BELGRADE -- Talks between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission and the Serbian government ended without agreement in Belgrade on Thursday
BELGRADE -- The official middle exchange rate of the Serbian dinar (RSD) against the euro (EUR) is on Thursday RSD 108.4031, the central bank (NBS) announced.
CRNA TRAVA, BELGRADE -- Serbian President Boris Tadić toured southern Serbia on Wednesday and met with representatives of local emergency teams in the municipality of Crna Trava.
NEW YORK -- Russia's UN envoy has called on the Security Council to support Serbia's initiative for a Kosovo human organ trafficking probe under the auspices of the UN.
NEW YORK -- Russia supports the candidacy of Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić for president of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
BELGRADE -- The Serbian government recommended new measures for conserving energy and fuel while extremely low temperatures persist; river traffic shut down.
BELGRADE -- Two more persons have died from the cold in Serbia, increasing the death toll to 12.
NEW YORK -- Serbia's Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said in New York on Wednesday that negotiations were the only way to reach a sustainable and lasting solution for Kosovo.
BELGRADE -- The first working day of the Serbian parliament in 2012 was marked with the uncertainty whether MPs would be able to form a majority.
BELGRADE -- Italian Chamber of Deputies President Gianfranco Fini said on Wednesday Serbia had fulfilled all the conditions and should be granted the EU candidate status.
VIENNA -- EU mediator in the Belgrade-Priština dialogue Robert Cooper and head of the Belgrade negotiating team Borislav Stefanović conferred in Vienna on Wednesday.
BELGRADE -- Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says that an investigation will show whether Zemun gang members had some help in an attempt to escape from prison.
BELGRADE -- Serbia deserves the candidate status but I believe that now is not a good moment for the EU enlargement, European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz says.
BELGRADE -- Serbian parliament's Committee on Kosovo discussed Tuesday the government report on steps taken to stabilize the situation in Kosovo in the past three months.
BELGRADE -- Several Syrian citizens living in Serbia entered the yard of the Syrian embassy in Belgrade late on Wednesday and defaced its facade with graffiti.
KRAGUJEVAC -- Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac said Tuesday that the weapons factory Zastava Oružje (Zastava Arms) will sign contracts worth USD 330mn in 2012.
PRIŠTINA -- Hashim Thaci once again rejected the possibility of a special status for northern part of Kosovo, said reports from Priština on Wednesday.
BELGRADE -- The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) will try to form a joint state policy after elections, daily Večernje novosti writes.
KRAGUJEVAC -- Opposition SNS party leader Tomislav Nikolić on Wednesday joined a humanitarian campaign to buy baby incubators, launched by the B92 Fund.
BELGRADE -- In the first week of February, a new record donation by Milan Popović allowed the purchase of another ten modern Caleo incubators for prematurely born babies.
BELGRADE -- Several weeks of heavy snow and extremely cold weather in Serbia have had one positive side effect, Interior Minister Ivica Dačić has revealed.
BELGRADE -- Two new political parties have been registered in Serbia: the Movement for Serbia's Development and the Roma Union of Serbia.
SPLIT -- As many as 650 residents in Croatia's coastal Adriatic town of Split have received medical treatment for injuries sustained from falling in ice-covered streets.
MOSCOW -- A record low temperature in Russia this winter has been recorded in the Kamchatka Peninsula, minus 55 degrees Celsius.
BRUSSELS, HOMS -- The EU is preparing new sanctions against Syria’s regime. Many Western and Arab countries have recalled their ambassadors from Damascus.
"Germany must have a free-trade zone in Europe. Germany also needs robust demand in Europe. Germany also wants prudence in borrowing practices. And Germany must not see a return to the anti-German feeling of previous epochs."
A spokesman for the NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, says that this international mission "does not think there are parallel and illegal institutions in northern (Serb-dominated) Kosovo".
The Human Rights Watch international NGO has published its 22nd annual World Report, summarizing human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011.