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BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received Russian Ambassador to Belgrade Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko on Thursday and informed him of the difficult situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday dissolved the Serbian parliament and called parliamentary elections for December 17.

BELGRADE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Serbian PM Ana Brnabic in Belgrade on Tuesday to discuss an EU growth plan for the Western Balkans.

"I discussed Serbia's reforms in the context of the Growth Plan with the Serbian PM," von der Leyen wrote in a post on the social media network X.

BEIJING - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Monday arrived in Beijing on an official visit to China.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohammed Al-Halbousi in Belgrade on Tuesday.

Welcoming Al-Halbousi, Dacic noted the significance Serbia attached to its relations with Iraq, based on traditional friendship, mutual trust and solidarity between the two peoples, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received the credentials of India's new Ambassador to Belgrade Shubhdarshini Tripathi on Monday and said he expected the Serbia-India political dialogue to continue to develop at a newly-established pace after intensifying to a significant extent in recent years.

KRAGUJEVAC - Serbian Minister of Information and Telecommunications Mihailo Jovanovic and Amazon Web Services General Manager for Europe Cameron Brooks signed a MoU at the Kragujevac State Data Centre on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Information and Telecommunications Mihailo Jovanovic said on Wednesday 99 pct of Serbian households would have high-speed landline Internet access by the end of 2025.

Opening the Technobank conference in Belgrade, Jovanovic also said he expected the value of Serbia's IT exports to rise from the present 2.7 bln euros to 10 bln euros by 2030.

Belgrade Higher Court told BIRN that Zvezdan Jovanovic, who shot dead Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003, is not eligible to ask for conditional release from prison until the end of 2029, despite a campaign calling for him to be freed immediately as a 'Serbian hero'.

The person was 48 years old and was staying at KBC Dragisa Misovic in Belgrade. In Serbia, three people died in one day, with a total of seven coronavirus victims.
"We expect that this week will be difficult, as well as next, there will be an increase in the number of infected, and there will be more deaths, we need to be aware of that", epidemiologist Branislav Tiodorovic said.