Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski on Saturday accused opposition leader Zoran Zaev of plans to topple the government by blackmail, dpa reported.
In a live broadcast, Gruievski alleged that Zaev contacted him
repeatedly, demanded his (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA -- Russian natural gas company Gazprom said a section of its planned South Stream pipeline could run through a political entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina, UPI reported.
Gazprom chief Alexei Miller met with Republika (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1432, Nov 20, 2011, SPA -- Serbia and Kosovo are to resume their
EU-sponsored talks on Monday, Belgrade's chief negotiator, Borislav
Stefanovic, was quoted as saying, according to dpa.
Belgrade walked out of the talks ahead of (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1432, Nov 10, 2011, SPA -- Two people died in a plane crash in Central Serbia on Wednesday. A Piper sport aircraft hit high-voltage Electric Power Lines and fell into the Morava River near the town of Trstenik.
One person died (...)
AlHijjah 11, 1432, Nov 7, 2011, SPA -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reviewing a $1.5 billion precautionary loan deal with Serbia.
Serbia's central bank said Monday an IMF delegation has met government officials to evaluate the latest (...)
AlQa'dah 28, 1432, Oct 26, 2011, SPA -- Police in Serbia have recovered two paintings by Pablo Picasso stolen in 2008 from a gallery in Switzerland, Reuters quoted Belgrade's interior minister as saying on Wednesday.
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic (...)
AlQa'dah 15, 1432, Oct 13, 2011, SPA -- NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo on Thursday closed an
illegal border crossing that Serbs in the Serb-dominated enclave in
northern Kosovo had opened with Serbia, in the latest move in a tense
standoff that (...)
New roadblocks were erected in northern Kosovo
early Thursday, amid growing tensions and signals that Pristina was
preparing to assert its authority over the Serb-dominated enclave, according to dpa.
Serbian national television RTS reported (...)
Serbian president Boris Tadic said Belgrade had no intention of making concessions in its policy toward the former province of Kosovo just to satisfy the European Union's requirements for membership, according to Reuters.
Taking a defiant tone (...)
Officials and residents in the Balkans are trying to cope with a near-record heat wave as temperatures soar across much of eastern Europe, with wildfires raging and some people collapsing on the streets, AP reported.
In Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, (...)
Belgrade is deeply worried about demands over
northern Kosovo that German Chancellor Angela Merkel might make
during her upcoming visit to Serbia, Belgrade media said Wednesday, according to dpa.
Previewing Merkel's first-ever visit to Serbia, (...)
Serbia and its former province Kosovo will resume
stalled talks on September 5, Belgrade's chief negotiator Borislav
Stefanovic told the national television RTS on Monday, according to dpa.
The talks, facilitated by the European Union since (...)
The NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) and Belgrade have reached an agreement to end a tense standoff in
Serb-dominated northern Kosovo after nearly two weeks, Kosovo's prime minister confirmed Friday according to dpa.
According to the (...)
A column of police jeeps possibly carrying the war crime suspect Goran Hadzic left the special court building in
Belgrade on Friday morning, dpa reported.
It was, however, not immediately clear whether Hadzic was being
transferred to the (...)
Serb war crimes suspect Goran Hadzic on Thursday waived his right to appeal his extradition to the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and could be
transferred at any time, dpa reported.
The 52-year-old, who was (...)
Serbia arrested the last major war crimes suspect from the 1990s Yugoslav conflicts on Wednesday, closing what its president called a "burdensome" page in the country's history, according to Reuters.
Goran Hadzic, a Croatian Serb wartime leader (...)
Three Turkish nationals were killed in a road
accident in Serbia early Monday, police said, according to dpa.
The accident occurred on a highway just south of Belgrade after midnight when the driver of the German-registered car lost control at (...)
Serbia's war crimes court has rejected the appeal of former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, paving the way to his extradition to the war crimes court in The Hague, a court spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday.
The Hague court indicted Mladic for (...)
War crimes suspect Ratko Mladic Tuesday was extradited to The Hague, Netherlands, UPI quoted Serbian Justice Minister Snezana Malovic as saying.
Hours after the Special Court in Belgrade rejected his appeal not to be transferred to a U.N. tribunal (...)
Serb authorities have stepped up security ahead of a nationalist rally opposing the extradition of former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic to face war crimes charges before an international court, according to AP.
Extreme right-wing groups urged (...)
Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia on Thursday after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the once-pariah state to approach the European mainstream, Reuters reported.
The general, (...)
Serbia may have its hopes for closer ties with
the European Union dashed by poor marks by a United Nations war
crimes report disclosed on Thursday, according to dpa.
Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal
Tribunal for (...)
Awwal 16, 1432 H/April 20, 2011, SPA -- Four white lion cubs have been born at the Belgrade Zoo, according to AP.
A white lioness gave birth Monday to the playful cubs, who are now important new members of the lion family at the zoo in the Serbian (...)
Akhir 27, 1432 H/April 1, 2011, SPA -- The leaders of three former Yugoslav republics agreed on Friday to join forces for business ventures in large markets such as Russia and Africa, AP reported.
Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia will combine resources (...)
Akhir 27, 1432 / April 1, 2011, SPA -- The leaders of three former Yugoslav republics are expected to discuss economic cooperation and other plans to improve ties during a meeting in central Serbia, according to AP.
Serbia's President Boris Tadic, (...)
