POZEGA

Seventy-eight years ago, on April 22, 1945, brothers Mate and Stjepan Zukolo were among around 600 prisoners who took part in a major breakout from the main part of the Jasenovac concentration camp and death camp complex.

As the prisoners stormed the gate, attacking the guards with bricks and planks, the Zukolo brothers were immediately separated in the commotion.

The drugs were found in 52 packages hidden in an Uzice license plates car stopped in the village of Mrcajevci, near Cacak, late on Tuesday.

An aerial bomb of "huge destructive power" has been found in Sevarice, near the town of Pozega, in western Serbia.

The Belgrade-based newspaper Blic is reporting this on Thursday, noting that an ammunition plant is currently being built at the location.

POZEGA - Stability is the key word for Serbia, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday.
    
"That is why I will fight against any attempt at destabilization," the prime minister told reporters after laying a cornerstone for an ammunition plant in Uzici near Pozega.
    

POZEGA - President Tomislav Nikolic unveiled in Pozega on Thursday a monument to Prince Milos Obrenovic, leader of the Second Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman rule.

The monument was unveiled to mark the two hundred years since the uprising, which broke out on April 23, 1815 in Takovo.

BELGRADE - This year's World Poetry Day(s) will be held in Belgrade and Pozega from March 20 to 23, bringing together numerous authors from Serbia and abroad.

In 1999, UNESCO proclaimed March 21 as World Poetry Day which has been celebrated in Serbia since 2001.

This 15th event in a row has several program units that cover both contemporary and classical poetry.

The 49-year-old Bosnian citizen, sought by Austrian authorities, is believed to be part of an Austrian-based network that has been recruiting people from the Balkans and organizing their transfer to battlefields in Iraq and Syria.

BELGRADE - Famous basketball coach Aleksandar Petrovic died on Monday at the age of 56 after a long disease.

Petrovic was born in Pozega on October 14, 1959 and during his career, he coached Belgrade-based Radnicki, Hemofarm, FMP, Lokomotiv - Rostov, UNICS, Zalgiris and Azovmash.

POZEGA – Taking place for the ninth time, the International Student Film Camp Interakcija and the International Documentary Film Master Class Interdoc will kick off in Pozega, a town 180 km southwest of Belgrade, this week, with the participation of 38 young cineastes from 21 countries.

POZEGA - Chinese investors are interested in Serbia's fruit farming, Dragan Glamocic, Serbia's outgoing minister of agriculture, stated in Budimka factory in Pozega, which he visited on Wednesday together with investors from China.

“Potential investors from China are interested in Serbia's fruit farming sector,” Glamocic said.