Serbia

Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojević, a mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and a former star player in his native Serbia, died Wednesday in Utah after suffering a heart attack, the team announced. Milojević, part of the staff that helped the Warriors win the 2022 NBA championship, was 46.

Serbian police said Friday they made seven arrests on suspicion of smuggling people into Hungary as part of a days-long crackdown.

Hundreds of Serbian officers were dispatched to a border area with Hungary after a shooting between migrants that killed three people.

Three people were killed and one more injured during a raging hours-long battle between migrant smuggling gangs at the Serbia-Hungary border.

Kosovo’s prime minister on Wednesday asked NATO-led peacekeepers to increase their presence on the northern border with Serbia.

Serbia’s president on Sunday denied reports of a military buildup along the border with Kosovo, following a shootout that killed four people.

Kosovo observed a day of mourning for the police officer killed by Serb gunmen who then barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery.

Gangs do battle with police and each other, leaving at least one dead and locals sleeping on the floor so not to catch a stray bullet in bed.

The Kosovo parliament erupted in a melee on Thursday after a lawmaker from the opposition party approached the podium and threw water on Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who was giving a speech about reducing tensions between Serbs and Albanians.

Nuggets star Nikola Jokic is thoroughly unimpressed by the thought of attending his team’s upcoming championship parade.

Turkey announced it will be sending a battalion to northern Kosovo in response to a NATO request for troops to help quell violent unrest.

Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo have reportedly attacked a large number of NATO troops in the country, spray-painting pro-Russian ‘Z’ symbols on military vehicles.

Serbia condemned NATO-led peacekeepers for their alleged failure to stop “brutal actions” by Kosovo police against ethnic Serbs.

Serbian authorities displayed around 13,500 weapons they say people have been handed over since this month’s mass shootings.

Serbians have begun handing over firearms, ammunition, and “pieces of mines and explosive devices” following President Aleksandar Vučić’s May 5 announcement of “almost total disarmament.” 

A man has been arrested in the town of Kragujevac after what the nation’s interior minister called a “terrorist act”.

Nine people were shot dead Wednesday morning when a seventh grader with two handguns opened fire in a school in Belgrade, Serbia, despite the nation’s stringent gun controls.

Police arrested a teenage male after a shooting in Belgrade, Serbia which killed at least nine, with the victims mainly children. 

A European professional basketball game ended prematurely on Thursday after players broke into a mass brawl on the court, seriously injuring one.

“Do you really think that it is possible to defeat Russia in a month, three months or a year?” he asked, adding: “There is no doubt that the goal of those who did this is to make it difficult for Putin to communicate, so that everyone who talks to him is aware that he is accused of war crimes.”

Tennis champion Novak Djokovic confirmed on Wednesday that he had applied for an exemption to far-left President Joe Biden’s ban on allowing foreigners into America who have not ingested coronavirus vaccine products, an attempt to participate in multiple high-profile tennis tournaments from which he has been banned under Biden.

An Afghan migrant that has now been convicted of multiple murders is said to have asked out a number of “14-year-old girls” while posing as a child in Britain.

Srdjan Djokovic, father of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, triggered a global uproar on Wednesday night for meeting with fans of his son’s at the ongoing Australian Open, some of whom were waving Russian flags and wearing the “Z” insignia associated with support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Former President Donald Trump blasted Jack Smith — the special counsel for the investigation into documents Trump brought to Mar-a-Lago at the end of his presidency — in a series of fiery Truth Social posts last week.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbs on Tuesday erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier, a day after Serbia put its troops near the border on a high level of combat readiness.

Kosovo signed a formal application seeking candidacy for the EU, prompting Serbia to immediately call on Brussels to turn it down.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Tensions were high in northern Kosovo on Sunday, with Serbs blocking roads after shots and explosions rang out overnight, Kosovo police and media reported. No injuries were reported.

The EU’s top diplomat was holding talks Monday in a bid to defuse tensions amid a dispute over vehicle license plates.

Hungary, Austria, and Serbia have agreed to coordinate to reduce illegal migrant flows on the Balkan route, with Serbia deploying more police along its southern border and Austria providing reinforcements.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Representatives of the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo on Saturday resigned from their posts in protest over the dismissal of a police officer who did not follow the government’s decision on vehicle license plates.

Video of a tennis coach in Serbia is going viral and shocking the tennis world as he is seen slapping and kicking a young female student.

Over 200 migrants were arrested this week after Serbian authorities cleared a makeshift migrant camp along the Hungarian border. Traffic along the Balkan migration route continues to surge.

European leaders met Monday in Budapest to discuss the surge of new activity along the Balkan migrant route.

The leaders of Hungary, Austria and Serbia met Monday in Budapest to find solutions on how to stem the increasing number of migrants.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – Serbia’s foreign minister on Sunday sought to play down the importance of an agreement with Russia after the Balkan state that is seeking European Union membership faced criticism for signing it.

ROME — Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic has cancelled EuroPride events scheduled to be celebrated in Belgrade in September, following massive street protests.