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"25 ambassadors, consuls to be appointed"

BELGRADE -- Serbia currently has some 25 unfilled ambassadorial and consular positions abroad, but plans to appoint heads of these offices by the end of the year.

Serbians win 5 medals at Canoe World Championships

MOSCOW -- Serbia won three medals on the last day of the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (WC) in Moscow, and a total of five during the competition.

The country's most successful athletes were Nebojša Grujić and Marko Novaković, who won the men’s K-2 200m event.

Serbia's Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic, said that Serbia is about to appoint 20 new ambassadors, including to US and China, in the next four months.

The initial plan was to appoint ten new ambassadors to posts in July. However, Dacic told the daily newspaper Danas on August 8 that there had been a delay after the ministry realised the number needed to be doubled.

By Stefan Riecher

Germany probably underperformed Spain last quarter for the first time in more than five years as the euro-area recovery almost ground to a halt.

“I fully understand the reasons that prompted you to take the decision to impose an embargo on EU agricultural products. However, on behalf of the Greek people, who are going through a period of extreme hardship, I appeal to your humane feelings to think again over your decision toward the Greek farmers.”

MOSCOW - Serbia won three medals on the last day of the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (WC) in Moscow, its most successful athletes being Nebojsa Grujic and Marko Novakovic, who won the men’s K-2 200m event.

Romanian sportsmen Liviu Alexandru Lazar Dumitrescu and Victor Mihalachi conquered the world title and the gold medal in the C-2 1,000 meters canoeing race on Sunday at the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Moscow.

BELGRADE - A great friend of the Serbian people, world-renowned criminologist and forensic scientist, university professor Archibald Reiss died in Belgrade 85 years ago, on August 8, 1929.

Police in Greece on alert after terrorist's capture

By Costas Kantouris

Germany made headlines this week by letting Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One chief, pay $100 million to end his bribery trial. In Greek justice, money talks in a different way: Some inmates jailed for minor offenses are allowed to buy their freedom - at an average rate of five euros per day.