Serbia News

Twelve alleged Muslim radicals who were mostly arrested in Serbia's southern region of Sandzak have been jailed for plotting attacks on an imam and others.

Two people have died in a car crash early this morning near Vranje, in southern Serbia.

Thirteen is a lucky number for Baya Bakari, the 14-year-old girl who survived when a Yemenia Airlines plane crashed into the Indian Ocean Tuesday morning.

The government backed President Boris Tadic on Thursday , agreeing that minority Serbs in Kosovo should not participate in November local elections there.

Poland supports Serbia's European aspirations and opts for easing visa requirements toward Serbia, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Thursday after meeting with his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic.

The mascot of the 25th World Universiade enters the meeting place ahead of the flag-raising ceremony of Chinese delegation at the Universiade Village in Belgrade, Serbia, June 30, 2009.

Kosovo police said 307 Serb officers returned to the force they quit in February 2008 to protest the secession from Serbia declared by Albanian leaders.

More than 200 Serb police officers, members of the Kosovo police, KPS, returned to their duties on Tuesday, a KPS spokesman said.

Serbian President Boris Tadic said he expected Bulgaria's explanation over the release of the former Kosovo Prime Minister, Agim Ceku, who is wanted for war crimes in Serbia.

BELGRADE, Serbia -- President Boris Tadic called for calm Friday concerning a law on the special status of the Vojvodina region, which is predominately populated by ethnic Hungarians.

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Tadic Visit Strains Bosnia-Serbia relations Sarajevo Srecko Latal Serbian President Boris Tadic The recent visit of Serbian President Boris Tadic to Banja Luka, the seat of the Bosnian Serb leadership, continues to draw strong criticism from other Bosnian leaders.

Serbian prosecutors filed war crimes charges on Friday against 17 former Kosovo guerrillas for the alleged murder, rape and torture of Serb civilians.

Sarajevo Srecko Latal Serbian President Boris Tadic has issued a strong statement of support for the Bosnian Serb leadership in a joint condemnation of Bosnia's top western envoy, who has moved to abolish a Bosnian Serb declaration challenging his powers.

Ceku is specifically charged by the Serbian Nis District Court with genocide in relation to the murder of 669 Serbs and 18 others during the Kosovo war [JURIST news archive]. Serbian Minister of Justice Snezana Malovic [official profile] has requested the extradition of Ceku from Bulgaria and expects authorities to respond "promptly and ...

The SPS-PUPS-JS coalition is ready to negotiate with all parties to form local governments in the municipalities of Zemun, Vozdovac and Kosjeriae, says the SPS.

Serbiaa s arrest of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is a milestone on its road to joining the European Union but Belgrade must go further to reap the full benefits, EU ministers said on Tuesday.

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry confirmed on June 23 2009 that former Kosovo prime minister Agim Ceku had been arrested while trying to enter Bulgaria from Macedonia, on the basis of an Interpol warrant issued at the request of Serbia because Ceku has a 20-year jail sentence issued in Belgrade for war crimes.

BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia's war crimes court convicted a Croatian Serb on Tuesday for his role in the 1991 torture and killing of 200 Croatian prisoners at a pig farm during the Balkan conflicts.

Belgrade Bojan Pajtic Police in Novi Sad have seized an undisclosed amount of explosives from the home of bojan Patic's political advisor.