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Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has withdrawn a television advert in China featuring a mother who threatened to disown her unmarried daughter after it unleashed a wave of criticism on social media for being sexist and insulting single women.

The construction of the subway, which will reach the metropolitan districts of Slatina and Geo Milev, will start in four years.

It is planned to be an extension of line 3, which is currently under construction, announced the head of Metropolitan Eng. Stoyan Bratoev to Darik.

The Swedish furniture giant, IKEA, plans to invest in neighboring Serbia over EUR 200 million over the next five years, according to a news release by Western Labor Minister Zoran Djordjevic.

The company has already invested EUR 60 million in the country and hired 330 employees for its Belgrade site, which started work about a month ago.

On the seventh season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” whether Jon Snow is facing brushes with death in battles against White Walkers or winning the heart of the Dragon Queen, he is doing it in style.

Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday took part in the opening ceremony of IKEA's first Serbia store, saying that the arrival of the Swedish giant "makes him proud."

The president told reporters that "talks are already underway" with the company's management about achieving "a much higher volume of manufacturing for the global market in Serbia."

Aleksandar Vucic's article, published on Wednesday in Serbian tabloid Alo, linked the upcoming opening of the new IKEA store to what he described as his own government's success.

"IKEA does not exist where there is no desire to think and work in a new, different way," Vucic wrote in the article.

Sweden's furniture retailer IKEA has installed "the IKEA tower" - a 45-meter tall symbol of its store at Bubanj Potok, near Belgrade.

This "symbolically announced the end of works" on this store, the first the company has built in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic met with Swedish Parliament Speaker Urban Ahlin on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations, Serbia's EU path and economic cooperation between the two countries, to be significantly enhanced by the opening of a new IKEA outlet in Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Monday spoke on the phone with Swedish PM Stefan Loefven, who congratulated him on winning last week's presidential elections.

The vast neighborhood of Mladost should break away from Bulgaria's capital Sofia and turn into a city of its own, the local mayor Desislava Ivancheva suggested last week, in what later turned out to be a financial dispute.