SERBIA: Residents in several cities and towns across Serbia blocked traffic and stood in silence for 15 minutes today to commemorate the 15 victims of a roof collapse in the country’s north three weeks ago.

Hundreds took to the streets eight minutes before noon, at the exact time when the outer roof on the railway station building in the city of Novi Sad collapsed on November 1.

CHINA: Higher tariffs on Chinese exports will backfire, just increasing prices paid by consumers, while China can manage to weather the impact of such “external shocks,” a senior Commerce Ministry official said today in Beijing.