Mass Grave

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Isa Mustafa joined mourners in the village of Rezalle at a burial ceremony for 28 war victims exhumed last year from a mass grave in southern Serbia.

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