🇷🇸 NEW: Serbian opposition leaders barricade themselves in Novi Sad City Hall; police successfully remove them after a tense standoff

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🇷🇸 / 🇷🇺 NEW: A Serbian man and Russian captain, Bratislav Živković, killed near Kursk on January 2, 2025, was buried in Kruševac

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🇭🇷 / 🇮🇹 NEW: Croatian pickpocket Anja Zahirović, caught for the 150th time in Italy, avoids jail again due to her frequent pregnancies

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🇺🇸 / 🇨🇳 / 🇷🇸 NEW: US bans imports from a Chinese company owning Serbian mining operations, citing human rights violations involving Uyghur labor in Xinjiang

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🇷🇸 NEW: Fuel prices in Serbia rise again: diesel now costs 204 dinars per liter, and gasoline 187 dinars

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🇷🇸 NEW: Tribute paid at the Skelani monument to 305 Serbian civilians and soldiers killed in 1993 during the Bosnian war

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🇷🇸 NEW: Damjan Knežević stops a driver attempting to run over students in Belgrade

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🇷🇸 NEW: Serbian tennis player olga danilović advances to the round of 16 at the australian open

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🇷🇸 / 🇧🇦 NEW: Serbian Patriarch Chrysostom denounces harassment in sarajevo: "they block our entrance with cars"

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🇷🇸 NEW: Serbia announces new national front uniting society, with rallies starting January 24 and President Vučić expected to join

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🇺🇸 / 🇷🇸 NEW: US expands sanctions in Republika Srpska, targeting officials accused of undermining Bosnia’s territorial integrity and Dayton Agreement

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🇷🇸 NEW: "Bloody hand" protests spread in Serbia, echoing tactics from color revolutions in North Macedonia, Albania, and Russia

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🇺🇸 / 🇷🇺 / 🇷🇸 NEW: US Ambassador pushes for Russian exit from Serbia’s oil sector, emphasizing energy sovereignty and reducing Moscow’s influence

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🇷🇸 / 🇭🇺 NEW: Serbia and Hungary to ensure the security of the 'Turkish Stream' pipeline amid threats of a new energy crisis in Europe

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🇷🇸 NEW: Serbia accuses Western agents of inciting student protests as part of a 'color revolution' attempt

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🇧🇬 / 🇺🇦 URGENT: Leader of the Vazrazhdane (Revival) nationalist Bulgarian party, Kostadin Kostadinov, claims Southern Bessarabia for Bulgaria

"Bulgarians make up the majority of the population."

"There is nothing more logical than returning the region back to Bulgaria."

"Ukraine is collapsing, and at the future peace congress, which will decide the fate of the so-called failed Ukrainian statehood, Bulgaria must assert its claims over Bulgarian Bessarabia."

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🇷🇸 / 🇺🇸 NEW: Serbian president Vučić thanks outgoing US ambassador for improving bilateral relations

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🇪🇺 / 🇽🇰 NEW: EU sends 100 observers to monitor Kosovo parliamentary elections set for February 9.

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🇹🇷 / 🇽🇰 NEW: Turkish military conducts sniper training with Kosovo security forces amid regional tensions.

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