NATO soldiers injured in Kosovo clashes with Serb protesters
Leposavic, Kosovo Reuters Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serb protesters on Monday, while Serbia’s President put the army on the highest level of combat alert. KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping mission to Kosovo, condemned the violence. “While countering the most active fringes of the […]
After two mass shootings, can Serbia rid itself of guns?
Belgrade, SerbiaReuters After Serbia was rocked by two mass shootings in two days earlier in May, Branko, 54, surrendered his unlicensed arms under a government amnesty: four assault rifles, nine handguns, eight grenades and many boxes of ammunition. The huge cache of weapons handed over by just one veteran of the wars that tore apart […]
Serbian Orthodox Church picks ally of president as Patriarch
Belgrade, SerbiaAP Serbian Orthodox Church bishops elected an ally of the country’s populist president Thursday as the new leader who is succeeding the church Patriarch who died after contracting the coronavirus. Bells tolled on the sprawling Saint Sava Temple in Belgrade where senior Serbian bishops met to announce Metropolitan Porfirije as the new patriarch of […]
Serbia protests priests’ detention in Montenegro
Podgorica, MontenegroAP Serbia on Wednesday strongly protested the detention of eight Serbian Orthodox Church priests in Montenegro after thousands of people attended a religious procession despite a ban on gatherings because of the coronavirus. Montenegrin prosecutors said that the priests are facing charges of violating health regulations during the virus outbreak by organising the procession […]