Vojvodina

National Assembly President Maja Gojkovic has called elections for the city assembly of Zajecar and municipal assemblies of Vrbas, Odzaci, Kovin and Kosjeric.

The voting has been scheduled for April 23.

The 3rd meeting of a Orthodox-Catholic commission set up to "clarify the role and responsibility of Alojzije Stepinac during WW2" was held in Novi Sad.

The commission was formed on the initiative of Pope Francis.

A new Knott Autoflex Yug plant manufacturing parts for car trailers was opened on Thursday in Becej, a town in Serbia's northern Vojvodina province.

Four migrants were injured early on Thursday when a stationary tank car exploded at the railway station in the town of Sid, western Serbia.

This has been confirmed by the police in nearby Sremska Mitrovica.

Nebojsa Stefanovic says there will be "dismissals" in the Novi Sad criminal investigations police unless Tuesday's incident near a school has been solved.

Stefanovic spoke after a shooting earlier in the day that took place close to the elementary, leaving one person injured.

A security vehicle transporting cash was robbed on Wednesday on a highway stretch between the towns of Pecinci and Ruma in northwestern Serbia.

The robbers took with them "several million" Serbian dinars.

Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic says he will become a presidential candidate "when elections are called, but not before."

Two young men have been discovered dead in Novi Sad; the police announced on Wednesday that both died of injuries caused by blunt objects.

The police in Novi Sad are looking for the perpetrators, while the public prosecutor has qualified the killings as grave murder.

ZAGREB/NOVI SAD - Exit Summer of Love 2017 will combine four regional festivals into a unique festival adventure, Exit Team said at a press conference in Zagreb Wednesday.

The police in Novi Sad on Wednesday brought in three minors on suspicion that they intentionally set a homeless man on fire.

The victim has since died of his injuries.