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The German ambassador in Montenegro, Gudrun Steinacker, on Monday said Montenegrin citizens planning to live and work in Germany illegally will "certainly fail to succeed".

She said it was difficult to obtain accurate data on the number of citizens from the north of Montenegro who had gone to Germany to find jobs but noted that "a few thousand people are being mentioned in public.

The United Arab Emirates have donated 10 tons of dates "to citizens of Novi Pazar on the occasion of the forthcoming Ramadan holiday."

Novi Pazar is the largest town of Serbia's southwestern Raska District, known informally as Sandzak, that is home to a large Bosniak (Muslim) community.

Trial resumes for group accused of IS links

BELGRADE -- A witness in the trial of a group accused of terrorism-related activities has told a Belgrade court he joined one of the accused in order to fight in Syria.

Montenegro's government has been urged to reveal how many Montenegrins are fleeing the north of the country and seeking asylum in Western Europe because of poor living conditions and unemployment.

Police in southwest "raise security" in wake of attack

NOVI PAZAR -- After Monday's terrorist attack in Zvornik, eastern Bosnia, on the border with Serbia, the police in Novi Pazar has increased security measures.

They are also "monitoring the situation on the ground," the Beta news agency reported on Wednesday.

NOVI PAZAR - Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Monday that he is ready to discuss open issues with the Bosniaks in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

NOVI PAZAR - The deadline for submitting proposals for the reis-ul-ulema of the Islamic Community of Serbia (IZS) expires on Monday, the only known candidate so far being the incumbent head Adem Zilkic, the Sandzak Meshihat of that religious community has said in a statement.

PM rules out early parliamentary election

NOVI PAZAR -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was in Novi Pazar on Monday where he said there would be no early elections held on the state level.

PRIJEPOLJE - A project aimed at using biomass for district heating in Prijepolje (southwestern Serbia) and a EUR 100 million loan were the topics of a discussion between Prijepolje Mayor Emir Hasimbegovic and officials of Germany's KFW and the climate technology initiative DKTI.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic posthumously awarded the crew of military helicopter and medical workers who died in a crash near the Belgrade airport on March 13 while rescuing a baby whose life was in danger, Nikolic's office told Tanjug on Wednesday.