Belgrade

BELGRADE - The two-day 2014 European Congress of Chimney Sweeps, organized by the European Federation of Chimney Sweeps (ESCHFOE) in one of its member states every two years, started in Belgrade on Thursday.

President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) Zeljko Sertic opened the event at Falkensteiner Hotel.

Minister: Killing of Gendarme is act of terrorism

BELGRADE -- Serbian Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović has announced that he ordered "strengthening the police force presence" in a part of the Ground Safety Zone.

BELGRADE – Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Thursday that a member of the Serbian Gendarmerie officer who had received wounds in the Ground Safety Zone in the night between Wednesday and Thursday succumbed to his wounds and died.

BELGRADE - The second International Printmaking Triennale will open in Belgrade's Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion on Thursday, September 4, and it will present the works of 209 artists from 40 countries.

Gazprom reportedly to buy Serbia's biggest football club

BELGRADE -- Serbian football club Red Star (Crvena Zvezda) will soon be privatized, and the new owner, Russia's Gazprom, will invest EUR 100 million.

This is according to a report published in the Belgrade-based daily Blic.

BAKU - Fans of FC Neftchi from Baku, Azerbaijan, have stoned the bus that was taking the players of FC Partizan from Belgrade, Serbia back to their hotel after a training session.

The Serbian team was stunned by the incident on Wednesday, but fortunately no one was harmed, the media in Belgrade have reported.

Partizan football club bus stoned in Azerbaijan

BAKU -- Fans of FC Neftchi from Baku, Azerbaijan, have stoned a bus that was transporting the Partizan Belgrade FC players.

The incident happened late on Wednesday as the team was heading back to their hotel after a training session.

Policeman shot near administrative line dies of his wounds

BELGRADE -- A member of the Serbian police unit Gendarmerie, seriously wounded when unknown attackers opened fire near the administrative crossing of Merdare, has died.

It is suspected that the attackers were timber thieves from Kosovo.

"Serbia stabilizing factor, to play constructive role"

VIENNA -- Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said ahead of a conference in Germany dedicated to the Western Balkans that this was "a region of conflict for too long."

He added that the Balkans "now wants the European Union to peacefully unite it," and that Serbia will be a stabilizing factor in this.

BELGRADE - Head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on the diaspora and Serbs in the region Aleksandar Cotric said Wednesday that he expects Serbian government to send a demarche to the government of Hungary over the incident in which unidentified persons removed, for the third time, the Serbian and EU flags from a building in Budapest which hosts the offices of several Serb minority institu