Rivers

Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change, exposing communities to unpredictable and costly disasters, scientists warned yesterday.

A Moroccan migrant who was injured by gunfire while crossing from Turkey into Greece Thursday is being hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries, Greek officials said.

The boys who drowned in Lake Sava were students of the Traffic School in Zemun and the "Lola" Technical School in eleznik, and it is assumed that they were celebrating the end of the school year at Ada Ciganlija.

Greek authorities said Monday they had arrested five police officers from a special border guard force on suspicion of working with smugglers to help migrants cross into the country from neighboring Turkey.

Fighting in Sudan has left hundreds of thousands of Khartoum residents without running water, with some forced to risk their lives and seek it out during brief lulls in violence.

BELGRADE - The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (PKS) hosted on Thursday in Belgrade a Serbia-Romania business forum attended by 43 Serbian and 31 Romanian companies.

PKS representative Mihailo Vesovic said Serbia had welcomed a Romanian business delegation for the first time in a decade.

A German company linked to France's state-owned producer of military vehicles Nexter Systems has expressed an interest in the acquisition of the majority of the shares of the new Hellenic Vehicle Industry (ELVO), known as Hellenic Vehicle Industry.

Ukraine's deepening of a canal in the Danube Delta to boost exports is fuelling political tensions in Romania.

Slovenia's leading insurance groups, Triglav and Sava, saw a decline in profit last year despite higher revenue and gross written premiums, a development they attribute to higher claims and inflation.

Gravel exploitation on the Moraca riverbed near Montenegro's capital Podgorica. Photo: Government of Montenegro

After a National Council for Fighting against Corruption session, Abazovic said the authorities need help in protecting the Bolje sestre, an important water spring on the Moraca near the capital, Podgorica.