Belgrade - Civilians in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs almost a decade after NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, local media reported Saturday.

A study by Norwegian People's Aid said that some 2,500 unexploded pieces of cluster ordnance were scattered across 15 municipalities, mainly in southern Serbia near the border with Kosovo, and the second largest city of Nis.

Belgrade - Around 20,000 Kosovan Serbs have gone for several days without electricity, in a dispute over payments with their supplier, it was reported Saturday.

According to the "Press" newspaper in Belgrade, the Serbian authorities have ordered the Serb minority in Kosovo not to pay their bills to their Albanian electricity company.

The Belgrade daily cited unnamed Serbian Kosovans as saying they now felt "betrayed" by Belgrade's advice not to pay their bills, after their electricity supply was cut off.

Belgrade - Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader visited Belgrade Friday in a bid to thaw relations which Serbia froze over Zagreb's recognition of Kosovo.

Sanader and Serbian Premier Mirko Cvetkovic acknowledged the problems burdening bilateral ties since the conflict last decade and even before, but said they were willing to work for better relations.

"We expect some issues to be resolved quickly and that some we will begin resolving in the future," Sanader told reporters after meeting Cvetkovic.

Belgrade  - More than a 1,000 visitors flocked to the opening of an exhibition in Belgrade dedicated to former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito at the weekend in a sign that fascination with the former communist is still alive nearly 30 years after his death.

The Belgrade Museum of the History of Yugoslavia unveiled the show, called the "Tito Effect" on Saturday, and attracted more than 1,000 visitors in the first two days.

Belgrade  - When one looks at Rhine from a bridge in the former German capital Bonn, one immediately thinks of a highway, with barges navigating underneath like cars running the roads, with the lighter vessels overtaking the slower one before returning to their lanes.

A look from the Pancevo bridge, which crosses Danube in the Serbian capital Belgrade, reveals swamps on one side, the city on the other - and an empty huge river underneath.

Belgrade  - A Serbian war crimes court on Thursday sentenced 13 former reservists in the ex Yugoslav army to between five and 20 years in prison for their involvement in war crimes committed in Croatia in 1991. Five other defendents were acquitted.

Former commander of Vukovar's Territorial defense Miroljub Vujovic and six other reservists were sentenced to maximum 20 years in prison for their involvement in killing of some 200 Croatian civilians at the Ovcara farm near Vukovar, eastern Croatia in November 1991.