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Tensions have mounted in Serbia ahead of a major rally in support of populist President Aleksandar Vucic as he pledged to regain control following months of anti-corruption protests.
Thousands of supporters of Serbiaโs populist President Aleksandar Vucic have gathered in downtown Belgrade, a day ahead of what authorities expect to be a huge rally in his support.
Thousands of people have rallied outside a pro-government television station in Serbia accused of a propaganda campaign against university students behind months of anti-corruption protests.
Serbia's populist government is facing increased public scrutiny over reports that it used a sonic weapon against a peaceful crowd during a massive anti-corruption rally in the capital, Belgrade, on March 15.
Serbian officials are denying that security forces illegally used a military-grade sonic weapon to disperse and scare protesters at a huge anti-government rally.
At least 100,000 people have converged in Belgrade for a massive rally in the Serbian capital seen as a culmination of months-long protests against populist President Aleksandar Vucic.
At least three lawmakers were injured after chaos erupted in Serbiaโs parliament, where smoke bombs and flares were thrown.
A court in Bosnia has sentenced the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, to one year in prison and banned him from politics for six years over his separatist actions as tensions mount in the fragile Balkan state.
Supporters of separatist Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik have rallied as tensions soared on the eve of a scheduled court verdict that could order the pro-Russia Serb leader banned from politics or even sentenced to prison.
Serbiaโs striking students and supporters of populist President Aleksandar Vucic are holding parallel rallies as both mark the countryโs Statehood Day with notably contrasting messages.
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurtiโs leftist party has won the most seats in the parliamentary election.
Serbia's striking university students have blocked a bridge in Belgrade and roads throughout the Balkan country to mark 100 days since the collapse of a concrete canopy at a rail station which killed 15 people.
Serbiaโs students are leading mass protests and blockades of three bridges over the Danube river in the northern city of Novi Sad, drawing tens of thousands into the streets to express their anger with the countryโs populist leadership and to call for change.
Hundreds of students have marched through the Serbian countryside, taking their anti-graft protest to the northern city of Novi Sad, where they plan to blockade three bridges over the River Danube this weekend.
President Donald Trumpโs abrupt freeze of U.S. foreign aid is sending shockwaves through Eastern Europe.
Serbiaโs populist prime minister, Milos Vucevic, has resigned in an attempt to calm political tensions stoked by weeks of massive anti-corruption protests sparked by the deadly collapse of a concrete overhang at a recently renovated train station.
Serbiaโs striking university students have started a 24-hour blockade of a key traffic intersection in the capital Belgrade, stepping up pressure on the populist authorities over a deadly canopy collapse in November that killed 15 people.
A woman has rammed a car into a crowd of anti-government protesters in Serbiaโs capital and injured one of them as a student-led strike shut down businesses and drew thousands of people to demonstrations around the country.
Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least five trillionaires within a decade, even as the number of people in poverty has barely budged since 1990.
A driver rammed his car into a crowd and seriously injured a young woman at one of the daily student-led protests and traffic blockades that have been held throughout Serbia following the collapse in November of a concrete canopy in the countryโs north that killed 15 people.
Hundreds of Serbian students and others again blocked traffic for 15 minutes throughout the country as political tensions continue to simmer following last month's collapse of a concrete canopy that killed 15 people.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ says he isn't like ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad and has no intention of fleeing the country despite spreading protests against his increasingly autocratic rule.
Scuffles and fistfights broke out between ruling party and opposition lawmakers in Serbiaโs parliament on Monday over a deadly rail station roof collapse that has ignited tensions in the Balkan state.
Anti-government protesters in Serbia are demanding arrests and the resignations of top officials over the collapse of a railway station roof that killed 14 people in a northern city.
Protesters have thrown flares and red paint at the City Hall building in the Serbian city of Novi Sad in rage over last weekโs collapse of a concrete canopy at the railway station that killed 14 people.
Hundreds of people lit candles and left flowers on Saturday to commemorate 14 people who were killed when a concrete canopy crashed at the entrance of a railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has announced a $3 billion deal to buy 12 French warplanes, shifting his country away from its dependence on Russian arms.
Serbiaโs president has accused demonstrators who oppose a lithium mining project in the Balkan country of being part of a Western-backed โhybridโ warfare against his government and vowed to take strong legal action against those protesters who have blocked railway and road traffic in the capital a day earlier.
Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied in downtown Belgrade against lithium mining in Serbia.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised a tentative deal between the European Union and Serbia that paves the way for the disputed excavation of lithium.
An attacker with a crossbow has wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade.
Serbiaโs governing populists have declared victory at tense municipal elections in dozens of cities and towns throughout the Balkan country, including a rerun vote in the capital, Belgrade, as opposition are claiming major irregularities.
The United Nations has approved a resolution establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs.
China and European Union candidate Serbia have signed an agreement to build a โshared futureโ between the two states, making the Balkan country the first in Europe to agree on such a document with Beijing.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will spend most of his five-day tour in Europe this week in two small countries at the continentโs eastern half.
Franceโs government has presented a bill to allow adults with terminal cancer or other end-of-life illness to take lethal medication.
Serbia has sent a protest note after the Croatian foreign minister called President Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ a Russian โsatelliteโ in the Balkans.
The United States has warned that ongoing celebrations of a Bosnian Serb self-proclaimed national holiday violate Bosniaโs constitution and a 1995 peace agreement.
Serbia's military wants to reintroduce obligatory military service as tensions continue to rise in the Balkans.
Serbian police say they have detained at least 38 people who took part in a protest against reported widespread irregularities during a recent general ballot that declared the governing populists winners of the parliamentary and local councilsโ elections.
Police in Serbia have fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of opposition supporters from entering the capitalโs city council building.
Serbiaโs main opposition group has urged the European Union to help open an international investigation into reported irregularities during last weekend's election.
Serbiaโs ruling populists are insisting that weekend snap elections were free and fair, but international observers have noted multiple irregularities.
International monitors have said that Serbiaโs tense weekend snap vote was held in โunjust conditions" and they urged the authorities to investigate reports of irregularities as opposition supporters took to the streets to protest.
Serbiaโs governing populists have claimed a sweeping victory in the countryโs parliamentary election, which have been marred by reports of major irregularities both during a tense campaign and on voting day.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is pushing to reassert his populist partyโs dominance in this weekend's parliamentary and local election in the troubled eastern European country following a turbulent year that has shaken the governmentโs popularity.
When Serbia began talks to join the European Union in 2014, pro-Western Serbs were hopeful the process would set their troubled country on an irreversible path to democratization.
Serbiaโs intelligence chief has resigned after less than a year in the post saying he wanted to avoid possible further embargos against the Balkan nation.
Serbiaโs president has denied reports of a military buildup along the border with Kosovo.
Serbiaโs president has demanded that a NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo take over for the national law enforcement agency in northern Kosovo.
Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo, setting off a daylong gunbattle with police that left one officer and three attackers dead.
Kosovo is observing a day of mourning for the Kosovar Albanian police officer killed by Serb gunmen who then barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery on Sunday.
At least 30 Serb gunmen have killed a Kosovar Albanian police officer then stormed an Orthodox monastery in Kosovo near its border with Serbia, setting off ongoing gunbattles that have left three assailants dead and raised tensions between the two former wartime foes as they seek to normalize ties.
The European Union is urging Serbia and Kosovo to respect an agreement meant to end tensions between them and set their relations on a more normal path.
The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have failed again to make progress in talks meant to improve their testy ties.
Hundreds of Pride activists have gathered in the Serbian capital amid heavy police presence and anti-gay messages sent by the countryโs conservative leadership and threats by far-right groups.
Senior lawmakers from the United States and Europe are calling for a change in the Western diplomatic approach toward Serbia and Kosovo.
The leaders of the Netherlands and Luxembourg say normalizing ties between Kosovo and Serbia would serve not only regional peace and stability but also their prospects of further integration into the European Union.
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 Kosovoโs ethnic Albanian authorities.
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have staged marches in Belgrade and other Serbian towns against Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
Tens of thousands of protesters formed a ring around Serbiaโs government headquarters in downtown Belgrade on Friday, demanding the resignation of the countryโs populist president, top security officials and the โliberationโ of pro-state TV stations that they say promote violence, all in the wake of two mass shootings that stunned the nation.
Serbiaโs president has promised an early parliamentary election in an apparent attempt to defuse large protests against his populist rule in the wake of two mass shootings that shook the nation.
Thousands of people have rallied for a fifth time in a month after two mass shootings in Serbia that shook the nation, even as the countryโs populist president rejected any responsibility and ignored their demands to step down.
The leaders of France and Germany have urged new municipal elections in northern Kosovo in the hopes that another ballot will quell a flare-up of ethnic tensions that have led to violent protests in the region.
NATO will send 700 more troops to northern Kosovo to help quell violent protests after clashes with ethnic Serbs there left 30 international soldiers wounded.
The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force say that 25 of its troops were injured in the clashes with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo who were trying to take over the offices of one of the municipalities where ethnic Albanian mayors took up their posts last week.
Serbia has condemned NATO-led peacekeepers stationed in neighboring Kosovo for their alleged failure to stop โbrutal actionsโ by Kosovo police against ethnic Serbs.
Tens of thousands of people rallied in Serbia on Friday for a third time in a month in protests following two mass shootings, even as government officials in the Balkan country rejected opposition criticism of the way they handled the crisis.
Authorities say dozens of Serbian schools have received bomb threats amid security concerns following two mass shootings early this month, including one in an elementary school.
Authorities in Serbia have displayed stacks of guns and cartons of hand grenades from the thousands of weapons they say people have handed over since back-to-back mass shootings stunned the Balkan nation.
Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Serbian capital, Belgrade, and blocked a key bridge in the second large protest since two mass shootings that rattled the Balkan country and left 17 people dead, including many children.
When a 13-year-old boy last week opened fire on his fellow students in a school in Belgrade, and a day later a man killed people at random in villages south of the Serbian capital, the country came to a standstill.
The United Statesโ top international development official, Samantha Power, has pledged U.S. support to Serbia and Kosovo as the two former wartime enemies work to stabilize relations at a time of heightened tensions.
The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels on Tuesday only to agree on joint work in finding the missing persons in their talks on the implementation of a European Union-backed plan to normalize ties between the former war foes.
The Serbian president has sharply criticized Western officials mediating talks on normalizing ties with Kosovo, calling them liars and fraudsters, and says the Serb minority in the former Serbian province wonโt tolerate foreign โoccupation.โ.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have tentatively agreed on how to implement a European Union-sponsored plan to normalize their relations after decades of tensions between the two Balkan wartime foes.
Serbiaโs populist president has warned during a chaotic parliamentary session that the Balkan nation could become a European โpariahโ state if it rejects a Western plan for normalizing relations with Kosovo.
Serbia's president says that his country would face a halt in European Union integration and economic and political isolation if it rejects a new Western plan for normalizing relations with Kosovo.
Serbia's president says NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo have rejected its demand for Serbian security forces be allowed to return to the breakaway province amid ongoing tensions.
Serbiaโs President Aleksandar Vucic says Serbs will start removing their barricades in Kosovo on Thursday in a move that deescalates tensions that triggered fears of new clashes in the Balkans.
A former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army has been found guilty of arbitrarily detaining and torturing prisoners perceived as supporters of Serbia during the countryโs 1999 war of independence, and murdering one of them.
Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew during the past week after Serbs erected barricades on the main roads in the north of the former Serbian province to protest the arrest of a former Kosovo Serb police officer.
