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GNJILANE - Unknown attackers threw two Molotov cocktails at the house of the Serb family Nojic in the city of Gnjilane, southwest Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), during the night between Friday and Saturday.

Nobody was injured but damage was caused to the house in the attack, according to reports by local TV Plus from Silovo near Gnjilane.

BELGRADE - The European Commission (EC) wants to see Serbia among the first countries to become new members of the European Union (EU), European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopulos has said.

Bulgaria's Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova assured that the winter maintenance of the roads has already been provided for.

She told the Darik national radio that the contracts with the road cleaning companies have been signed and all necessary supplies for gritting and deicing are stocked.

Famous Dutch violinist and orchestra leader Andre Rieu, dubbed the "King of Waltz", announced a fourth concert in Bucharest on June 11, after his previously scheduled three shows in Bucharest next year saw a record-high number of 33,000 tickets sold, a release to AGERPRES informs.

A surprising Russian proposal to construct a new natural gas pipeline from Russia to Europe via Turkey in order to bypass both Ukraine and Bulgaria is still one of leading issues being discussed in the relevant capitals.

What comes to your mind when you think about the Middle East? For me, it’s the low level of connectivity. Here, we have a region composed of "clammed up" countries, but whoever crammed them together also managed to do so in such a way that they are not entirely disconnected from each other. Each exists in its own shell.

By Stathis Kousounis

The bad press Greece has received in the last week owing to possible political and economic developments has had an immediate impact on tourism bookings for 2015, according to the president of the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises (SETE), Andreas Andreadis.

BELGRADE - State Secretary with the Interior Ministry of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Bakir Dautbasic said Friday that the departures of citizens of Western Balkan countries to join wars in foreign countries, notably Syria and Iraq can be prevented by regional cooperation.

BELGRADE - Ambassador of the UK to Serbia Denis Keefe handed a British honorary award to historian and professor Slobodan Markovic for his long-time contribution to the improvement of research and scientific cooperation and wider social relations between Serbia and the UK.

BELGRADE - European Commissioner for Justice Vera Jourova expressed the belief on Friday that Serbia would find a solution to the issue of lawyers' strike on a national level.