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Nikola Mirotic, a member of the Spanish basketball team from Montenegro, has apologised for tearing up the Serbian national flag on Tuesday, angry after his team lost an important game to Italy.

The video shows Mirotic entering the tunnel after the game while fans waved a Serbian flag in front of his face.

The Prime Ministers of Serbia and Albania are to clash in a TV debate on August 31 in Vienna, following months of resurged tensions between the two leaders.

TV audiences stretching across the Balkans will have a chance to see the sparring leaders of Serbia and Albania resolve their differences on air in August.

The TV duel in Vienna between Edi Rama and Aleksandar Vucic follows a series of public rows between the two Prime Ministers.

A new, magnitude 3 earthquake - the fourth in the last 24 hours - has been recorded in Montenegro at around 11:00 hours CET.

The epicenter was 13 kilometers southeast of Podgorica, as had been the case with the previous three tremors, the Montenegrin seismological authority has said.

20 sniper rifles and "a considerable amount of ammunition" have been stolen from a police warehouse located in the former Center of Security Podgorica building.

The municipality of Berane in northern Montenegro has unanimously decided to declare Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic its honorary citizen.

The Podgorica-based daily Vijesti is reporting about this, noting that the initiative met with the support of all 35 councilors from the "Zdravo Berane" SNP-DF coalition, and those from the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS).

A teenager in Montenegro's town of Kotor whose photo published in the school paper was edited to remove an anti-NATO message has received an apology.

The Kotor Gymnasium Director Bozo Perovic apologized to Vanja Jotic and his parents, the Podgorica-based daily Vijesti is reporting.

PODGORICA - Buducnost is just a step away from the Adriatic Basketball Association (ABA) League finals after defeating Cedevita 81-76 (26-24, 13-15, 22-20, 20-17) in Podgorica on Wednesday evening to claim a 2-0 lead in the semifinal series.

On Tuesday, Buducnost claimed a 82-81 win, and it needs one more victory over Cedevita to reserves a spot in the Euroleauge next year.

PODGORICA - Buducnost Podgorica have taken a 1-0 lead in their ABA basketball league play-off semi-final series after beating Cedevita Zagreb 82-81 (20-23, 19-21, 20-16, 23-21) at home late Tuesday.

Buducnost beat Cedevita for the first time this season despite trailing them for most of the game.

BELGRADE - The City of Belgrade will host the Capital Summit 2015 on April 23 bringing together leaders of 12 cities of central and southeast Europe, senior officials of the European Commission and the European Parliament, representatives of international organizations and diplomatic corps and businessmen, reads a statement issued by the City Administration on Wednesday.