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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Serbia has been cancelled after countries around Serbia closed their airspace to his aircraft, a senior foreign ministry source told the Interfax news agency on Sunday. The source confirmed a Serbian media report that said Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro had closed their airspace to the plane that would have carried Moscow's top diplomat to Belgrade on Monday. "Our diplomacy has yet to master teleportation," the source said.

The fuel tax reduction has been in effect since midnight — and it has led to significantly lower prices at many petrol stations across Germany. Press agency DPA evaluated the prices at 400 petrol stations in Munich, Berlin and Hamburg between 6 am and 7 am on Wednesday, with the help of data from Germany’s biggest car club, the ADAC. Although not all petrol stations lowered their prices significantly, the vast majority showed a clear difference just a few hours after the tax cut, DPA said. […] … DPA’s flash analysis of prices found that a liter of Super E10...