Serbian police have disarmed a man with two hand grenades who had threatened to blow himself up at the entrance to the office of Serbian President Boris Tadic, a senior police source said.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in Kosovo, the final stop of his three-day Balkan tour. He is the first senior U.S. official to visit Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia last year, and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has described the visit as "historic."
Serbia's president told visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden that he hoped to open a new page in relations with Washington, 10 years after NATO bombed the Balkan country over its conduct in Kosovo.
Bosnia could again descend into violence unless its leaders heal their ethnic divide, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned on May 19.
Some would argue that the best the EU can hope for in the Balkans is maintaining a dissatisfying status quo. So the arrival of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in the region seems like a bid to push yet another "reset" button and an acknowledgment that Washington has unfinished business there.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has begun a three-day tour of the Balkans, arriving at Sarajevo airport for what is seen as a bid to show Washington's commitment in the volatile former Yugoslavia.
Russia aims to speed up the new South Stream gas link to Europe by signing deals with transit states, and has rebuked the United States and former Soviet satellite states for backing a rival project.
NATO has launched military exercises in Georgia under a storm of criticism from Russia and following a rebellion in the Georgian military.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo during the week of May 18, focusing on a region that so far has not been high on the Obama administration's foreign policy agenda.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asked the Balkan country's international peace envoy on May 1 to lift restrictions placed on his friends and supporters for allegedly helping him hide before his arrest.
Milorad Dodik, the prime minister of Bosnia's Serbian entity, has evolved from a onetime darling of the international community to one of its most voluble critics. He spoke to RFE/RL about his views on Bosnia's future, his close ties to Serbia, and how the international community has failed the region.
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