Serbia

Fears are high of a resumption of the violence that has marked their relations since Kosovo unilaterally broke away from Serbia in 2008

Russia’s war in Ukraine has put integration of the Western Balkans into the EU at the top of the 27-nation bloc’s agenda. The EU made it a requirement for Western Balkans to reform their economies and political institutions before joining

Spain is now No. 2, and World Cup champion Germany soared eight spots to No. 3 on the world list, the best in that program’s history

Andreas Obst scored 24 points, Franz Wagner added 22 and Germany shredded the U.S. defense for much of the way in its first win over the Americans

Spain defeated Brazil 96-78, and the Americans beat Greece 109-81

On Tuesday, Porzingis announced that he would not play for Latvia in the World Cup because of the issue

His 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Andrey Rublev was the 33rd in a row at the All England Club for Djokovic, moving him closer to a fifth consecutive championship and eighth overall there

In a brief televised address, the Serbian army chief-of-staff, Gen. Milan Mojsilovic, said Kosovo Serbs can no longer ‘tolerate the terror’ of the Kosovo government

After 30 years, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia concluded its final case and determined that Belgrade was accountable for spearheading a criminal ethnic cleansing enterprise

There have been violent clashes between Kosovo’s police and local Serbs that have left dozens of people injured on both sides. Serbia raised the combat readiness of its troops stationed near the border and warned that it won’t stand by if Serbs in Kosovo are attacked again.

The soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades to protect the Kosovar officers and disperse protesters, according to witnesses. The assembled Serbs responded by throwing rocks and other hard objects

Tens of thousands of people rallied on Friday for a third time in a month in protests following two mass shootings in the Balkan country earlier this month

The government declared a one-month amnesty period to surrender unregistered weapons following shootings this month that left 17 people dead, many of them children

The Serbian Interior Ministry on Thursday said on Instagram that police also have received nearly 300,000 rounds of ammunition and about 470 explosive devices during the same period

Branko Ruzic is the first Serbian official to resign over the shootings despite widespread calls for more senior officials to step down in the wake of the back-to-back bloodshed

A gunman killed eight people and wounded 14 in two Serbian villages on Thursday, a day after a 13-year-old boy used his father’s guns to kill eight students and a guard at a school in Serbia’s capital

Eight students were killed a day earlier when a 13-year-old boy used his father’s guns in a school shooting rampage that sent shock waves through the nation and triggered moves to boost gun control

A father of a student at the school in central Belgrade says the shooter entered his daughter’s classroom, firing at her teacher and then her classmates as they ducked under their desks.

Police say 13-year-old shooter Kosta Kecmanovic drew sketches of classrooms and wrote a list of people he intended to target

The 35-year-old from Serbia won that event six times, most recently in 2016