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NOVI SAD - Novi Sad was named the 2019 European Youth Capital in Varna, Bulgaria, on Wednesday evening.

"After winning the 2021 European Culture Capital title, Novi Sad won again in Varna, Bulgaria, and we were named the 2019 European Youth Capital. A double for Novi Sad", Mayor Milos Vucevic told Tanjug.

NOVI SAD - Only eight months remain until the next Exit Festival and the big celebration of the 50th anniversary of the famous Summer of Love 1967 and the interest for tickets is twice as big as in previous years, the organizers stressed.

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NOVI SAD - Novi Sad was named the 2019 European Youth Capital in Varna, Bulgaria, on Wednesday evening.

"After winning the 2021 European Culture Capital title, Novi Sad won again in Varna, Bulgaria, and we were named the 2019 European Youth Capital. A double for Novi Sad", Mayor Milos Vucevic told Tanjug.

Ten people have been arrested and a "huge amount of arms" found in the areas of the towns of Apatin and Sombor, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has said.

This group was selling, distributing, and using various types of weapons, he said.

SRBOBRAN - Three bears, which owner of the circus "Korona" from Srbobran tried twenty days ago to exchange for an apartment in Novi

The police have arrested a resident of Bela Crkva, a town in northwestern Serbia, on suspicion that he killed a cyclist in a hit-and run.

The accident happened on Dupljaj-Grebenac road on October 27, with the cyclist dying instantly of his wounds.

A 61-year-old woman, identified as V.S., has been found dead in the yard of her house in the town of Bela Crkva, east of Belgrade.

The body was discovered on Tuesday morning. The daily Blic is reporting that the woman was most likely killed with an ax.

KIKINDA - A 4 mln euro plant built by French metal autoparts maker Mecafor was opened in Kikinda, northern Serbia, Thursday.

The ribbon was cut by Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic, French Ambassador Christine Moro and Kikinda Mayor Pavle Markov at a ceremony also attended by Mecafor owner and president of the board of directors, Nicholas Grosdidier.

NOVI SAD - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic opened in Novi Sad on Thursday the 5th European Congress of Neurosurgeons on controversies in neurotraumatology.

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BELGRADE - Next year, the residents of Banstol, a small town in Serbia, will have built a new church which, though officially dedicated to Mary Magdalene, is actually being built in honor of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sputnik Serbia reported.