Nis, Serbia News

Two people have died in a car crash early this morning near Vranje, in southern Serbia.

A passionate campaigner against cruelty to animals is holding a charity fundraiser in Pebsham on Sunday July 19.

Albania Poll Considered "Marked Progres" In a joint statement issued on Monday, the international election observer missions for Sunday's parliamentary poll concluded that Albania's election process demonstrated "marked improvements" but did not yet meet international standards.

Prime Minister Sali Berisha, of Albaniaa TMs Democratic Party, has a comfortable lead on his Socialist rival Edi Rama, according to three exit polls published after Sundaya TMs parliamentary elections.

Bulgarian court police escort Kosovo's former prime minister Agim Ceku into the Kyustendil courtroom.

Serbia said on Wednesday that it had sent a request to Bulgaria for the extradition of Agim Ceku, a former prime minister of Kosovo wanted in Serbia on war crimes charges.

The Serbian interior minister will begin a two-day visit to Moscow on Thursday, the Balkan country's Beta news agency reported.

Stressed by a recent horrific murder that took place in front of social workers, Russell and Jelena made a blog about their struggle with the Serbian legal system to protect Jelena's child from her former drug addict husband.

Belgrade Serbian Railways Strikers continue to block international trains from passing through Serbia on the Lapovo railway line, demanding unpaid wages.

Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council re-appointed former Deputy Interior Minister Roumen Andreev to his former position of deputy director of the National Investigation Service , Bulgarian daily Dnevnik said.

NIS Managing Director Kyril Kravchenko says that the company is owed EUR 329mn by Serbian companies, and that the biggest debtors are public companies.

According to the findings of independent accountants, NIS's losses in 2008 totaled some EUR 90mn, not EUR 41mn as first thought.

Interpol has still not reached a decision regarding warrants against BH citizens Belgrade Roma children in Nis, Serbia.

Serbian diplomats were meeting with Turkey's aviation authorities Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to settle a row which threatens Serbia's summer tourist trade to Turkey's beaches, local newspapers said.

Serbia and its former province of Kosovo lie somewhat off Europe's beaten tourist path.

According to daily Politika's unofficial information, NIS lost some EUR 90mn in 2008, according to an auditor's report.

Belgrade Serbian Newspapers Here are the top stories in Serbiaa TMs main newspapers.

Administrators in the Serbian city of Nis called on government officials to pledge the route for the South Stream gas pipeline will not bypass their region.

Reuters Gazprom Neft agreed to a takeover offer for midsized oil company Sibir Energy, Sibir said on Tuesday, in the state's first big play for the assets of indebted tycoons.

According to data provided by Serbian hospitals, around 250 children and teenagers aged 18 or younger are diagnosed with cancer in Serbia every year, and over 70% of them can be cured.