World Sep 01 Tens of thousands demand justice and protest against populist rule in Serbia Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has been threatening a major crackdown against those who have been protesting his populist rule.
World Mar 15 More than 100,000 protestors rally in Belgrade against Serbia’s president and government The rally was part of a nationwide anti-corruption movement that erupted after a concrete canopy collapsed at a train station in Serbia's north in November, killing 15 people.
World Aug 29 Serbia announces $3 billion deal to buy 12 French fighter jets, in shift away from relying on Russia The announcement was made during a joint news conference in Belgrade with French President Emmanuel Macron during a two-day visit to Serbia as part of what French officials have called a strategy of bringing Serbia closer to the European Union.
World Jun 29 Attacker shot dead after firing crossbow at police officer outside Israel’s embassy in Serbia An attacker with a crossbow wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade on Saturday, Serbia’s Interior Ministry said. The officer responded by fatally shooting the assailant.
World Feb 02 Serbia will seek a UN Security Council meeting over latest escalating tensions with Kosovo Kosovo’s government has banned banks and other financial institutions in the Serb-populated areas from using the dinar in local transactions. Kosovo’s Central Bank issued the new rules last summer.
World Dec 17 Serbia’s ruling populist party claims sweeping victory in tense parliamentary election The main contest in the parliamentary and local elections was between President Aleksandar Vucic’s governing Serbian Progressive Party and the centrist coalition that sought to undermine the populists who have ruled the troubled Balkan state since 2012.
World Sep 26 Serbia calls on NATO to take over policing of northern Kosovo after a deadly shootout Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with ambassadors from five Western countries and the European Union two days after violent clashes between armed Serbs and Kosovo police left one officer and three gunmen dead.
World Sep 25 What is behind renewed tensions between Serbia and Kosovo? There are fears in the West of a revival of the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo that claimed more than 10,000 lives and left over 1 million homeless.
World Jun 23 Serbia threatens armed intervention again in Kosovo as tension escalates Serbia has reiterated a threat to intervene militarily in its former province of Kosovo if NATO-led peacekeepers there fail to protect minority Serbs from what Belgrade calls the terrorist threat of Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian authorities.
World May 29 Why tensions are flaring between Kosovo and Serbia Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo have flared anew this weekend after Kosovo's police raided Serb-dominated areas in the region's north and seized local municipality buildings.