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BELGRADE, Serbia -- The head of the Veritas Documentation Centre in Belgrade, Savo Strbac, announced on Saturday that the police in Podgorica have arrested Stanko Kovacevic on suspicions of having committed war crimes in Croatia.

Macedonia Troubled by Serbiaa oeNamea Statement Skopje, Belgrade Tadic [left], Ivanov [Right] at the funeral, photo by FoNet Serbia's president Boris Tadic late Thursday sought to smooth ruffled feathers, after his foreign minister Vuk Jeremic said his country supports Greece's position in the 18-year name row between Skopjeand Athens.

Pope Benedict XVI met with Serbian President Boris Tadic and Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer in separate private audiences on November 16.

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Jean Francois Terral, France's ambassador to Belgrade, said on Friday that he believes the frozen Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the EU and Serbia will be resolved shortly.

Hundreds of thousands of people joined a somber funeral procession Thursday for Patriarch Pavle, the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the bloody ethnic conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s.

Belgrade Serbian police Serbian special forces arrested on Tuesday a 13-member criminal group, suspected kidnappers, extortionists and people smugglers, who are also suspected of involvement in arms and drugs trafficking.

Serbian President Boris Tadic faces a fine for allegedly drinking champagne at a stadium with his sports minister and the head of the soccer federation.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sees "good prospects" for Serbia's attempts to join the European Union despite disagreements over the status of Kosovo.

Thousands of people have turned out at a church to pay their last respects to the late Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle.

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Patriarch Pavle, who led Serbia's Christian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the turbulent 1990s marked by ethnic conflicts in the Balkans, died Sunday.

Kosovo citizens go to the polls Sunday for the first time since the ethnic Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia last year and amid fears that local Serbs will boycott the vote.

File photo of heads of garlic on sale at a local produce market. BELGRADE, Serbia a ' There's been a run on garlic in the markets of Serbia's capital, Belgrade.

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Belgrade's open-air markets were a welter of busy customers on Friday, pushing and shoving to buy one item - garlic.

Pretrial hearings in the case of a Serb accused of beating a fellow student into a coma in the United States will begin in December, a Serbian court said Thursday.

A 50-year-old Eaeak native who died in Kragujevac this afternoon has become the fourth victim of swine flue.

BELGRADE, Serbia -- The cabinet plans to discuss a draft law on determining the jurisdiction of the Vojvodina province Thursday , a precondition for adopting the province's statute.

Serbia's Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said that Serbs who plan to vote in Kosovo's local elections this Sunday should ask themselves whether they are helping Belgrade ''save'' Kosovo by doing so.

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