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Several hundred employees of Serbia’s public education sector have rallied in the center of the capital, Belgrade, urging the government to withdraw proposed new legislation on public-service employees and calling for a 25 percent increase in their salaries.
Prominent figures in Serbia have petitioned the country's Constitutional Court asking it to intervene to stop pro-government media from threatening independent journalists, activists, and artists.
A Croatian court has sentenced a former Serb paramilitary commander to 15 years in prison for war crimes committed during the conflict that engulfed the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
Political campaigning for the sixth local elections to be held in Macedonia officially started on September 25.
British actor and director Ralph Fiennes received a Serbian passport and an ID card from the Balkan country's president after he was granted citizenship earlier this month.
Some 200 people attended an LGBT pride parade in Montenegro on September 23 calling for more rights and tougher punishment for violent acts against gay people in the small Balkan nation.
Ana Brnabic, the first openly gay prime minister in the Balkan region and the first Serbian woman in the top job, has joined about 1,000 gay activists at Belgrade's gay-pride parade.
Serbia's Red Cross says it is gathering information from people in Kosovo to help address the needs of the community and not conducting what police allege was an illegal census of ethnic Serbs in the country.
Police in Kosovo say they have raided premises used by Serbia's Red Cross in the country, confiscating documents suspected of being used to conduct an illegal census of ethnic Serbs.
More than 100 people gathered in front of Macedonia’s parliament to protest against a draft law to extend the official use of Albanian language to the entire country, as lawmakers started debating the bill.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Bosnian leaders on September 7 and discussed establishing state borders, trade, infrastructure, and other economic issues.
Serbian prosecutors say they have charged five people with torturing and killing 20 men, mostly Serbian Muslims, during the 1990s war in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina.
A coalition headed by the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has agreed to a deal with the junior New Alliance for Kosovo party to form a government, ending three months of political gridlock sparked by inconclusive elections.
The presidents of Serbia and Kosovo are meeting in Brussels on August 31 as part of an effort to move forward dialogue between the two neighbors and normalize ties.
The first gay-pride information center has opened in Belgrade to disseminate information about gay-pride week and a pride parade that will be held on September 17.
A controversy has broken out after a school in the Bosnian capital was renamed for a Bosniak scholar who supported Nazi Germany.
The Serbian and Macedonian foreign ministers have met to try to resolve issues between the two neighbors following diplomatic tensions that saw Belgrade abruptly recall all staff from its embassy in Skopje.
The leaders of Serbia and Macedonia agreed on August 23 to promote dialogue between the two neighbors and to “jointly strive” to improve relations, after Belgrade abruptly recalled all staff from its embassy in Skopje.
Former Kosovar Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi was laid to rest on August 22 in a funeral ceremony in his native village of Shipol, near Mitrovica in northern Kosovo.
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