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KRAGUJEVAC - The 16th Golden Spark international puppet theatre festival has begun in Kragujevac, central Serbia.

The festival, to be held from May 11 to 15, will feature 11 theatres from Serbia and all over the world, the director of the Kragujevac Children's Theatre Zoran Djoric told Tanjug on Sunday.

Serbian minister of energy visits China

BELGRADE -- Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antić is on May 12 and 13 paying a visit to China, it has been announced.

He will take part in a meeting of national coordinators of the mechanism of cooperation between the People's Republic of China and 16 Central and Easter European Countries (CEEC).

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Energy and Mining Aleksandar Antic will pay a visit to Beijing on May 12 and 13 and take part in a meeting of national coordinators of the mechanism of cooperation between the People's Republic of China and 16 Central and Easter European Countries (CEEC).

Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha on Thursday called for a parliamentary inquiry into claims that the centre-left government of Premier Edi Rama has imported oil from Teheran, breaking the UN-imposed embargo.

“The government has breached the embargo by allowing imports of oil from Iran, a grave national and international act,” Berisha said during Thursday's parliamentary session.

Former FM to become presidential adviser

BELGRADE -- Former Serbian Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkić will become an adviser to the president, and will also work in some government committees, writes a daily.

Global automobile production will increase by 21 million units by 2021, according to a forecast by IHS Automotive.

Car production has grown by 25 million units since 2009 as the industry continues to recover from the impact of the global economic recession, the analysis of IHS states.

15 years since NATO airstrike on Chinese embassy

BELGRADE -- Wreaths were laid on Wednesday at the site in Belgrade where three Chinese journalists died 15 years ago in a NATO airstrike on the Chinese embassy.

China's Ambassador to Serbia Zhang Wanxue and Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) President Ljiljana Smajlović took part in the ceremony.

BELGRADE - Ensemble of the Belgrade-based Madlenianum Opera and Theatre has set off for China with the ballet "Feast of Love" (Praznik ljubavi), directed and choreographed by Aleksandar Ilic, to take part in the 14th "Meet in Beijing" arts festival.

BELGRADE - China's Ambassador to Serbia Zhang Wanxue and Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) President Ljiljana Smajlovic on Wednesday laid wreaths at the site where three Chinese journalists died in the 1999 bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

A nationalist deputy in the Russian Duma, Mikhail Degtyarev, has warned Montenegro not to join NATO, saying the country could potentially be targeted by Russian missiles.

A Podgorica-based website, IN4S, quoted the member of the Liberal Democrat Party as saying that Montenegro would become “a legitimate target of Russian missiles” if it joined the alliance.