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

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — 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...