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Zivkovic, however, was investigated on suspicion of organising the participation of Serb fighters in the war. He was arrested in August last year in the southern Serbian town of Krusevac but on June 12 the local prosecutor's office told BIRN it had suspended the investigation against him, without specifying why.

Underachieving players and lost points due to crowd trouble have kept Serbia from qualifying for the last three major tournaments. But everyone got their act together for this qualifying cycle, and the Serbians put together an impressive run in their group, finishing on top of the Republic of Ireland, Wales, and Austria.

Two opposition members of the Serbian National Assembly have asked for a group of protesters to be allowed to attend Tuesday's session from the balcony.

But Assembly President Maja Gojkovic denied this request filed by deputies Zoran Zivkovic and Marinika Tepic (NS).

BELGRADE – It has been officially confirmed that the fire which engulfed the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan during the Easter holidays was not started deliberately, Serbia’s Consul General in New York Mirjana Zivkovic told the national broadcaster RTS after talking with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday evening. Zivkovic

Serbian police detained more than 15 people on Friday in several towns and cities on suspicion of involvement in identity theft and forging IDs.

They are suspected of involvement in a scam to use forged IDs, including that of Andrej Vucic, the Prime Minister's brother, in order to register "phantom" companies that were later used for financial fraud.

Anniversary of assassination of PM Zoran Djindjic

BELGRADE -- The first democratically elected Prime Minister of Serbia and DS party leader Zoran Djindjic was assassinated this day in 2003, in front of the government.

For more than a decade, every March 12 raises the same question - where would Serbia be today if Djindjic were alive?

ID card of PM's brother was "forged" - minister

BELGRADE -- Nebojša Stefanović says the police have determined "irrefutably" that the ID card of Andrej Vučić, the brother of PM Aleksandar Vučić, was a forgery.

Stefanović stressed that this ID card was then used to register the Asomakum company.

BELGRADE - After the abandonment of a football match between Serbia and Albania that followed the appearance of a drone with a flag depicting the so called Greater Albania, massive hacker attacks organized by Albanians were carried out against Serbian news websites, Zoran Zivkovic, president of the Association of Information Security Serbia, has said.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic presented Tuesday over RSD 6 million to members of the Defence Ministry and the Serbian Armed Forces, whose homes were damaged in May flooding.

DS and NS: Is the timing right to host Putin?

BELGRADE -- DS and NS Members of Parliament assessed that there is no doubt if Serbia should host such a "great leader" as Vladimir Putin, but questioned the timing of it.