Dec 19 Serbia’s ruling populists say weekend elections were fair despite international criticism and protests By Jovana Gec, Associated Press Serbia’s ruling populists are insisting that weekend snap elections were free and fair, but international observers have noted multiple irregularities. Continue reading
Dec 18 Serbia’s opposition takes to the streets claiming election fraud in Sunday’s vote By Jovana Gec, Associated Press International monitors have said that Serbia's tense weekend snap vote was held in "unjust conditions" and they urged the authorities to investigate reports of irregularities as opposition supporters took to the streets to protest. Continue reading
Dec 17 Serbia’s ruling populist party claims sweeping victory in tense parliamentary election By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Oct 26 Serbia and Kosovo leaders break off talks without result despite EU push for improved relations By Lorne Cook, Associated Press Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Albin Kurti met with the leaders of France, Germany and Italy, plus the two EU officials supervising a stuttering "dialogue" between them. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch 1:11 News Wrap: New Yorkers begin drying out after day of intense flooding In our news wrap Saturday, New York City remains under a state of emergency after Friday’s record rainfall overwhelmed the city’s drainage system and turned roadways into rivers, and the White House is sounding the alarm about a build-up of… Continue watching
Sep 26 Serbia calls on NATO to take over policing of northern Kosovo after a deadly shootout By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Sep 25 What is behind renewed tensions between Serbia and Kosovo? By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Jul 11 WATCH: State Department holds briefing after U.S. sanctions the head of Serbian intelligence for alleged corruption By Fatima Hussein, Associated Press The Treasury Department says Aleksander Vulin is accused of involvement in illegal arms shipments, drug trafficking and misuse of public office. Continue reading
Jul 10 Former allies Serbia and Montenegro agree to repair strained relations By Jovana Gec, Associated Press The two countries formed a joint state until Montenegro split in 2006 following a referendum on independence. The former allies grew further apart after Montenegro recognized the 2008 declaration of independence of Serbia's former province of Kosovo. Continue reading
Jun 23 Serbia threatens armed intervention again in Kosovo as tension escalates By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press 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. Continue reading