Blic

Two men from the village of Malosiste in southern Serbia died after being struck by lightning on Wednesday evening, the daily Blic is reporting.

The victims have been named as 47-year-old Sasa Z., and 37-year-old Marjan Z.

Serbia's Military-Security Agency (VBA) has seized a large quantity of weapons in the southern parts of the country.

According to the daily Blic, the weapons were being transported illegally to Macedonia.

The Municipal Security Council in the northwestern municipality of Sid, near the border with Croatia, had decided to shut down a local migrant reception center.

The facility in question is located near the Serbian town's railway station, Beta is reporting on Tuesday, citing Belgrade-based daily Blic.

The Belgrade-based daily Blic has started publishing articles which it says reveal "secret data about the Albanian mafia in Kosovo."

In the first installment of a series of articles, the newspaper writes that Kosovo President Hashim Thaci "heads one of the biggest criminal organizations."

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel says that his country supports Serbia's European perspective, and that the road map for this is "ready."

On the eve of his visit to Serbia, Gabriel told Belgrade-based daily Blic that Serbia recently launched impressive and bold reforms and that it is now up to Serbia to persistently walk along that path.

First Deputy PM Foreign MInister Ivica Dacic has received an invitation for participation in a conference of foreign ministers of South East Europe in Berlin.

Dacic on Tuesday received ambassadors of Germany and the Czech Republic Axel Dittmann Ivana Hlavsova who handed him a letter of invitation, the Serbian government announced.

After seven days of mass protests on the streets against the election of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as Serbian President, coverage of the protests in the media, or lack of it, is seen by some as confirmation that media is not free in the country.

The Commission Investigating of Murders of Journalists supported the authorities bringing to justice the masterminds and perpetrators of the Curuvija murder.

In addition, the commission demanded that an effort be made to make the trial of the killers of the editor and owner of former Evropljanin and Dnevni Telegraf publications more efficient.

BELGRADE - The new Serbian PM will most likely not be a Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) official, with Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) leader Ivica Dacic and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Ana Brnabic as the current frontrunners for the position, Blic reported.

Sasa Jankovic has met with his associates from the Appeal 100 Initiative to discuss the way he should continue his political activity.

A majority of those he consulted were in favor of forming a movement or a party, the daily Blic reported.