By Miodrag SOVILJ BELGRADE, Dec 24, 2023 (AFP) – Serbian opposition demonstrators broke windows as they tried to storm Belgrade city hall on Sunday evening during protests over alleged election fraud, with police pushing them back with pepper spray, according to an AFP reporter on the scene. Demonstrators used flagpoles, rocks and eggs to break the windows of the capital’s administrative building and tried to break in, but were quickly pushed back by police. Around […]
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Serbian president vows to ‘disarm’ country after mass shootings
BELGRADE, May 5, 2023 (AFP) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic vowed on Friday to launch a large-scale disarmament plan to remove hundreds of thousands of guns from the country, following back-to-back mass shootings in the Balkan country this week. “We will do an almost complete disarming of Serbia,” Vucic said during a live broadcast, hours after the latest shooting killed eight people. The president said the plan aimed to remove hundreds of thousands of […]
Brown Danube: How Belgrade’s sewers taint Europe’s famous river
by Miodrag SOVILJ Agence France-Presse BELGRADE, Serbia (AFP) — Just down the road from Belgrade’s historic city centre, gates open for trucks to pass to the banks of the Danube, where they dump raw sewage into Europe’s venerated river. It’s not a secret operation, but rather a business nobody likes to mention in the Serbian capital — the only one in Europe to spew all of its unfiltered wastewater into the continent’s second-longest river. A […]





