Serbia News

Serbian oil company NIS reported a 5 percent fall in first-half net profit due to higher taxes and will have to cut spending on projects in the second half.

After a scandal sparked by suspicion that the doctoral theses of certain Serbian politicians were plagiarised, about 1,800 Serbian scientists and professors submitted a petition to the Serbian government and called for "the protection of academic honour."

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. That adage applies to governments as well as to people.

House of Dreams, a Northeast Portland homeless shelter for cats, is asking for the community's help to enable it to continue to provide safe sanctuary for the "kitty misfits" in its care.The shelter is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to help pay for necessary repairs to keep its resident cats warm and dry this winter.

Although unions have launched protests over the adoption of the reformed Labour Law, Finance Minister Lazar Krstic resigned, believing that the reforms should be even swifter and tougher.

I've added a new podcast to my already-lengthy list. It's another BBC one - this time a short 2-3 minute piece each day, summing up news stories of 100 years ago in the lead up to World War I. A few weeks in, and I've already learned plenty, but it highlights a number of key elements that resonate strongly, including some that came up last week in ... (more)

Farmers in Kula, Serbia have made formal complaints about an Abu Dhabi company, Al Rawafed Agriculture, which is trying to acquire land.

From Adolf Hitler down to the petty bureaucrats who staffed the Nazi death camps, thousands of perpetrators of World War II war ... Associated Press Hungarian soldiers execute Serbians and Jews on Miletic Street in Novi-Sad, Yugoslavia, Jan. 23, 1942, during a series of "raids" in a photo provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Office for Kosovo head Marko Duriae met with UNMIK Chief Farid Zarif and told him that Serbia intends to support Serbs' participation in a new Kosovo government.

'Putin will come to Belgrade to celebrate with us the day when Belgrade was liberated ,' the Serbian president told Radio Television of Serbia late on Thursday, adding that the Russian leader will arrive here on his invitation.

Serbia's net minimum wage - deducting taxes and contributions for mandatory social insurance - will be RSD 115 per hour from July until December.

Belgrade says it hopes to join the EU, but will not reconsider its participation in Russia's South Stream project.

Vesna Otasevic A D , Lela Surlan B , Milica Vucetic A , Ivan Tulic B , Biljana Buzadzic A , Ana Stancic A , Aleksandra Jankovic A , Ksenija Velickovic C , Igor Golic C , Milica Markelic C , Aleksandra Korac C and Bato Korac A D A University of Belgrade, Department of Physiology, Institute for Biological Research 'Sinisa Stankovic', Bulevar despota ... (more)

The Court of Appeals in Pristina has rejected an appeal filed against a decision to keep Oliver Ivanoviae in prison, his party, GI SDP, announced on Thursday.

Sunshine and rain in quick succession during a single day, gale force winds, and even small tornadoes are not unusual for Serbia, a meteorologist says.

Romania will take no action to hinder Serbia's European path and as concerns the issue of minorities, Romania does not request more than it offers, Prime Minister Victor Ponta told a joint press conference with his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday, Agerpres informs.

This, Feb. 23, 2012, file photo shows Bridget Sisk, chief of Archives and Records Management Section at the United Nations, as she views a 1947 negative file during a special tour of U.N. historical archives.

Officials remove a victim from a nightclub fire in Novi Sad, Serbia, in 2012. Six people were killed in the blaze.

Interior ministries of Serbia, Germany and France set up a working group in Belgrade on Tuesday to deal with a number of issues.

Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali on Tuesday sent a message to his Moscow counterpart Sergei Sobyanin, offering condolences over the loss of life in a subway accident.