Serbia still suffering after wars, isolation
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LESKOVAC, Serbia -- The crumbling factory walls and idle smokestacks that dominate this town are replicated across Eastern Europe, symbols of once-proud industrial centers that fell into decline almost as soon as the Berlin Wall came down.
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Serbia is sliding back into  international isolation because it has failed to hand over  indicted war criminals to the U.N. court in The Hague, a senior  U.S. official said Thursday.
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VIENNA  - Kosovo sees no way forward in talks with Serbia and will move towards independence by the end of the year, the prime minister of the breakaway province said after another inconclusive round of negotiations here.All Serbia is talking about is the past Mediators from the United States, Russia and the European Union have until December 10 to try to bridge the chasm between Serbia's offer of autonomy for Kosovo and the 90-percent Albanian majority's demand for independence. "We are really looking for a way forward, but after this meeting we must conclude that we haven't found it," Agim Ceku told Austrian daily Der Standard Tuesday.  "All Serbia is talking about is the past," he said.
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Serbia is sliding back into international isolation because it has failed to hand over indicted war criminals to the U.N. court in The Hague, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.
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"Anyone who wants Serbia as a partner has to know Serbia will accept partnership only as a whole country, not as a country cut in two"  Serb Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica warned the European Union on Tuesday that sending a supervisory mission to the breakaway province of Kosovo could damage relations with Serbia. via The Washington Post
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"Ask anybody the name of a Russian film director, composer or even rock group and they will struggle, but they can name five or six American directors"  BELGRADE, Serbia - As the dispute over Kosovo 's future nears a climax, the Serbian government has enlisted the support of some the world's best known statesmen - all of them dead. via New York Times
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Serbia will never recognize an independent Kosovo but will not use violence to prevent the country's ethnic Albanians from establishing their own state, Serbia's president said on Wednesday.
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'Turbo-folk' - a musical style identified with the Milosevic era - is still all the rage in Serbia, Matt Prodger reports.
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Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday.
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GORAZDEVAC, Serbia and Montenegro  - Milisav Dakic  said his wife had warned him not to let the children play  outside their Serb enclave in Kosovo. But the summer heat was  stifling, and the nearby stream was a popular place to cool  off.
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Serbian government claim comes amid fears that the move will trigger renewed instability in region
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Relations between the United States and Serbia are worsening because of U.S. support for the independence of Kosovo, Serbia's prime minister warned Monday.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - The progress made in Kosovo since a 1998-99 war risks unraveling without a decision on the Albanian majority's demand for independence from Serbia, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a report.
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Serbia has the political will to arrest top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, but some state officials are still stalling, United Nations chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte said on Friday.
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Serbia and Montenegro has reiterated that Serbia and Montenegro considered status of Kosovo within its state framework.
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Serb nationalist Vojislav Seselj - on trial in The Hague - remains a hero for many Serbs, writes Nick Hawton.
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Serbia's pro-Western president Boris  Tadic has won re-election in a contest with nationalist  Tomislav Nikolic, but his narrow victory may only have set up a  fresh struggle over the country's future course.