Nov 20 - By Associated Press
Serbian police say they have arrested another suspect in the fatal attack on a French soccer fan in Belgrade two months ago.

Nov 19 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Hundreds of thousands of people joined a somber funeral procession Thursday for Patriarch Pavle, the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the Balkans' bloody ethnic conflicts in the 1990s.

Nov 16 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Thousands of people waited on long lines Monday to pay their respects to the late Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle at a church in Belgrade.

Nov 15 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle, who called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic wars of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn extreme Serb nationalism, died Sunday. He was 95.
Nov 13 - By Associated Press
Serbia's health authorities have ordered three million swine flu vaccines from Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG worth an estimated euro24 million ($36 million).
Nov 12 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Pretrial hearings in the case of a Serb accused of beating a fellow student into a coma in the United States will begin in December, a Serbian court said Thursday.
Oct 22 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Serbia will become a major hub for distribution of Russian natural gas to Europe thanks to the storage and transport capacities of the planned South Stream pipeline, the general manager of Serbia' state energy company said Thursday.

Oct 20 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sought to expand Moscow's political and economic influence in the Balkans on Tuesday by bringing a euro1 billion ($1.5 billion) loan to recession-hit Serbia and offering Belgrade a "strategic partnership" in the distribution of Russian gas to Europe.
Oct 8 - By Associated Press
Serbia's soccer federation was fined for rowdy crowd behavior and warned by FIFA the team could lose points if problems persist at remaining World Cup qualifying matches.

Oct 1 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Serbian prosecutors will request that three soccer fan groups with a history of violence and suspected of recently killing a French fan be banned, a spokesman said Thursday.
Sep 30 - By Associated Press
Two of the Belgrade Zoo's kangaroos died Wednesday, one of them a baby that got loose in downtown Belgrade and was killed by an apparent hit-and-run driver, police said.
Sep 29 - By Associated Press
A Bosnian man accused in the near-fatal beating of a Binghamton University student has pleaded guilty in New York to felony assault.

Sep 29 - By Jovana Gec, Associated Press Writer
Thousands gathered in downtown Belgrade on Wednesday to mourn the death of a 28-year-old French soccer fan who was fatally beaten by Serbian hooligans.
Sep 28 - By Associated Press
Former Serb paramilitaries took part in last week's brazen helicopter raid of a cash depot in Stockholm, Serbian police officials said Monday.
Sep 21 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
The Serbian war crimes court acquitted two former Serb policemen Tuesday of collaborating in the execution-style slaying of three Albanian-American brothers in 1999.
Sep 19 - By Associated Press
Organizers have canceled Serbia's gay pride march after authorities said they could not guarantee protection for the event from extremist groups.
Sep 13 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Serbia will have to lay off about one-fifth of its government employees — 14,000 people — to meet conditions set by the International Monetary Fund to receive more financial aid, the country's finance minister said Monday.
Sep 3 - By Associated Press
A series of explosions at an underground ammunition factory in central Serbia killed at least seven people and injured 15, police said Friday.
Aug 31 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Serbia may offer Iraq some planes from its aging air force and train pilots to partly make up for fighter jets sent here for maintenance during the Saddam Hussein era that have now been deemed useless, officials said Friday.
Aug 3 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Europe's top human rights watchdog launched a probe Monday into Serb allegations that ethnic Albanian guerrillas kidnapped Serb civilians during Kosovo's war, then removed their organs and sold the body parts on the black market.
Jul 24 - By Associated Press
U.N. judges convicted the leader of Serbia's largest political party of contempt of court Friday for revealing the names of three protected witnesses who testified at his war crimes trial.
Jun 24 - By Jovana Gec, Associated Press Writer
Thousands of athletes who will be competing in next month's World University Games in Serbia will be required to provide a certificate saying they do not have swine flu, or they will be quarantined, the government said Wednesday.
Jun 23 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Serbian prosecutors filed war crimes charges on Friday against 17 former Kosovo guerrillas for the alleged murder, rape and torture of Serb civilians.
Jun 17 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
Four former members of a notorious Serb paramilitary unit were convicted Thursday of gunning down 14 Kosovo Albanian civilians, including children and the elderly, in 1999, and were sentenced to between 15 and 20 years in prison.
Jun 11 - By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press Writer
A lawyer for the families of three Albanian-American brothers murdered execution-style in Serbia in 1999 said Thursday she is quitting their murder trial, claiming authorities are protecting those who ordered the slayings.