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Kyiv on Aug. 25 said its forces were clashing with an armoured column that crossed the border from Russia as Moscow ramped up tensions ahead of crunch talks by pledging to send in a new aid convoy.
      

Prime Minister Victor Ponta said on Monday that Romania's position as regards the situation in Ukraine is of full and unconditional support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of this state.

Russia readies another humanitarian aid convoy

MOSCOW -- Russia wants to soon send another convoy of humanitarian aid to Ukraine - even though the tensions raised by the first shipment have not yet subsided.

Several dozen ethnic Serbs and representatives of pro-Serbian parties in Montenegro protested on Sunday in front of the Ukrainian embassy in Podgorica, saying that they wanted to show solidarity with their “Russian brothers in Novorossiya” – the separatists’ name for parts of eastern Ukraine that they are trying to seize from Kiev.

Russia approves import of dairy products to Customs Union

MOSCOW -- Russian food safety authority Rosselkhoznadzor has allowed the import of dairy products from Serbia to countries of the Customs Union.

They include the Russian Federation, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Vučić: We need more German investments

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić called on German investors Sunday to increase their investment in Serbia.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said it has brought down an Israeli stealth drone above the Natanz uranium enrichment site in the centre of the country.
      
"A spy drone of the Zionist regime (Israel) was brought down by a missile... This stealth drone was trying to approach the Natanz nuclear zone," the corps said in a statement on its official website sepahnews.com.

BERLIN - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic called on German investors Sunday to increase their investment in Serbia.

We need more German investment in the automotive and agricultural industry, Vucic told German news magazine Focus, ahead of the Conference of Western Balkan States to be held Thursday in Berlin at the initiative of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Turkish national women’s volleyball team ended the FIVB World Grand Prix Finals on fourth spot after a four-set victory over Belgium at Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, as Brazil won the title on Aug. 24.

Turkey rallied from losing the first set 26-24 to take thre next three sets 25-21, 25-23 and 25-20 to end the tournament on fourth spot.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on September 1 in Brussels to agree a framework for renewed nuclear talks, Iran said on Aug. 24.