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BBC News
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Results from Serbia's elections point to a triumph for President Boris Tadic's pro-European Union bloc.
Mr Tadic claimed victory, with his bloc set to win nearly 40% of the vote, but he may need the support of at least one nationalist party for a major..
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MSNBC
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But Russia, Serbia's key ally, and emerging global power China remained adamantly opposed to Kosovo's independence, warning of the danger of inspiring separatist movements around the world, including in their own sprawling territories.
As veto-wielding..
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CNN
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Kosovo on Monday began its campaign for global recognition a day after declaring independence from Serbia, but bitter divisions in the European Union and United Nations raised the specter of conflict over the Balkan territory. Facing severe economic probl..
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CNN
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Boris Tadic celebrated his re-election as Serbia's president by pledging Monday to stay on a pro-Western course despite nationalist anger over a looming declaration of independence by Kosovo province. Tadic, who supports Serbia's eventual membership in th..
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CNN
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Kosovo's assembly was expected Wednesday to approve a coalition government which strongly backs independence from Serbia. The Democratic Party of former rebel leader Hashim Thaci and its rival, the Democratic League of Kosovo, concluded negotiations this..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Serbia was guilty of failing to prevent the genocide of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, the UN's highest court ruled today. But the international court of justice cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide and complicity in..
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Reuters
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Serbia's ultranationalist Radical Party claimed victory in national elections on Sunday, in a voter rejection of Western appeals for closer cooperation on the arrest of war criminals and on Kosovo...
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CNN
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President Filip Vujanovic won re-election by a landslide, election monitors said Monday, cementing Montenegro's westward economic and political course since breaking away from Serbia two years ago. Sunday's presidential vote -- the tiny Adriatic nation's..
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BBC News
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The man tipped to become the next Russian president has vowed his country will "stick to" its support for Serbia in opposing Kosovo's independence.
Deputy PM Dmitry Medvedev was in Belgrade for talks with Serb President Boris Tadic and PM Vojislav Kost..
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BBC News
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The European Union has said it wants to accelerate Serbia's progress towards membership following the re-election of pro-Western President Boris Tadic.
Mr Tadic claimed victory after taking slightly more than half the votes cast in a tight run-off cont..
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BBC News
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EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn says a pre-membership deal should be signed with Serbia shortly, but not until presidential elections are over.
Speaking in Brussels before a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Mr Rehn said a "very strong signal of a..
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BBC News
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Hardline nationalist Tomislav Nikolic has won the first round of Serbia's presidential election, but will face a run-off poll, officials say.
Mr Nikolic, who leans towards Russia, appeared to have won 39.6%, while the more pro-EU president, Boris Tadic..
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BBC News
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European Union leaders are expected to offer Serbia a fast track route towards candidacy for EU membership.
The plan is seen as a way of keeping the Balkans stable, with Kosovo set to declare independence from Serbia, which has already rejected the "tr..
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BBC News
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Kosovo will declare independence from Serbia "much earlier" than the expected month of May, a spokesman says.
The statement comes as a UN deadline for agreement on the future of Kosovo is set to expire, after months of talks which have failed to break..
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BBC News
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The European Union is set to resume talks with Serbia on forging closer ties, the EU has announced.
Serbia hopes the talks will eventually lead to full membership of the EU.
The EU said the decision to resume talks on 13 June followed Belgrade's imp..
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BBC News
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EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn says he expects partnership talks with Serbia to resume later this month.
He said Serbia had now demonstrated "clear commitment to full co-operation" with The Hague war crimes tribunal.
Talks were suspended a ye..
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BBC News
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Russia says a new draft UN resolution supporting a plan for supervised independence for Kosovo is unacceptable and has hinted it could be vetoed.
The new text softens some of the original language and also proposes a new special envoy to help refugees..
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Al Jazeera
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Olli Rehn, the EU enlargement commissioner, was due in Belgrade on Wednesday to meet Serbian leaders and assess whether Serbia is serious about arresting leading war crimes suspects such as Mladic.
Kostunica, a moderate nationalist, formed a coalition..
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www.worldtopix.com
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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) says it will consider a prosecutor's request to lift the confidentiality on some documents linked to the war crimes trial of the late Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic...
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www.worldtopix.com
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SARAJEVO,Bosnia – The Bosnian Presidency adopted the Decision on sending a request to Serbia to honour its commitments towards Bosnia stemming from the Convention on Preventing Genocide and Punishing the Crimes of Genocide...
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