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VIENNA - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic, Austrian Federal Minister of Justice in Vienna Wolfgang Brandstetter and justice ministers from five countries from Central Europe conferred with Federal President of Austria Heinz Fisher on Friday concerning judiciary reforms.

VIENNA - Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic, who is visiting Austria with the Serbian delegation, conferred with Austrian Federal Minister of Justice in Vienna Wolfgang Brandstetter in Vienna on Friday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan argues that the American continent was discovered by Muslim sailors some 300 years before Christopher Columbus – and that Muslims had even built a mosque atop a hill near the Cuban shore.

"Even Serbia and Russia wouldn't recognize RS"

VIENNA -- Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Mladen Ivanic says he is confident that "not even Serbia would not recognize the possible independence of the RS."

VIENNA - By a decree of Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Gordana Popovic, a Negotin, Serbian-born scientist, has received a senior order of the Republic of Austria.

She became the first Serbian woman to be awarded the Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class, established in 1887.

BELGRADE - State Secretary with the Interior Ministry of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Bakir Dautbasic said Friday that the departures of citizens of Western Balkan countries to join wars in foreign countries, notably Syria and Iraq can be prevented by regional cooperation.

BELGRADE - The Musical Confederation of France has chosen a sonata for bassoon and piano by Serbian composer Ivan Jevtic as a exam piece for students of third degree.

Jevtic has told Tanjug said that the final year students will be performing his sonata for bassoon and piano as an exam piece in 2015.

Jevtic's sonata has been published by Le chant du monde.

Belgrade's 76th hotel unveiled

BELGRADE -- The Radisson Blu Old Mill opened in Belgrade on Tuesday, with Mayor Siniša Mali declaring he expected it "to boost the hotel supply in the Serbian capital."

According to him, the city is "becoming increasingly attractive to tourists."

BELGRADE - A new hotel, Radisson Blu Old Mill, has opened in Belgrade, and Mayor Sinisa Mali expects it to boost the hotel supply in the Serbian capital, which he says is becoming increasingly attractive to tourists.

The skating rink, which opened on Friday in King Tomislav Square between the main railway station and Zagreb's arts pavilion, is modelled on one that stood in the same place while Croatia was a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

The authorities tried to simulate the 19th century rink existed by using lanterns to light it by night.