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The President of India will stay in Serbia until June 9.
The President of Serbia presented the guest with a bouquet of flowers as a sign of welcome.

"I welcomed Droupadi Murmu. I am looking forward to this historic meeting that will further strengthen the friendship between Serbia and India," Vui wrote on Instagram.

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BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday he looked forward to a historic meeting with Indian President Droupadi Murmu, whom he welcomed at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport earlier in the day.

In a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram account, Vucic wrote the meeting with Murmu would "affirm the Serbia-India friendship further."

The search for survivors of the deadly train crash in India ended on Sunday and rescuers do not expect to find any more survivors, Reuters reported.

At least 275 people were killed and more than 1,200 injured in India's worst rail disaster in two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of the accident, which happened around 7 p.m. local time on Friday.

More than 280 people were killed in the crash between two passenger trains in the Indian state of Odisha, and about 900 were injured. The death toll is expected to rise, local authorities have warned.

More than 200 ambulances were dispatched to the scene, and more than 100 medics were additionally mobilized.

Türkiye's crude steel production declined by 20.6 percent in April compared with the same month of 2022, according to data from the World Steel Association (worldsteel).

With its output at 2.7 million tons, Türkiye was the world's ninth-largest producer of crude steel.

Romance Istanbul Hotel in Istanbul was ranked seventh in the U.S.-based online reservation portal Tripadvisor's list of the top 10 hotels determined as per visitors' recommendations, while the megacity's White House Hotel was also selected as the "best small hotel" for the second time.

A deal between the Turkish Exporters' Assembly (TİM) and Turkish Airlines on cargo shipment has produced good results, helping companies boost their exports.

Under the deal, Turkish Airlines offers up to a 30 percent discount on cargo fees, which resulted in a 23 percent increase in export volume.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) will guide nations in their energy and climate policies and lay out a road map, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol has said.

Birol addressed leaders who gathered for the 49th G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, last week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky huddled with some of his biggest backers at the Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima on Sunday, hoping to add to the momentum for his country's war effort even as Russia claimed a symbolic victory on the battlefield.

President Joe Biden's departure Wednesday to the G7 in Japan was meant to launch a geostrategic masterclass on rallying the world's democracies against China. Instead, he will limp into an abruptly truncated journey facing concerns that the US debt ceiling row is about to tear up the global economy.