Kragujevac, Serbia News

The year is ending on a high note for one Serbian factory. A Zastava worker on the production line at the plant in Kragujevac.

Italian carmaker Fiat on Wednesday became a majority owner of Serbian car manufacturer Zastava, Belgrade media reported.

Fiat officials are expected to sign an annex agreement with the Serbian government for taking over majority ownership of the Kragujevac-based Zastava.

The National Bank of Serbia has stated that the overall economy shrank by 3% in the quarter.

Belgrade daily Danas writes that Italian carmaker Fiat is once against postponing its move into the Zastava factory in Kragujevac.

Diplomats Gather from East and West on Bosnia 06 November 2009 Less than 24 hours after the visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Bosnia, his British counterpart David Miliband is expected to arrive and add his voice to the diplomatic efforts aimed at breaking the country's political deadlock.

Belgrade Children in the town of Cacak Serbian government has announced that will urgently provide additional funds for purchasing vaccines against the A/H1N1 swine flu virus as the number of infected rapidly rises.

Serbian authorities decided yesterday to extend the autumn school holidays to stop an outbreak of the swine flu epidemic, a minister said.

No man is a prophet in his own country. As a keen churchgoer and Catholic convert, Tony Blair must be familiar with those words from the Bible a ' a proverb that applies closely to his own situation this week.

Business Insight Belgrade Zastava-assembled Fiat Punto Representatives of Fiat and Serbian state-owned car factory Zastava will sign an annex to their agreement founding Fiat Automobiles Serbia in the town of Kragujevac on November 10.

Serbia and Turkey sign several agreements this week. Also in business news: The IMF mission is returning to Albania, and the IPKO Visa Prepaid Card comes to Kosovo.

Belgrade Bojana Barlovac Three more Serbian nationals were arrested on Tuesday in connection with their alleged involvement in the smuggling of over two tons of cocaine from South America.

A Kraljevo woman infected with swine flu has died in the Kragujevac Emergency Center, according to doctors.

Belgrade Bojana Barlovac H1N1 virus under microscope Serbian health officials have confirmed the country's first fatality from the H1N1 virus.

Serbian authorities confirmed that a 46-year-old woman died of the A/H1N1 virus on Wednesday, in the Balkan country's first death from the deadly novel flu.

When Greenfield playwright Milan Dragicevich and a company of nearly two dozen area residents bring his play, ''Milosevic at the Hague,'' to Serbia for an international theater festival next week, it will thrust the work into the heart of the site of a 1990s conflict where thousands died in ethnic strife and war.

Negotiations continued on Tuesday in Belgrade between Serbian government officials and a delegation of the International Monetary Fund .

Serbs can still trade in their old cars. Also this week: Albania sees an increase in tourists and Greece's inflation rate is up.

A Turkish research team says it has developed a nanotech-based material which could be used for an "invisibility cloak". Also in science news: Romania launches a lab for measuring cell phone radiation.

Coordinator of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Dusan Janjiae, said that visa liberalization is not possible for residents of Kosovo currently.