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Balkan drug lord Dragoslav Kosmajac was arrested in Belgrade early on Sunday.

Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic announced at an extraordinary press conference that 61-year-old Kosmajac and seven of his accomplices had been arrested in a police operation, adding that they would remain in custody for a period of up to 48 hours.

More and more children, especially small children up to two years old, are diagnosed with myopia, which is why parents should keep them away from phones, tablets and TV screens, Dr. Adriana Stanila, chairwoman of the Romanian Contact Lens Society and the Romanian Society of Cornea and Ocular Surface, told AGERPRES on Friday.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon launched Oct. 30 a global campaign to end the often deadly practice of female genital mutilation within a generation, as survivors said it had "shattered" their lives.
      
"The mutilation of girls and women must stop in this generation, our generation," Ban said on a visit to the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
      

A 33-year-old man from Galati (north-east of the Capital), who on Oct. 18 had returned home from Equatorial Guinea, a country hit by Ebola epidemic, was urgently taken to Bucharest Victor Babes Hospital of Infectious and Tropical Diseases on Tuesday.

Two more people died on Friday from complications brought on by flu, taking to 58 the total number of deaths this season, according to the Greek Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO).

Thirty of those who have died passed away during the last three weeks, while another 124 people have received treatment in intensive care units.