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Serbia approves deal to normalize ties with Kosovo
Serbia’s government on Monday approved the EU-brokered deal with breakaway Kosovo, a historic agreement aimed at turning the page on the Balkans’ last simmering trouble-spot 14 years after the end of hostilities. The government has accepted the “first accord on principles which regulate normalisation of relations, reached during the dialogue…
Kosovo bars visit by Serbian president
Kosovo on Saturday barred Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic from visiting the seat of Serbia’s Orthodox Church for the Eastern Rite’s Christmas next week saying it was a response to Belgrade denying entry to officials from Pristina. “Nikolic will be able to visit Kosovo only when (he) provides reciprocity in visits…
Pyramid-shaped mountain in Serbia attracts Mayan doomsday believers
A pyramid-shaped mountain in Serbia, believed by some to be a source of unusual electromagnetic waves that could shield it from catastrophe, was attracting record numbers of visitors ahead of the predicted Mayan apocalypse on Friday. All the hotels around the Rtanj mountain in southeastern Serbia have been booked up…
Serbia says it has witness to Kosovo organ harvesting
Serbia said Sunday it had a former Kosovo rebel witness who allegedly took part in removing the heart of a Serb prisoner for the international black market in organs during the 1990s Kosovo conflict. “We have a witness who testified about a medical procedure, done in northern Albania, that consisted…
Court rejects Mladic appeal, extradition cleared
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia’s war crimes court has rejected the appeal of former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, paving the way to his extradition to the war crimes court in The Hague, a court spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday. The Hague court indicted Mladic for genocide in the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of…
Ratko Mladic denies role in Srebrenica massacre
BELGRADE – Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic insists he was not responsible for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, his son said Sunday, as Serbia braced for protests against the ex-army chief’s arrest. Police have stepped up security in Belgrade ahead of the protest called by ultra-nationalists, fearful of an…
Serbia arrests ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Mladic
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia said on Thursday it had arrested Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the once-pariah state to seek to join the European Union. “On behalf of the Republic of Serbia I can announce the…
Group D results: Germany tops, Ghana in 2nd
Another day, another group finished up and now we have the next set of Round of 16 matches: Germany’s 1-0 win over Ghana today combined with Australia’s 2-1 win over Serbia gives us England vs Germany and US vs Ghana. I believe both match-ups will be interesting, but I don’t…
Serbia 1-0 Germany
Did Tim Donaghy run a ref clinic for Alberto Undiano before the game? 7 cards in the first half. Maybe Alberto Undiano thinks of cards like paint, and he was merely expressing himself like Jackson Pollock. Maybe he thought he could single-handedly make football a non-contact sport. Maybe he had…
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