The European Union should review Serbia's application to join the bloc as soon as possible, the EU's Spanish Presidency said today.
Nearly two years after Kosovo declared independence, the UN's special representative to the region reports that peace in the country’s north remains fragile, and tensions are high between ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians.
Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church today elected a new leader. Eighty-year-old Bishop Irinej Gavrilovic is Serbia's 45th patriarch and the successor to Patriarch Pavle, who died last November at the age of 95.
The highest body in the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Holy Assembly of Bishops, is meeting today to elect a new leader following the death of Patriarch Pavle late last year. The process, which involves an original voting system that includes an element of chance, may end with a new patriarch being picked as early as today.
The United States today extradited to Bosnia a former Serb policeman suspected of taking part in genocide against Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995, Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
The Serbian authorities have charged 15 people with the premeditated murder of a French soccer fan in Belgrade last September, the state prosecutor said today.
RFE/RL's Balkan Service correspondent Mirjana Rakela conducted an exclusive interview with newly elected Croatian President Ivo Josipovic on January 15 about his ideas on fighting corruption and bringing more stability to the Balkans.
The trial of Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj resumed this week at the UN war crimes court in The Hague after a year-long break due to the prosecution's concern about the reliability of some witnesses.
A statue of the U.S. actor Johnny Depp has been unveiled in Serbia.
At a confirmation hearing in Brussels, the EU's enlargement and neighborhood policy commissioner-in-waiting today gave strong backing to the EU's existing commitments to welcome the western Balkan countries and Turkey, but stopped short of endorsing the membership hopes of Ukraine and other eastern neighbors.
The Serbian Supreme Court has ruled that former Yugoslav General Vlado Trifunovic -- who was jailed after being declared a traitor -- should have his case retried, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
Russians and others are marking the Eastern Rite Christmas today, with the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill leading Russian Orthodox Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
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