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Border zone reinforced as 5 police die in Macedonia clashes

RISTOVAC, KUMANOVO -- Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Saturday that the police were doing everything to preserve stability and security of citizens.

BELGRADE - Thirty Serbian nationals have gone to fight in the zone of armed conflicts in Syria and Iraq, some of whom have taken their families with them, Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Wednesday.

Some ten thousand pupils and students on Thursday demanded the resignation of Macedonia's Education Minister, Abdualaqim Ademi, and a halt to externally controlled state-run graduation exams.

Macedonian journalists have condemned the death threat issued to a prominent TV reporter, Borjan Jovanovski.

A funeral wreath with the words "Final Greetings" written on it was delivered to his family home on Tuesday evening while Jovanovski himself was out.

Protesting school pupils in Macedonia, angered by plans to introduce externally controlled state-run graduation exams, have urged sympathisers to join their central protest planned for Thursday.

The protest rally, dubbed "Stop the bad reforms in education", comes after a boycott of classes that began in early April.

BAKU - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic started Tuesday his two-day official visit to Azerbaijan by a meeting with President Ilham Aliyev, at which the two officials pointed to determination to strengthen mutual relations.

Vucic and Aliyev discussed cooperation in the field of infrastructure, military industry, energy and agriculture.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Friday that 16 people had been arrested and two were still being searched for as suspects of founding seven phantom companies and money laundering by identity theft.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta and Chinese Ambassador Xu Feihong attended on Tuesday the opening of a works site in Craiova, where a Chinese company builds a residential neighbourhood.

Photo credit: (c) Nicolae BADEA / AGERPRES PHOTO

The project is a pilot investment in Romania, the first signed by a local administration with a Chinese company.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic met on Friday with Russian Ambassador Alexander Chepurin to discuss closer cooperation in the internal affairs sector, particularly concerning the fight against terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade Rasim Ljajic and Turkish Minister of Customs and Trade Nurettin Canikli agreed on Thursday that there is a lot of room to expand the scope of the two countries' exchange of goods, adding that the total exchange sum could soon reach EUR 1 billion.