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LOZNICA - The Loznica City Council in western Serbia called at its extraordinary session on Monday for implementation of an urgent solution of the problem concerning the leak of heavy metals from the goaf of former antimony mine in Stolice.

LOZNICA -A commemoration was held at Mt. Gucevo near Loznica, western Serbia, on Sunday for the fallen in the 1914 Battle of Drina, in which members of the Serbian military tried to prevent the second Austro-Hungarian invasion of the Kingdom of Serbia.

On behalf of the Serbian government, Minister of Veteran Affairs Aleksandar Vulin laid wreaths at the memorial ossuary.

National Library hosts exhibition commemorating WW1

BELGRADE -- A visiting exhibition of the National Museum in Kruševac opened this week at the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade.

The exhibition, "The Legacy of Stevan and Stanislav Binički", is part of the events organized to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.

BELGRADE - A visiting exhibition by the National Museum in Krusevac, titled The Bequest of Stevan and Stanislav Binicki, opened on Thursday at the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade as part of the events commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.

100 years since first Allied victory in WW1

BELGRADE -- The decisive stage of the Battle of Cer, which ended as the first major Allied victory in World War I, took place in the night between August 15 and 16, 1914.

Hundreds of houses are flooded in Bosnia and Serbia, in the latest week of freak weather to have hit the region, following catastrophic floods in May.

Two persons were reported dead in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, while police in the northwestern town of Banja Luka are still looking for another two men whose vehicle was found in the area during the floods.

LJUBOVIJA - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic delivered humanitarian aid to endangered residents of the municipality of Ljubovija in western Serbia, where the situation is very bad after the recent heavy flooding, on Friday.

3,700 km of roads in Serbia damaged in floods

BELGRADE -- The catastrophic floods in Serbia damaged around 3,700 km of roads, mostly in the western and central regions of the country.

This data was revealed on Friday by the state secretary at the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Miodrag Poledica.

BELGRADE - The catastrophic floods in Serbia damaged around 3,700 km of roads, mostly in the western and central regions of the country, the state secretary at the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Miodrag Poledica said on Friday.

Landslide could collapse hill into Drina, block river

MALI ZVORNIK -- A team of experts from Belgrade's Institute of Transportation CIP will on Tuesday examine a landslide in Mali Zvornik in western Serbia, and look for solutions.