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Defence counsel this week called for Serbia to intervene before the appeals chamber at the Hague tribunal to enforce a war criminal's right to have his murder conviction and 17-year prison sentence reviewed by a higher tribunal.

Kosovo honours a hero. To the hero the spoils? Brushing a lock of hair from her face and gazing into her eyes, the former president asks the comeliest government official to hand, "So what did you think of my speech?" No Monica she, her answer stays on the vertical and is rather better sculpted than the two and half-metre effigy just unveiled ...

VATICAN CITY, 14 NOV 2009 - The Holy See Press Office released the following two communiques at midday today: "This morning the Holy Father received in audience Boris Tadic, president of the Republic of Serbia.

Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle was buried in the churchyard of the Rakovica monastery in Belgrade on Thursday.

Serbian President Boris Tadic in a file photo. The Serbian government has said it will never recognize Kosovo even if its EU entry hinges on it.

Macedonia Troubled by Serbiaa oeNamea Statement Skopje, Belgrade Tadic [left], Ivanov [Right] at the funeral, photo by FoNet Serbia's president Boris Tadic late Thursday sought to smooth ruffled feathers, after his foreign minister Vuk Jeremic said his country supports Greece's position in the 18-year name row between Skopjeand Athens.

The Council of the European Union decided to give a mandate to the European Commission to start the preparations on the "avis" for Albania's application for EU membership.

Hundreds of thousands of people joined a somber funeral procession Thursday for Patriarch Pavle, who led the Serbian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the Balkans' bloody ethnic wars in the 1990s.

Serbian President Boris Tadic faces a fine for allegedly drinking champagne at a stadium with his sports minister and the head of the soccer federation.

Belgrade German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that Germany explicitly supports Serbia's EU integration.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed condolences to his Serbian counterpart Boris Tadic over the death of Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle, the Kremlin said Monday.

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Belgrade Vuk Jeremic, Boris Tadic and Gwido Westerwelle in Berlin Nineteen days after the formation of a new German government, Serbian President Boris Tadic headed for a one-day visit to Berlin.

Serbia's president Boris Tadic, second left, pays his respects near the coffin of Serbian Patriarch Pavle at the main Saborna Crkva church in Belgrade, November 15 2009.

Patriarch Pavle, who led Serbia's Christian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the turbulent 1990s marked by ethnic conflicts in the Balkans, died Sunday.

The crumbling walls of the medieval Gumnishte fortress can still be seen atop an extinct volcano in Novo Brdo -- a relic of the city's heyday as a European mining and trade center.

Vukovic and Tomic: Aggressors' Side A former military observer with the United Nations considers that "the Bosnian Serb side" was the aggressor in Srebrenica in July 1995.

Prime Minister George Papandreou, speaking during an informal cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening after coming directly from the airport upon his return from Berlin where he attended the ceremony on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall, said that "it is our duty to keep alive the hope of every citizen." Papandreou said that he had a meeting ...

Serbia will probably apply next month for eventual European Union membership, but will first wait for a green light from Brussels to proceed, the country's president said.

BELGRADE, Serbia -- UN war crimes tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz will visit Serbia on Wednesday , local media reported on Sunday.