Serbia's striking students set off on 2-day march north as their protest movement widens

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — They packed up food, water and extra clothes and set off. Hundreds of Serbian university students on Thursday started an 80-kilometer (50-mile) march toward the northern city of Novi Sad, the latest endeavor in their widening protest movement over a deadly...

The oldest evidence for lead pollution comes from ancient Greece

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the...

Daily anti-corruption protests are rattling Serbia's leader. What might come next?

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — If Serbian President Aleksander Vucic hoped the resignation of his hand-picked prime minister would get students to end nearly three months of anti-corruption protests, he didn’t have to wait long for an answer. Hours after Milos Vucevic stepped away...

Serbia's prime minister resigns as anti-corruption protests sparked by deadly collapse swell

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s populist prime minister, Milos Vucevic, resigned Tuesday in an attempt to calm political tensions stoked by weeks of massive anti-corruption protests that started after the deadly collapse of a concrete overhang at a recently renovated train station. ...

Serbia’s Prime Minister Milos Vucevic steps down as anti-corruption protests grow over a deadly canopy fall

Serbian farmers join striking university students' 24-hour traffic blockade in Belgrade

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia's striking university students on Monday launched a 24-hour blockade of a key traffic intersection in the capital, Belgrade, stepping up pressure on the populist authorities over a deadly canopy collapse in November that killed 15 people. Serbian...

A driver rams an anti-government rally in Serbia's capital and injures one protester

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — A woman rammed a car into a crowd of anti-government protesters in Serbia's capital and injured one of them Friday, police said, as a student-led strike shut down businesses and drew tens of thousands of people to demonstrations around the country. The...

Croatia warns against travel to Serbia after 5 civil society activists were deported

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia warned its citizens Thursday to postpone unnecessary travel to neighboring Serbia after the deportation of five Croatian activists who had taken part in a meeting of civil society organizations in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. The Croatian activists...

Novak Djokovic gets his apologies and is ready to focus on Carlos Alcaraz at the Australian Open

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic got the mea culpas he wanted from the Australian Open's local broadcaster and its employee who insulted him on the air and so, according to tournament organizers, the 24-time Grand Slam champion is ready to concentrate on his quarterfinal showdown with...

8 people die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Serbia, officials say

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Eight people died Monday in a fire at a home for older people on the outskirts of the Serbian capital, Belgrade, that is suspected of being set by a resident, officials said. Seven others were injured in the blaze that erupted around 3:30 a.m. in Barajevo, a...