Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic returned to his native Serbia on Monday, receiving a hero’s welcome from a throng of fans after the Australian government blocked him from participating in the Australian Open and deported him over a coronavirus vaccination dispute.
Australia’s federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, confirmed in an interview on Monday that tennis star Novak Djokovic received a valid Australian visa when he entered the country in early January, but claimed a “computer” was responsible for the error.
The German newspaper Der Spiegel reported on Tuesday that it had found evidence suggesting that someone had tampered with PCR test results showing tennis star Novak Djokovic had tested positive for Chinese coronavirus on December 16.
Organizers of the Australian Open on Tuesday officially granted Novak Djokovic the top seed at the tournament, which begins next Monday, even as the country’s Immigration Ministry threatens to abruptly deport him for not consuming a Chinese coronavirus vaccine product.
Nigel Farage said that tennis star Novak Djokovic’s visa court win was the first “big victory against the big state” in the pandemic era.
Police in Australia pepper-sprayed and clashed physically with a mob of supporters of tennis champion Novak Djokovic on Monday evening in Melbourne after the crowd began blocking car traffic and standing on a vehicle they appeared to believe carried Djokovic.
Brexit champion Nigel Farage has backed tennis ace Novak Djokovic against “big, bullying, nasty government” in Australia, where the Serbian athlete is currently being detained in a hotel.
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – The NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo said Saturday that a participating soldier from North Macedonia has died.
Australian top tennis player Nicholas Kyrgios condemned his government for the “really bad” handling of Serbian champion Novak Djokovic’s visa cancelation on Friday, imploring Canberra to “do better.”
Australian police banned Very Rev. Protopresbyter-Stavrophor Milorad Loncar, a member of the Serbian Orthodox clergy in Melbourne, on Friday from visiting detained tennis star Novak Djokovic, outraging Serbs around the world.
(AP) — Regardless of who made an error on the visa or the vaccination waiver or whatever, the reality Friday for tennis No. 1 Novak Djokovic was spending one of his important religious holidays in an Australian detention hotel working on his challenge against deportation.
Australia launched an investigation into the visas of other visiting unvaccinated tennis players Friday after the detention pending deportation of superstar Novak Djokovic.
Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic sparked a major controversy in Australia when he tried to enter the country to play in the upcoming Australian Open using a medical exemption for coronavirus vaccination. His request was initially granted, but his visa was revoked when he arrived at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne on Wednesday.
The family of tennis champion Novak Djokovic read a statement from the player at a press conference on Thursday in his native Belgrade, Serbia, delivered from captivity in a migrant facility in Australia.
Tennis superstar Novak Djokovic is being held in an Australian immigration detention facility after his entry visa was revoked. Canberra indicated Wednesday he will be removed from the country if a legal appeal fails.
Seven migrants were killed and three others injured when the vehicle they were traveling in crashed into a house while fleeing a police stop.
Police in North Macedonia have arrested two Pakistani nationals and two Afghans suspected of trafficking and allegedly torturing migrants.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – The chief international representative in Bosnia is warning that the war-scarred Balkan nation could face the biggest “existential threat of the post-war period” if the international community does not curb threatened separatist actions by Bosnian Serbs.
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia increased Wednesday after police in Kosovo clashed with ethnic Serbs during a police operation against the smuggling of goods. At least seven people were injured.
The West faces a serious challenge in “politics, mindsets, and different opinions” which had rendered women having children unfashionable.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has reiterated that he does not want to see a surge of Afghan migrants and praised Greece for reinforcing the external border of the European Union.
Kosovar President Vjosa Osmani on Sunday awarded his country’s Presidential Medal on the Rule of Law to Beau Biden, the late son of U.S. President Joe Biden.
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – A bus swerved off a highway and crashed in Croatia early Sunday, killing 10 people and injuring at least 30 others, police said.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has warned that “migrant armies are banging on Europe’s doors” as the coronavirus pandemic recedes.
(AP) — Bosnian authorities on Saturday demolished a Serbian Orthodox church that was illegally built on land owned by a Bosniak woman, a move that comes after a 20-year legal battle that saw the case reach the European Court of Human Rights.
A Spanish court on Thursday sentenced a Serbian man to life in prison after convicting him of three murders.
The U.S. Department of State praised the Trump-brokered formal establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Muslim-majority Kosovo.
Frontex, the European Union’s border agency, has announced the suspension of its operations in Hungary after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) claimed that the Hungarian government had failed to protect migrants.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – The leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, who often criticized Western policies toward Serbia and urged close relations with Slavic ally Russia, has died after testing positive for the coronavirus, the church said Friday. He was 90.
Serbian authorities will carry out “a complete revision of every death” related to coronavirus, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić said on Thursday.
Hungarian police say they have discovered at least 16 tunnels used by people traffickers to smuggle migrants across the border from neighbouring Serbia.
Polling firm Gallup has revealed that residents from many of the countries that formed the Balkan route of the 2015 European migrant crisis have some of the most negative views of migrants in the world.
Serbia and Kosovo agreed on Thursday to name a lake in a disputed territory after President Donald Trump.
Mike Pompeo said part of how President Donald Trump and his administration have achieved many of the foreign policy successes the past few years has been by working outside various “multilateral institutions” that are often bogged down by bureaucracy and inaction.
This is a miraculous development, one that the foreign policy establishment in Washington, DC, said was impossible. But it is happening, thanks to President Donald Trump.
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed Thursday that President Donald Trump has “put Israel in danger” — even as more and more Arab and Muslim states make peace with the Jewish state.
A member of the Swedish Parliament has nominated the United States under President Donald Trump for a second Nobel Prize for work in Kosovo and Serbia.
Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, praised the Trump administration’s Serbia-Kosovo agreement over the weekend, noting that it had made a special effort to include normalization of relations between Kosovo and Israel, and both Balkan countries putting embassies in Israel’s capital city of Jerusalem.
The Muslim-majority Balkan nation of Kosovo has agreed, along with neighboring Serbia, to establish full diplomatic relations will Israel and will open embassies in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced.
Beijing claimed on Monday that its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will support member nations struggling to restart their economies post-coronavirus pandemic and that, by doing so, it will help “rekindle hope” for the global economy.
