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FILE - President Donald Trump listens to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speak during a signing ceremony with Kosovar Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti, in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Serbian leader speaks to Trump, pointing out Serb support during U.S. election

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People hold a giant Serbian flag during the ceremony on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belgrade from Nazi occupation in WWII by Soviet and local communist fighters, in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia’s president talks with Putin and vows he’ll never impose sanctions on Russia

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FILE - Two French Dassault Rafale fighter jets fly after a signing ceremony between French President Emmanuel Macron and Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic in Zagreb, Croatia, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Macron starts a two-day state visit to Serbia on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024 with the focus on a possible sale of 12 Rafale multi-purpose fighter jets. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

France’s Macron to visit Serbia with a possible deal to sell French warplanes in a shift from Russia

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, right, shakes hands with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, left, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, May 13, 2024. Kuleba, who has arrived on a surprise visit to Russia-friendly Serbia, held talks on Monday in Belgrade in a sign of warming relations between the two states. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Ukraine’s first lady and foreign minister visit Russia-friendly Serbia

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Opposition lawmakers hold banners reading: "Stole the elections" during a Serbia's parliament constitutive session in Belgrade, Serbia, Feb. 6, 2024. Officials say a key vote for control of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade is to be rerun later this year. The announcement follows months of soaring political tensions over claims that the ruling populists of President Aleksandar Vucic orchestrated a fraud in the vote for Belgrade’s city assembly. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

An election for control of Serbia’s capital is to be rerun following opposition fraud claims

By Jovana Gec - Associated Press

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic reviews the honor guard during a welcoming ceremony at the army barracks in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. Serbia should reintroduce compulsory military service, the Balkan country's president said Tuesday, citing tensions in the Balkans and elsewhere in Europe. After a meeting with top army commanders, President Aleksandar Vucic said that they gave him "a strong argumentation" in favor of the mandatory draft, which was suspended in 2011 in a push to professionalize the armed forces, should be reintroduced. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia considers reintroducing a mandatory military draft as regional tensions simmer

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic celebrates in his party headquarters after a parliamentary and local election in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. Serbia's governing populists claimed a sweeping victory Sunday in the country's parliamentary election, which was marred by reports of major irregularities both during a tense campaign and on voting day. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Near-final results confirm populist victory in Serbia while the opposition claims fraud

By Jovana Gec - Associated Press

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic waves to his supporters during a pre-election rally of his ruling Serbian Progressive Party in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. Serbia's President Vucic is pushing hard to reassert his populist party's dominance at this weekend's early parliamentary and local elections that observers say are being held in an atmosphere of intimidation and media bias. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia’s Vucic seeks to reassert populist dominance in elections this weekend

By Jovana Gec - Associated Press

Kosovo police officers patrol an area near Banjska Monastery during a ongoing police operation in the village of Banjska on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Kosovo on Monday observed a day of mourning for the Kosovar Albanian police officer killed by Serb gunmen who then barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in a siege that further raised tensions as the two wartime foes seek to normalize ties. In the north, where most of Kosovo’s ethnic Serb minority lives in four municipalities around Mitrovica, police were patrolling in search of the armed assailants after they left the monastery. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

What is behind renewed tensions between Serbia and Kosovo?

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

People walk past a mural painted in colours of the Serbian flag, that reads: "When the Army returns to Kosovo…" in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, July 13, 2023. Kosovo is a former province in Serbia whose 2008 declaration of independence Belgrade does not recognize. Most ethnic Serbs in Kosovo also have refused to acknowledge Kosovo's statehood that is backed by the United States and most EU nations but not Russia and China. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Top U.S. and EU lawmakers say West is too soft on Serbia when it comes to easing Kosovo tensions

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press