A judge has ruled that Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic, the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre, was fit to stand trial at a war crimes court.
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/ 6 December 2010
In a sport fuelled by individual brilliance, Serbia illustrated on Sunday that the Davis Cup still holds a cherished place in tennis’s rich folklore.
Belgrade’s clubs offer everything from Gypsy folk to Balkan bling, but whichever one you end up in, you’re in for a good time.
Unexploded cluster bombs threaten thousands of Serbian civilians almost 10 years after they were dropped during Nato’s 1999 air war over Kosovo.
Thanks to a popular vote, Canada and China are the most heavily represented nations in a new global edition of Monopoly.
The old man on the 73 bus looked like a monk. His bushy white beard obscured half his face and his long white hair was tied in a top-knot.
Serbs began voting on Sunday in an election that will show whether the lure of European Union membership outweighs their anger over the Western-backed secession of Kosovo. The country is divided and the two frontrunners, the nationalist Radical Party and the pro-Western Democratic Party, will have to woo smaller parties to form a coalition.
Manchester United completed a 3-0 aggregate win over AS Roma on Wednesday to join Liverpool and Chelsea in the Champions League semifinals as the three English teams repeated last season’s success. United will be joined by 2006 winners Barcelona, who beat German side Schalke 04 by a single goal at home to secure a 2-0 aggregate victory.
Arsenal and Liverpool fought out a pulsating 1-1 draw while Fenerbahce came from behind for a 2-1 home win over Chelsea in Wednesday’s Champions League quarterfinal, first-leg matches. Liverpool soaked up intense second-half pressure from Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium to earn the away-goal edge for Tuesday’s return leg at Anfield in their all-English clash.
Manchester United beat Roma 2-0 away and Barcelona won 1-0 at Schalke in their Champions League quarterfinal, first-leg matches on Tuesday to take big steps towards a semifinal showdown. Goals by Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney either side of half-time gave United victory at the Stadio Olimpico as the English champions continued to torment Roma.
The Netherlands staged a remarkable comeback to win 4-3 in Austria while European champions Greece beat Portugal 2-1 as all 16 Euro 2008 finalists contested friendlies on Wednesday. England midfielder David Beckham will not have happy memories of his 100th international appearance after Fabio Capello’s side suffered a 1-0 defeat to France in Paris.
Serbia’s neighbours in Croatia, Hungary and Bulgaria dealt a blow to the Serb campaign to overturn Kosovo’s month-old independence on Wednesday by announcing they would recognise the new republic. In a joint statement issued in Zagreb, Budapest and Sofia, they said the decision was based on ”thorough consideration”.
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/ 22 February 2008
Serb rioters enraged by Kosovo’s secession stormed the United States embassy in Belgrade and set it on fire, leaving one person dead and drawing swift condemnation from Washington and the United Nations Security Council. The US State Department said the lack of protection for its mission was intolerable and demanded the Security Council respond.
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/ 8 February 2008
A declaration of Kosovo’s independence by the end of next week looked increasingly likely on Friday after Serbia said it had information the ”illegal” move would happen on February 17. Belgrade and most Serbs oppose independence for Kosovo, which they consider the cradle of their history, culture and Orthodox Christianity.
Two former members of a Serbian paramilitary police unit and 10 co-conspirators were found guilty on Wednesday of the assassination of reformist Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic four years ago. The verdict in the biggest and most controversial trial since the fall of strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 came as little surprise.
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/ 16 October 2006
Eight fans have been detained for questioning and face charges of spreading racial hatred following a Serbian first division match on Saturday, police said. Fans in the central Serbian city of Cacak racially abused Zimbabwean striker Mike Tawmanyera during a league match between local club Borac and Vozdovac Belgrade.
European Union (EU) enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn on Tuesday urged Belgrade and Podgorica to engage in constructive talks on their ”velvet divorce” after Montenegro’s historic independence referendum on May 21. Rehn said that both sides must adhere to standards agreed upon with the EU over the dissolution of their loose federation.
Serbia and Montenegro began on Wednesday the difficult task of dismantling their union, with opposition parties yet to accept referendum results showing Montenegrins had voted for independence. Seeking a speedy split, Serbia-Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic, a Montenegrin, has already announced plans to resign on Thursday.
Serbian police made fresh arrests and raided apartments on Friday in the hunt for genocide suspect Ratko Mladic as pressure mounted on Belgrade to bring one of the most-wanted men in Europe to justice. The police actions came two days after the European Union punished Serbia for failing to hand Mladic over to the United Nations war-crimes tribunal by the end of April.
The stock of Slobodan Milosevic had already been rising among Serbs who watched his feisty performances at his war-crimes trial at The Hague. His death now makes him a martyr — and brings into serious question Belgrade’s future cooperation with the war-crimes tribunal.
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/ 17 October 2005
Serbia’s royal family issued a statement in the style of a personal ad on Monday seeking local wives for its three unmarried princes. ”Princess wanted!” and ”How to become a princess in Serbia” read the headlines to the statement, in which Prince Peter (25) and his twin brothers Philip and Alexander (23) said they are ready to meet the loves of their lives.
Serbia on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary since the ouster of then strongman Slobodan Milosevic, with his democratic successors expressing regret over the slow pace of change since the massive popular uprising. ”There are very few in Serbia today who can be satisfied with the results recorded by Serbia since” Milosevic’s overthrow, said Serbia’s current pro-Western president, Boris Tadic.
A postcard sent from a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Germany in 1942 has been delivered to its address in Serbia after more than 63 years, local media reported on Wednesday. Michael Cronenberg, a German antiques dealer bought a postcard, written by prisoner of war Vojislav Dzeletovic on June 26, 1942 from a camp in eastern Germany to his wife Bosiljka, at a flea market in Germany.
Thousands of tiny frogs rained on a town in north-western Serbia, Belgrade daily Blic reported on Tuesday. Strong winds brought storm clouds over Odzaci, 120km north-west of Belgrade, on Sunday afternoon, but instead of rain, down came the tiny amphibians, witnesses said.
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/ 22 September 2004
Three actors filming a bank-robbery scene in Novi Sad, northern Serbia, were mistakenly arrested by police, daily newspaper Vecernje Novosti reported on Wednesday. The three were running out of the bank wearing masks and carrying plastic guns, as the script demanded.
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/ 10 September 2004
The Serbian Education Ministry bowed to a public outcry and reinstated Charles Darwin’s theory of human evolution to the school programme. Earlier this week, Education Minister Ljiljana Colic, who maintains she prays every night to a Serbian saint for enlightenment in her work, said that she had scrapped Darwin’s theory from the eighth-grade curriculum.
At least nine people were killed and three more were feared dead after a Bulgarian bus carring about 50 high school students crashed into a river between Serbia and Montenegro, police said on Monday. The bus was returning the students, aged from 13 to 17 years, and their teachers to Bulgaria after a field trip to Croatia.
Four Kosovan Albanian children who survived a Serbian massacre and were given the right to live in the northern city of Manchester, in the United Kingdom, went to court in Belgrade this week to tell their story to a war crimes trial .
The United States has asked Yugoslavia to grant US citizens legal immunity from extradition in cases heard by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, says a Yugoslav offical.