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FILE- A woman walks in front of the destroyed former Serbian army headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia, March 24, 2010. Opposition groups in Serbia are planning protests against a real estate development project that will be financed by the firm of Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a U.S.-led NATO bombing campaign in 1999. The Serbian government earlier this week signed a deal with a Kushner-related company for the 99-year lease of land in central Belgrade for the "revitalization" of the bombed-out buildings. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Protests are planned in Serbia against a real estate project financed by Trump’s son-in-law Kushner

Opposition groups in Serbia are planning protests against a real estate development project that will be financed by the firm of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, at the site of the former Serbian army headquarters destroyed in a U.S.
 
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, receives Bosnian Serb leader serving as the 8th President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik in his office office in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

UN resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia sparks opposition from Serbs

 
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, right, shakes hands with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, left, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Kuleba, who has arrived on a surprise visit to Russia-friendly Serbia, held talks on Monday in Belgrade in a sign of warming relations between the two states. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Ukraine’s first lady and foreign minister visit Russia-friendly Serbia

 
Kosovo's foreign minister and deputy prime minister Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday May 8, 2024. Kosovo's foreign minister said Wednesday that her country is convinced that Russia must lose the war in Ukraine in order for conflict not to spread further in Europe, stressing that her young nation's support for Ukraine is unconditional even though Kyiv has not recognized Kosovo's independence. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Kosovo backs Ukraine even though Kyiv has not recognized its independence, foreign minister says

 
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, shakes hands with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic greet the crowd at the Serbia Palace in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

China and EU-candidate Serbia sign an agreement to build a ‘shared future’

 

Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets Serbia’s Vucic on the second leg of his Europe tour

Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets Serbia’s Vucic on the second leg of his Europe tour
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Crowds gather to pay respects as Serbia marks 1st anniversary of school shooting

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Workers stick a Chinese national flag on a billboard in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to European ally Serbia on Tuesday falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during NATO's air war over Kosovo. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Xi begins Serbia visit on the 25th anniversary of NATO’s bombing of the Chinese Embassy

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy during NATO’s air war over Kosovo.
 
A banner of a Colombian-born American missing woman Ana Maria Knezevich Henao, 40, is displayed on a streetlight in Madrid, Spain, Feb. 16, 2024. The estranged husband of the woman who disappeared three months ago in Spain has been charged by U.S. federal agents with her kidnapping. U.S. marshals arrested David Knezevich at Miami International Airport on Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, file)

Husband of Florida woman missing in Spain is charged with her disappearance

U.S. authorities have arrested a Florida man in connection with the disappearance of his estranged wife in Spain three months ago.
 
Chinese and Serbian flags fly on lampposts, days before the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Xi will visit France, Serbia and Hungary this week as Beijing appears to seek a larger role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has upended global political and economic security. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Hungary and Serbia’s autocratic leaders to roll out red carpet for China’s Xi during Europe tour

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will spend most of his five-day tour in Europe this week in two small countries at the continent’s eastern half.
 
People cry in front of the Vladislav Ribnikar school during a memorial ceremony to mark the first anniversary of a shooting that killed 10 people in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Flowers, candles, silence as Serbia marks the 1st anniversary of mass shooting at a Belgrade school

Hundreds of people are laying flowers and lighting candles to commemorate the victims of Serbia’s first-ever school shooting a year ago that left nine children and a school guard dead and six people wounded.
 
Serbia's new Prime Minister Milos Vucevic and ministers of the new government of Serbia read their oaths at the parliament session during her cabinet's swearing in ceremony at the Serbian Parliament building in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Serbian lawmakers on Thursday voted into office a new government that reinstated two pro-Russia officials who are sanctioned by the United States, reflecting persistent close ties with Moscow despite the Balkan nation's proclaimed bid to join the European Union. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Lawmakers in Serbia elect new government with pro-Russia ministers sanctioned by the US

Serbian lawmakers have voted into office a new government that reinstated two pro-Russia officials who are sanctioned by the United States.
 
FILE - Police block streets around the Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. A teenage boy opened fire at the school on the morning of May 3, 2023. Eight children and a school guard died, and seven people were wounded. One of the wounded, a child, died from injuries later. A total of 10 people were killed. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Serbia prepares to mark school shooting anniversary. A mother says ‘everyone rushed to forget’

Serbia is preparing to mark the anniversary of a school shooting last year that killed 10 people. Mother Ninela Radicevic lost her 11-year-old daughter in the tragedy on May 3, 2023.
 
FILE - Aleksandar Vulin, former director of Serbia's intelligence agency attends a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sept. 8, 2021. Serbia's new government will include a former intelligence chief, Aleksandar Vulin who has fostered close ties with Russia and is sanctioned by the United States, the prime minister - designate Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday April 30, 2024. The inclusion of Vulin into the new government suggests further shift toward Russia despite Serbia's proclaimed pro-EU path. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Serbia’s new government to include US-sanctioned ex-intelligence chief with close ties to Russia

Serbia’s new government will include a former intelligence chief who has fostered close ties with Russia and is sanctioned by the United States.
 
FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping talks to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Great Hall of the People, on April 26, 2024, in Beijing, China. Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit France, Serbia and Hungary next week as Beijing appears to seek a larger role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has upended global political and economic security, China's foreign ministry said Monday, April 29. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool, File)

China’s Xi to visit France, Serbia, Hungary as Beijing appears to seek a larger role in Ukraine

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit France, Serbia and Hungary next week as Beijing appears to seek a larger role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has upended global political and economic security.
 
A voter is identified before he casts his vote at a polling station in North Mitrovica, Kosovo Sunday, April 21, 2024. Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities are casting their votes Sunday in a referendum to decide whether to remove their ethnic Albanian mayors from office following last year’s mayoral elections, overwhelmingly boycotted by the Serb minority. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities boycott vote on removing ethnic Albanian mayors

Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities have overwhelmingly boycotted a vote on removing their ethnic Albanian mayors from office following last year’s mayoral elections.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic shake hands during a joint statement before a working dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, April 8, 2024. (Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool via AP)

Serbia says it’s close to a deal to buy French-made fighter jets. That would be a shift from Russia

Serbian president says his country is close to signing a deal on the purchase of 12 French Rafale multi-purpose fighter jets in what would mark a shift from its traditional arms supplier Russia.
 
People set on a truck a Russian flag, that reads: "Pray to God, hold on to Russia", prior to a rally in front of the former Serbian army headquarters, destroyed during NATO's bombing campaign, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Serbia marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the NATO air-campaign in 1999, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbians are petitioning against a planned luxury project backed by Trump son-in-law’s firm

An opposition group in Serbia has launched a petition against a real estate development project that would be financed by the firm of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a meeting with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (Olga Maltseva /Pool Photo via AP)

Russian foreign minister hails soccer game with Serbia’s national team and meets with counterpart

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has met with his Serbian counterpart in Moscow ahead of a soccer game between the countries’ national teams.
 

Serbian prosecutors charge 10 for stealing 43,000 state decorations of honor

Serbian prosecutors say that 10 people are facing charges for stealing as many as 43,000 state decorations of honor from a government building.
 
Elena Koposova sits in her house in the village of Rogaca, Serbia, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. When Elena Koposova signed an open letter denouncing the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago, she never thought it could lead to an express order to leave Serbia where she has been living with her family since 2019. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia revokes an expulsion order for a Russian woman after a public outcry

A pro-democracy Russian group in Serbia says authorities have revoked an expulsion order for a Russian woman who signed an open letter denouncing the invasion of Ukraine.
 
A man waves a rainbow flag in front of the monument of late Serbian Duke Mihailo Obrenovic during a protest, in downtown Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Rights activists and members of LGBTQ+ community in Serbia on Wednesday held a protest following a reported case of police harassment of a young gay men and a bisexual woman. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Activists and members of Serbia’s LGBTQ+ community protest reported police harassment

Rights activists and members of LGBTQ+ community in Serbia have held a protest following a reported case of police harassment of a young gay men and a bisexual woman.
 
FILE - Opposition lawmakers hold banners reading: "Stole the elections" during a Serbia's parliament constitutive session in Belgrade, Serbia, Feb. 6, 2024. Officials say a key vote for control of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade is to be rerun later this year. The announcement follows months of soaring political tensions over claims that the ruling populists of President Aleksandar Vucic orchestrated a fraud in the vote for Belgrade’s city assembly. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

An election for control of Serbia’s capital is to be rerun following opposition fraud claims

Officials say a key vote for control of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade is to be rerun later this year. The announcement follows months of soaring political tensions over claims that the ruling populists of President Aleksandar Vucic orchestrated a fraud in the vote for Belgrade’s city assembly.
 

Police in Greece say a Balkan drug feud led to dozens of killings across Europe

Greek police say that a yearslong, multinational investigation into feuding Balkan criminal gangs behind multiple killings across Europe has led to the arrests of 10 suspects.
 
Serbian outgoing Prime Minister Ana Brnabic speaks during a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The final international report about a tense early vote last December in Serbia concluded on Wednesday that the election was held in unjust conditions and "marred by harsh rhetoric, bias in the media, pressure on public sector employees and misuse of public resources." Outgoing Prime Minister Ana Brnabic on Wednesday accused opposition groups and independent media of creating a "false narrative" about the alleged election fraud with an aim to destabilize the country. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

An international monitoring mission says Serbia’s election was held in unjust conditions

A report by international monitors says Serbia’s recent disputed election was held in “unjust conditions” in part because of the president’s involvement and systemic advantages for the ruling party.
 
Elena Koposova shows a picture with her husband when they lived in Russia, in her house in the village of Rogaca, Serbia, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. When Elena Koposova signed an open letter denouncing the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago, she never though it could lead to an express order to leave Serbia where she has been living with her family since 2019. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Moscow ally Serbia cracks down on anti-war Russians living in the Balkan country

When Elena Koposova signed an open letter against Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she didn’t expect a backlash in her newly adopted home state of Serbia.
 
FILE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaks during a public address in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Serbia on Sunday Feb. 25, 2024, sent a protest note to Croatia over a statement made by Croatia's foreign minister that Serbia's populist president Aleksandar Vucic is a Russian "satellite" in the Balkans. It was the latest spate between the two neighboring states that have been at odds for most of the time since the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Serbia protests after Croatia’s foreign minister calls Vučić a Russian ‘satellite’ in the Balkans

Serbia has sent a protest note after the Croatian foreign minister called President Aleksandar Vučić a Russian “satellite” in the Balkans.
 
FILE - A drone, left, and Serbian Army Airbus H145M multi-utility helicopter fly during the military exercise at the army barracks in Pancevo, some 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Serbia has received more arms deliveries from Russia despite international sanctions over Ukraine and claims by the Balkan country's leadership that they are seeking European Union membership. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday presented a Russian anti-drone system for electronic jamming known as Repellent that he recently said "is in our hands" despite the Western sanctions (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Serbia receives another arms delivery from Russia despite international sanctions over Ukraine

Serbia has received another arms delivery from its ally Russia despite international sanctions on Moscow over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
 
People line up at a cash machine in northern Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. The European Union on Thursday called on Kosovo to postpone an effort to force ethnic Serbian-dominated areas to adopt the same currency as the rest of the country, as rules that would block use of the Serbian dinar went into effect. Most of Kosovo uses the Euro, even though the country is not part of the EU, but parts of its north populated mostly by ethnic Serbs continue to use the dinar. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo spar at the UN over the latter’s ban of the Serbian dinar

Serbia’s president has accused Kosovo’s government at a heated U.N. meeting of banning the use of the Serbian currency in areas where minority Serbs live in Kosovo with the ultimate goal of making living conditions unbearable for them and expelling them.
 
The gravestones under which unidentified remains of 41 people retrieved from the river since 2017, are seen at the cemetery in Bijeljina, eastern Bosnia, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. In several cities along this river between Bosnia and Serbia, simple, durable gravestones now mark the final resting places of dozens of refugees and migrants who drowned in the area while trying to reach Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Migrants from Africa and Mideast who died in Bosnia get marble headstones and a memorial

In cities along a section of the Drina River that forms a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia, simple, durable gravestones mark the final resting places of dozens of migrants who drowned in recent years trying to reach Western Europe.
 
Opposition lawmakers hold banners reading: "Stole the elections" during a Serbia's parliament constitutive session in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. Serbia's National Assembly held an inaugural session on Tuesday as ruling nationalists ignored widespread reports that parliamentary and municipal elections held in December were marred by vote rigging and other irregularities. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

EU lawmakers seek an investigation into Serbia vote fraud allegations with an eye to freezing funds

European Union lawmakers are calling for an independent investigation into allegations of vote-rigging in Serbia.
 
Opposition lawmakers hold banners reading: "Stole the elections" during a Serbia's parliament constitutive session in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. Serbia's National Assembly held an inaugural session on Tuesday as ruling nationalists ignored widespread reports that parliamentary and municipal elections held in December were marred by vote rigging and other irregularities. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

New Serbian parliament inaugurated despite reports of election rigging and other irregularities

Serbia’s National Assembly has held a tense inaugural session as the ruling nationalists ignored widespread reports that parliamentary and municipal elections held in December were marred by vote rigging and numerous other irregularities.
 
People line up at a cash machine in northern Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. The European Union on Thursday called on Kosovo to postpone an effort to force ethnic Serbian-dominated areas to adopt the same currency as the rest of the country, as rules that would block use of the Serbian dinar went into effect. Most of Kosovo uses the Euro, even though the country is not part of the EU, but parts of its north populated mostly by ethnic Serbs continue to use the dinar. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

Kosovo’s block on the Serbian currency raises alarm in the EU and US

The European Union and the United States have expressed their deep concern after Kosovo banned the use of the Serbian currency and police raided the premises of organizations working with the Serb minority in the north of the country.
 
FILE - This is an undated file photo of Slavko Curuvija the owner and editor of two independent newspapers at the time, was gunned down on April 11, 1999, in Belgrade, Serbia. Media rights groups and opposition campaigners have condemned a Serbian appeals court ruling that acquitted four former intelligence officers who were jailed for the killing of a prominent editor and newspaper publisher. Slavko Curuvija was shot dead at the entrance to his Belgrade apartment during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia over its crackdown against Kosovo Albanian separatists. (AP Photo/Pedja Milosavljevic, File)

Rights groups denounce acquittal of former Serbian security officers accused of killing a journalist

Media rights groups and opposition campaigners have condemned a Serbian appeals court ruling that acquitted four former intelligence officers who were jailed for the killing of a prominent editor and newspaper publisher.
 
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic prepares for a public address in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Serbia will seek an urgent session of the UN Security Council to discuss escalation of crisis in its former province of Kosovo after its government decided to ban the use of the Serbian dinar and introduce the Euro currency in the areas where minority Serbs live, the Serbian president said Friday. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia will seek a UN Security Council meeting over latest escalation of tensions with Kosovo

Serbia’s president says the country’s government will seek an urgent session of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the escalation of tensions with its former province of Kosovo after its government decided to ban the use of the Serbian dinar and introduce the euro in areas where minority Serbs liv
 
A man withdraws Serbian Dinars from a bank cash machine in northern Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. The ban on the Serbian currency was to start on Thursday. USA, Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany called Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti to suspend enforcement of a regulation which bans the Serbian currency in Kosovo. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

The European Union calls on Kosovo to delay requiring ethnic Serbians to use euros instead of dinars

The European Union has called on Kosovo to postpone an effort to force ethnic Serbian-dominated areas to adopt the euro currency like in the rest of the country as rules that would block use of the Serbian dinar went into effect.
 

EU envoy urges Kosovo and Serbia to step up normalization efforts before the bloc’s June elections

The European Union’s envoy for the Western Balkans has urged Kosovo and Serbia to push ahead with faltering normalization talks before elections for the European Parliament in June.
 
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