US sanctions authority permits preparatory MOL deal work on Serbia's NIS
An OFAC licence allows steps toward transferring Russian-origin shares but does not authorise the takeover itself.
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Protesters storm pro-government TV studio in Belgrade
About 20 demonstrators broke into the Informer studio on Monday evening, interrupting a live broadcast and demanding an apology from its editor-in-chief, Heute reported.
2 independent sources · 74% confidenceProsecutors say Belgrade embassy guard's shooting was self-defence
Serbia's prosecution service ruled a police officer acted in justified self-defence when he shot dead a knife-wielding teenager outside Israel's embassy in Belgrade.
71 independent sources · 98% confidenceProtesters storm Serbian TV channel Informer, demand apology
Citizens pushed broadcaster Informer's owner off air and broke a window on Monday night, as Serbia's political transition stays stalled weeks after the vote.
4 independent sources · 87% confidenceMasked men attack young men outside Serbia polling station
A group of masked men attacked several young men outside a polling station in Pančevo, Serbia, during Saturday's snap parliamentary election, leaving one bloodied, video showed.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceSerbia's Vucic concedes election defeat to student-led list
Aleksandar Vucic conceded defeat in Serbia's snap parliamentary election on Sunday, and overnight a pro-government tent camp in Belgrade was set on fire.
11 independent sources · 98% confidenceSerbian opposition draws tens of thousands in Belgrade before Sunday's vote
The student-backed Student List held its final rally before Sunday's election, with independent monitors estimating about 150,000 people in central Belgrade.
2 independent sources · 74% confidenceMasked gang attacks Dutch rugby players in Belgrade bar, 2 hurt
About ten masked men stormed a cafe terrace in central Belgrade overnight and injured 2 Dutch rugby internationals, Serbian media reported.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceSerbia arrests suspects accused of planning election-day riots
Police detained a group in Novi Sad and a man in Kraljevo suspected of plotting unrest in Belgrade on election day, Serbian broadcaster RTS reported.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceMEP and Serbia's acting president clash over EU election observers
Austrian MEP Andreas Schieder said protests against the EU's election-observer delegation to Serbia were unprecedented, after acting president Ana Brnabić accused its members of bias.
4 independent sources · 87% confidenceBomb hoax wave forces school evacuations across Serbia
Police evacuated schools in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sremska Mitrovica and the Loznica area on Monday after anonymous bomb-threat emails, officials said.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceAir Serbia diverts Istanbul flights to Izmir amid severe weather
Air Serbia arranged onward transport for passengers after weather disrupted services between Istanbul and Belgrade.
2 independent sources · 64% confidenceFire breaks out in apartment block near Belgrade's Metropol hotel
A blaze hit a flat in a multi-storey residential building in central Belgrade; emergency services said no one was injured.
2 independent sources · 59% confidenceBomb threat forces evacuation of Split-Belgrade flight
Passengers evacuated a Split-Belgrade flight on Monday after a man said there was a bomb aboard, delaying it more than three hours, a passenger said.
3 independent sources · 88% confidenceTwo men die in house fire in Serbian village near Belgrade
Paramedics found both men already dead when they reached a burning house in Progar, on Belgrade's western edge, late on Friday.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceSmoke from field fire causes 14-car pile-up on Serbian motorway
Reduced visibility from smoke drifting off burning farmland caused a chain-reaction crash involving 14 vehicles near Šimanovci, Serbia, injuring 11 people.
1 independent sources · 30% confidence