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BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic is from Sunday paying a two-day visit to Qatar, where he will address the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said in a statement.

''Montenegro is the leader in the region in terms of foreign investment,'' stated the Director of the country's Stage Agency fro Economic Restructuring and Foreign Investments, Milos Jovanovic.

In an interview for newspaper Poslovni Dnevnik, he noted that over the past eight years the volume of foreign investments in Montenegro has reached as high as EUR 5.5 M.

More than 500 die in Yemen during past two weeks

519 people, 90 of them children, have been killed in the fighting in Yemen during the past two weeks, while some 1,700 others have been wounded.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and the newly appointed Ambassador of Qatar to Serbia Sheikh Mubarak bin Fahad Jassim Mohammed Al-Thani held a meeting on Thursday, and stressed the need for an agreement on police cooperation in the fight against terrorism, people smuggling, hi-tech and other forms of organized crime.

A U.S.-led programme to train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants will start in May, Turkey's Defence Minister ?smet Y?lmaz was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency on March 31.
   

The European Union and other donors pledged more than $2 billion on Tuesday to help alleviate war-torn Syria's humanitarian crisis, which Kuwait's emir called the worst in "modern history".
      

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has accused Iran of further aggravating the conflict between Sunniis and Shiites in Yemen.

He insisted that Tehran should immediately retreat its forces from Yemen in order to alleviate the situation, as reported by the Bulgarian National Radio.

Seventeen people could have died so far in Yemen during the offensive of Saudi Arabia and regional allies early on Thursday, AFP reports citing civil defense sources.

Saudi warplanes bombed Huthi rebels in Yemen on March 26, launching a military intervention by a 10-nation coalition to prevent the fall of embattled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
      
The rebels and their allies within the armed forces had been closing in on main southern city Aden where Hadi has been holed up since fleeing the rebel-controlled capital Sanaa last month.

Yemen's Shiite militia sent reinforcements south and clashed with local fighters on March 23 after the United Nations warned the country is on the brink of a protracted civil war.