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Montenegro is to sign a cross-regional declaration with Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, committing the country to finding the bodies of 61 people still missing since the 1990s wars.

BELGRADE - Passenger vehicles have to wait 5 hours to exit Serbia at the Batrovci crossing along the border with Croatia, while the wait at the Horgos crossing, which leads to Hungary, is around 4 hours, the Interior Ministry office for media relations said on Sunday.

Washington has urged Moscow to stop its "extremely dangerous and provocative" activities after Ukraine said it had destroyed part of a Russian military convoy that entered its territory.

Washington has urged Moscow to stop its "extremely dangerous and provocative" activities after Ukraine said it had destroyed part of a Russian military convoy that entered its territory.

The South Stream pipeline project designed to carry Russian natural gas to the European Union bypassing Ukraine will probably remain on hold for years, Bloomberg has reported.

BELGRADE - If Serbia was to introduce sanctions for Russia, it would be like shooting itself in the leg, Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Serbia Alexander Chepurin said in an interview for the Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti.

Serbia would harm itself with sanctions - ambassador

BELGRADE -- If Serbia imposed sanctions against Russia it would "shoot itself in the foot," Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin has told the daily Večernje Novosti.

The most popular destinations among Bulgarian online users this summer are London, Barcelona and Istanbul, a survey of trivago.bg shows.

Although it is the most expensive destination in the top ten list with average prices of EUR 209 per night, London has been the most popular search on the platform, Dnevnik notes.

A Russian convoy of 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine set off on Tuesday amid Western warnings against using help as a pretext for an invasion.
   

By Paul Tugwell & Nikos Chrysoloras

Greece’s hopes of a 2014 exit from its deepest recession in a half-century may hit a stumbling block after Russia banned European Union food imports in retaliation for sanctions stemming from the insurgency in Ukraine.

BELGRADE - Serbian police arrested Petar Ladjevic, a Serb refugee now living in Brcko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, at the border crossing with BiH on an international warrant for an alleged war crime, President of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta said on Friday.