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BELGRADE - Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic denied on Thursday the allegations by EU and OSCE representatives that Serbia is not prosecuting high-ranking war crimes suspects.

Pëllumb Peka owns one of only three bakeries in this former mining community of 8,000, where almost everyone bakes their own bread. Recently, however, he has also kept himself busy minting certificates about the baking abilities of locals seeking jobs in the EU.

BELGRADE - The debut film 'Nicije Dete' (No One's Child) by Serbian director and screenwriter Vuk Rsumovic will be screened at the forthcoming Venice festival, which will also be its world premiere.

No One's Child is a film based on real-life events and it recounts the fate of a boy found living among a pack of wolves in a forest in Bosnia in late 80's.

Albanian PM to visit Belgrade in September - daily

BELGRADE -- Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama will pay an official visit to Serbia in September, the Belgrade-based daily Danas has reported.

It will be the first time an Albanian high official has come to Belgrade in the past 70 years, added the paper.

ZLATIBOR - The documentary entitled Once Brothers, directed by Micheal Tolajian, won the best film award of the 3rd International Sport Film Festival in Zlatibor, southwestern Serbia.

Croatia gives weapons to Kurds in Iraq

ZAGREB -- Croatia's government, at the request of the United States, has decided to give surplus weapons to Kurds in Iraq free of charge.

They will use it "in their fight against members of the Islamic State," writes the Zagreb-based Croatian daily Jutarnji List.

Bosnia's Council of Ministers - the government - was due to ratify a draft agreement on the border with Montenegro on Thursday.

Bosnia's Minister of Civil Affairs, Sredoje Novic, confirmed that all activities towards reaching an agreement on the border between the two neighbours were now finished.

BELGRADE - The growing number of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Albanians turning to jihad is an alarming symptom of the radicalization of Islam in the Balkans, especially in the territory of former Yugoslavia, leading Serbian Islamologist and Orientalist Darko Tanaskovic says.

President: We would lose friends by taking sides

BELGRADE -- Tomislav Nikolić says he wishes to see an end to hostilities in Ukraine, "not only because of Serbia's specific position - but for the sake of people there."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said Wednesday that he was confident that Serbia should remain insisting on respect for international law in the Ukrainian crisis, which meant that it recognized Ukraine within the borders that made it a UN member state, something that Serbia also sought for itself.