Europe

KRALJEVO - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic declared open a bridge in Kraljevo on Friday, which will be named Glavcic's Bridge after its sponsor Milomir Glavcic, a Serb from Canada, who donated EUR 1 million for its construction.

BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic received outgoing Hungarian Ambassador to Serbia Oscar Nikovic for a farewell visit Friday and expressed gratitude to him for fruitful cooperation between Serbia and Hungary during his term of office in Belgrade.

NATO on Friday agreed to open intensified talks on Montenegro's candidacy and will assess by the end of 2015 whether to invite Montenegro to join the Western military alliance.

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SMEDEREVO - The construction of a new, 19,200-square-metre production plant for the Finnish PKC Group, which makes cable harnesses for commercial vehicles, began on Friday in Smederevo, a city in north-eastern Serbia situated on the banks of the Danube River.

Kiev officials and representatives of pro-Russian rebels have signed a ceasefire agreement at their meeting in Minsk.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Sept. 5 his envoy had signed a "preliminary" truce deal with pro-Russian rebels aimed at halting five months of fighting that has claimed 2,600 lives.

The instability and the conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East and North Africa change dramatically the security environment in Europe, Bulgaria's president Rosen Plevneliev said on Friday at the ongoing NATO summit in Wales.

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Warring sides in Ukraine agree on ceasefire

MINSK -- Representatives of Ukraine and the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk have signed a protocol on a ceasefire, reports RT.

The truce should begin at 18:00 local time.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed that agreement was reached on a ceasefire, the BBC reports.

The National Cinema Council has picked Bulgarian Rhapsody as the Bulgarian movie to participate in the race for 2014's Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Bulgarian Rhapsody, a co-production with Israel is the last part of a trilogy directed by Ivan Nichev dedicated to the rescue of Bulgarian Jews during WWII.

Istanbul’s newest music festival GNCFEST’14 will bring together American rapper Pharrell Williams, Romanian singer Inna and British singer and actress Rita Ora at ITÜ Stadium in Istanbul on Sept. 7.