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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned on Thursday the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia that they will not be part of the next round of EU enlargement if they fail to normalize relations. Speaking to reporters after meeting Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti, Borrell …

Opposition parties and rights watchdogs have long accused Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic of autocracy, stifling media freedoms, violence against political opponents, corruption and ties with organised crime. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has stepped down as leader of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) at a party congress, saying a new …

Police arrested a suspect on Friday after eight people were killed and 14 wounded in Serbia’s second mass shooting in two days in what President Aleksandar Vucic called a “terrorist attack” as the government approved tough new gun controls. The Balkan country was already reeling from a mass shooting on …

A 14-year-old boy opened fire in his Belgrade classroom on Wednesday morning, shooting dead eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a pre-planned attack and wounding seven others, Serbian officials said. Using his father’s handgun, the boy fired first at the security guard and three girls in the hallway …

Aleksandar Vucic was marking the 24th anniversary of the bloc’s bombing campaign, which killed thousands Serbians could only forget the “aggression” unleashed by the US-led NATO, in 1999, if their country ceases to exist, President Aleksandar Vucic warned on Friday. He was marking the 24th anniversary of the military bloc’s …

NATO has rejected Belgrade’s request for the deployment of Serbian troops to Kosovo amid rising tensions in the breakaway region, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has said. In a “carefully composed letter” the command of the US-led military bloc’s contingent in Kosovo (KFOR) “replied that they believe that there is no …

Serbian armed forces have been put on the “highest level of combat readiness” on the border with Kosovo amid increasingly strained relations between the two neighboring countries over recent shootings and blockades. “Serbia’s president (Aleksandar Vucic)… ordered this evening the Serbian army to be on the highest level of combat …

Europe’s worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War Two near Serbia’s river port town of Prahovo. The vessels were among hundreds scuttled along the …

The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo failed to reach a solution in a crisis meeting in Brussels on Thursday but agreed on further talks in the coming days to solve tensions between their countries, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. “Unhappily, we did not yet (come) to an agreement …

PM Pedro Sanchez said the breakaway region’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia violated international law

Serbian troops were on heightened alert Sunday at the border with Kosovo, the defense ministry said, accusing the territory of “provocations” after it deployed special police to the area. The special police units were sent to two border crossings in the north of Kosovo, an area mainly populated by minority …

Several thousand protesters used tyres, rocks, and vehicles to block roads leading to the city of Cetinje in southwest Montenegro on Saturday in a bid to stop the Serbian Orthodox Church from holding an enthronement ceremony for its new top cleric. The protests reflect tensions in the Balkan country, which …

Montenegro police said on Friday they had seized more than a tonne of cocaine, their biggest ever drug bust, concealed in a shipment of bananas, and that two people were arrested. The raid was carried out in Mojanovici, a suburb of the capital Podgorica in the tiny Adriatic country, the …

Commemoration ceremony, memorial service held in Bosnia and Herzegovina Leading political figures across the world, commemorated the 1995 Srebrenica genocide on Sunday. Bosnia and Herzegovina marked the 26th anniversary of the tragic events, bidding farewell to 19 newly identified victims of the massacre at a memorial service. Every year on …

Appeals judges will hand down a verdict against former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic on Tuesday, ending the last Bosnian genocide trial before the U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia. Mladic, 78, led Bosnian Serb forces during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. He was convicted in 2017 on charges of …

River celebrations of FC Red Star Belgrade’s national league title marred by violent clashes with rival Serbian club fans Triumphant jubilations by fans of the Serbian football club, which scored a fourth national title in a row this weekend, were marred by evening clashes with supporters of a rival team. …

UK gov’t says Radovan Karadzic, currently behind bars in The Hague, will serve the rest of his sentence in Britain. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, sentenced to life for war crimes and genocide, will serve the remainder of his sentence in a UK prison, the British government has said. …

Protests marred by violence continued on Friday in Belgrade, where thousands rallied against Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic and government policies, including its handling of the coronavirus crisis. Police in riot gear and mounted units deployed around the parliament building to prevent Vucic’s opponents from storming it. Protesters, who pelted police …

Bosnia is marking the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the only crime in Europe since World War II that has been declared a genocide, with only a small number of survivors allowed to take part in commemoration events due to the coronavirus pandemic. The brutal execution in July 1995 …

To counter a second coronavirus wave, President Aleksandar Vucic announced a new lockdown. Protesters reacted with fury at his inconsistency, amid wider anger over his strongman leadership. Thousands of Serbs demonstrated for a second consecutive night on Wednesday in response to President Aleksandar Vucic’s management of the coronavirus crisis and …