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Serbia’s sole oil firm NIS, majority-owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft, is a frequent participant – sometimes the only corporate participant – in government working groups drafting energy legislation directly affecting the work of the company, according...

Aleksandar Vucic’s government in Serbia has been sabotaging negotiations with Kosovo over the latter’s international status. That much is apparent to anyone who has followed the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue since its inception in 2011. What has only recently become...

The new issue of the Woman’s Weekly fiction special is out now, promising its readers short stories from writers who “never fail to come up with new twists and turns and unexpected plots”. But, in a...

Elon Musk has said the past year of his professional life has been “excruciating” and that stress over his business had caused his health to deteriorate. To make matters worse, the confession wiped billions off the value...

Vladimir Putin is to attend the wedding of Austria’s foreign minister, Karin Kneissl, triggering outrage among critics who say the invitation undermines the EU’s stance against Russia over Ukraine. The Russian president will drop by on Saturday...

More than 324 people have died in the worst flooding in nearly a century in the south Indian state of Kerala. Roads are damaged, mobile phone networks are down, an international airport has been closed and...

At a meeting in Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic help in implementing the rule of law and fighting against corruption. Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic said he talked with German...

Bosnian Serb war crimes defendants Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic welcomed the UN court’s decision to allow them to make online video calls to their families while in detention. Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s...

Serbian police closed the camp run by war veterans on Mount Zlatibor that gave military training to children as young as 14, citing concerns about the possible abuse of minors. Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said...

The electoral fraud trial of Macedonia’s ex-premier Nikola Gruevski and other ex-officials  heard tapes of wiretapped conversations that the prosecution claims shows their involvement in vote-rigging schemes. The Skopje court on Friday continued to hear more...