Activists rally in Belgrade to protest railway station disaster
Belgrade, Serbia Reuters Hundreds of opposition activists rallied in Belgrade on Sunday to protest over a deadly accident at a railway station in Serbia’s north, for which they blame negligence and corruption by the authorities. The disaster on Friday in the city of Novi Sad, about 70 kilometres north-west of Belgrade, happened when roofing along […]
UN General Assembly declares Srebrenica genocide remembrance day
United Nations/Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Reuters The United Nations General Assembly declared 11th July an international day of remembrance of the Srebrenica genocide in a vote on Thursday that survivors branded as historic and Serbs as a failure, reflecting deep ethnic divisions in Bosnia. The massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys in […]
Srebrenica survivors still haunted as UN votes on genocide remembrance
Srebrenica, Bosnia Reuters Kada Hotic last saw her son, husband and brother on 11th July, 1995, as Bosnian Serb forces swamped the United Nations “safe zone” of the town of Srebrenica, forcing thousands of panicked Muslims to flee. Shells exploded around Hotic and her family as they ran towards a UN base for safety, passing […]
China’s Xi Jinping visits Serbia on anniversary of 1999 NATO bombing
Belgrade, Serbia Reuters Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Serbia on Tuesday evening escorted by MIG-29 jets in a tightly secured visit coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the NATO bombing of China’s embassy in which three Chinese journalists were killed. Belgrade, after France, is the second stop on Xi’s first visit to Europe in […]
Serbian elections marred by President’s involvement, vote buying – observers
Belgrade, Serbia Reuters Serbia’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) gained an unfair advantage in snap parliamentary elections through media bias, the improper influence of President Aleksandar Vucic and voting irregularities such as vote buying, an international monitoring mission said on Monday. The populist SNS won 46.72 per cent of the votes in Sunday’s elections, according […]
Serbia’s ruling SNS leads in parliamentary vote, preliminary results show
Belgrade, Serbia Reuters The ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) of President Aleksandar Vucic is in the lead in a snap election on Sunday with 46.6 per cent of votes, according to a projection by pollsters Ipsos and CeSID. The opposition Serbia Against Violence (SPN) alliance is set to come second with 23 per cent, while […]
Serbia-Montenegro tensions escalate amid church dispute
Belgrade, Serbia AP Serbia’s President has pledged to protect Serbs in Montenegro who he says are threatened by the possible formation of an independent Orthodox Church in the small state, as tensions escalated between the two former Balkan allies. President Aleksandar Vucic said after meeting Wednesday with the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in […]