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Serbia's government has agreed with U.S. Steel to buy back its loss-making plant in the Balkan country for a symbolic $1, with a goal to avoid its closure and the layoff of 5,400 of its workers, the prime minister said Friday.
As the world nervously watches whether European leaders can save the EU from breakup, another drama brews on the sidelines: the membership struggles of nations trying to break in.
Business was once so bad at Smederevo's steel plant that it idled production and grew mushrooms in its halls instead.
The young man wore a long beard and pants that stopped above his ankles. He sprayed the U.S. embassy in Bosnia with machine gun fire.
When Serbia arrested war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic earlier this year, it seemed to have cleared the key obstacle to its journey to the European Union.
Serbia's police say they have detained six people and prevented a gathering of a pro-Russian far-right group that threatened to burn an EU flag and spit on the portrait of the U.S. ambassador in Belgrade.
Not in her wildest dreams did Edmonda ever imagine she'd marry a guy like Zoran, have his baby and live in his country.
EU-mediated talks between Serbia and Kosovo will resume next month and focus on the customs stamps that have triggered tensions between the two Balkan states, a Serbian official said Wednesday.
The angry Serb mobs have dwindled and NATO reinforcements are regaining the upper hand, but over a week of ugly tensions on the border between Serbia and Kosovo has shattered hopes of a quick rapprochement between the two Balkan foes.
After a heated 10-hour debate, Serbia's parliament passed a resolution early Sunday calling for a peaceful resolution of the nation's worst crisis with Kosovo since the province declared independence three years go.
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The old man, hobbled by pain, couldn't coax himself to sleep. He got out of bed just before dawn, pulled on a blue baseball cap and headed for a walk in the garden. Maybe some fresh air would clear his head.
Gen. Ratko Mladic's ruthlessness was legendary: "Burn their brains!" he once bellowed as his men pounded Sarajevo with artillery fire.
At 92, Elvira Fishl still sobs as she recalls the long-ago "Great Raid," a three-day killing spree by occupying pro-Nazi troops that left about 1,300 people dead — and her among the few survivors to bear witness.
Anger at a U.N. court's jailing of a Croatian war hero erupted into fury at the European Union and this country's pro-Western government on Saturday when thousands of enraged veterans of the Balkan conflict tore EU flags and denounced the conservative administration.
Serbia's flamboyant folk music queen Svetlana Raznatovic, better known as Ceca, pleaded guilty to embezzling millions in exchange for a lenient sentence, prosecutors said Tuesday, bringing to an end a legal soap opera that has transfixed the country.
NATO war planes hit tanks with deadly precision, with the aim of degrading a despot's army and leveling the playing field for a ragtag rebel force. In many ways, the air strikes on Libya mirror the Western alliance's Serbia campaign 12 years ago.
The minarets and Turkish coffeehouses in this southern Serbian town are reminders of the Muslim empire that once shook Europe's foundations by pushing armies all the way to the gates of Vienna.
As Libya churned with popular rebellion, Serbia's ex-president flew to Tripoli to arrange an interview with Moammar Gadhafi for a Serbian TV channel — giving the Libyan leader a platform to bluster about his grip on power.
It was carried through the streets of Cairo during the revolution that ousted president Hosni Mubarak: a black flag emblazoned with a clenched white fist.
Tens of thousands of nationalist supporters rallied against Serbia's pro-Western government on Saturday, demanding early elections amid the Balkan country's deepening economic crisis.
A Belgrade court on Tuesday convicted 14 Serbs of the fatal beating of a French soccer fan, describing a brutal scene in which the attackers cornered the man, hit him with iron bars and threw him down a narrow stairway.
Bags of cash delivered to the office of a prime minister with a penchant for expensive watches. A dizzying fortune amassed by another from years of tobacco smuggling.
Serbia urged international authorities on Monday to investigate allegations of a trade in the kidneys and other organs of civilians slain in the aftermath of Kosovo's 1999 war for secession, officials said.
Serbia celebrated its first Davis Cup title Sunday, becoming only the second unseeded nation to win the trophy when Viktor Troicki beat Michael Llodra 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 to complete a 3-2 combeback win over France.
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