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Thousands of Serbians hit streets demanding annulment of recent election
Fp Staff •According to an international monitoring mission, President Aleksandar Vucic's undue influence, media bias, and voting irregularities like vote buying gave the SNS an unfair advantage on Monday
Moldova, Serbia mull bid to host COP29 climate summit after geopolitical spat leaves event without host
Fp Staff •Negotiations on who will take over from current COP28 host the United Arab Emirates hit an unprecedented deadlock, with countries in the eastern Europe region, which is due to host the annual UN summit, unable to agree on a candidate
British soldiers guard Kosovo-Serbia border amid as situation remains tense
Ajeyo Basu •Ethnic Serbs make up about five percent of the population of Kosovo; the majority reside in the north, rejecting Kosovo's independence, and regard Belgrade as their capital. They have frequently battled with UN peacekeepers and the Kosovo police
Serbia decreases number of troops near Kosovo
Ajeyo Basu •Since Kosovo police engaged some 30 armed Serbs who had barricaded themselves inside a Serbian Orthodox monastery on September 24, near the northern Kosovo village of Banjska, tensions between Belgrade and Pristina have risen sharply
Serbs in Kosovo mourn those killed in monastery shootout
Fp Staff •The gunbattle has prompted new international concern over stability in Kosovo, which has an ethnic Albanian majority and declared independence from Serbia in 2008 after a guerrilla uprising and a 1999 NATO intervention
President Murmu highlights India-Serbia trade and investment potential at Business Forum in Belgrade
•President Murmu, who is in Serbia in the last leg of her two-nation visit, was addressing the India-Serbia Business Forum in Belgrade on Thursday. Murmu was also called on by Serbian PM Ana Brnabic
President Murmu receives warm welcome by Serbian counterpart Vucic at Presidential Palace
•President Droupadi Murmu attended the official welcoming ceremony at Serbia Palace with counterpart Aleksandar Vucic during her state visit to Serbia today
President Murmu to visit Suriname, Serbia from June 4 to 9
Fp Staff •In Suriname, President Murmu will hold talks with her counterpart Santokhi. The two leaders will participate in a number of activities to commemorate the arrival of Indians in the country
Novak Djokovic draws criticism from Kosovo tennis federation for comments at French Open
•After a first-round victory in Paris, Djokovic wrote in Serbian on the lens of a courtside TV camera: “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia. Stop the violence.”
Suspected gunman confesses to killing eight in shooting rampage in Serbia
•UB is suspected of committing several crimes including aggravated murder, illegal production, possession, carrying and trafficking of weapons and explosive materials, and of kidnapping, said the prosecutors in Smederevo, the municipality where some of the shootings occurred