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Belgrade – A controversial Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) bishop is likely to face a tribunal for his latest run-in with the church over a drug rehabilitation centre where addicts are severely abused, reports said Tuesday.

Washington/Belgrade  – US Vice President Joe Biden embarks next week on a tour of the Balkans to “refocus” on the region and “reset” uneasy relations with Serbia, the largest and central former Yugoslav republic.

Belgrade – Serbia and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Monday in Belgrade signed a 250 million euro (341 million dollars) credit intended to support the Balkan country’s small and medium-sized enterprises.

Pristina – Former Kosovo prime minister Agim Ceku, who was expelled from Colombia after being sought by Serbia for war crimes, on Saturday accused Belgrade of issuing “political and judicially unfounded warrants.”
Colombia on Thursday expelled Ceku who was attending a conference on disarmament in Cartagena. Serbian officials issued an Interpol warrant and wanted Ceku arrested [...]

Belgrade – Red Star Belgrade’s Macedonian coach Cedomir Janevski has resigned, the Serbian club said on Saturday.
“Janevski is no longer prepared to be in charge of Red Star and has agreed to cancel his contract with the club,” the club said on its website.

Belgrade – Belgrade police on Monday arrested Serbia’s most powerful outlaw figure Sreten Jocic on suspicion of murdering Croatian editor and publisher Ivo Pukanic last year, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said. Dacic said Jocic, aka Joca Amsterdam, was arrested in a coordinated police action and that he is suspected of participating in the murder [...]

Belgrade  – Red Star Belgrade, Serbia’s best known football team which has sunk into total disarray, suffered another blow when its president Dobrivoje Tanasijevic resigned, local media reported Saturday.

Belgrade  – Serbia is “wasting respect” by altering the conditions it offered for a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the country’s central bank chief said in an interview released Wednesday.

Brussels  – After NATO bombed the then-Yugoslavia for 78 days in 1999 to force Serbian forces to pull out of Kosovo, the commanding US General Wesley Clark was asked how many targets were destroyed.

Belgrade  – NATO unleashed its first-ever strike on March 24, 1999 against the then-Yugoslavia, with an aim of ending the heavy – handed rule of Slobodan Milosevic’s regime in Kosovo. After 78 days of bombing Belgrade capitulated, paving the way for the entry of a United Nations administration and a NATO-led peacekeeping mission.