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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti, right, meet with European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, second left, in Brussels, on Feb. 27, 2023. The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo meet in Brussels on Tuesday May 2, 2023 to continue talks on the implementation of a European Union-backed 11-point plan to normalize ties between the two, but tensions continue to simmer. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Serbia, Kosovo leaders in EU-backed talks to normalize ties

By Florent Bajrami and Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, center, reviews the honor guard during a welcome ceremony before the military exercises at Batajnica military airport near Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, April 22, 2023. The populist leaders of Serbia and Hungary observed a Serbian military exercise Saturday, an event seen as a display of lethal firepower amid the war in Ukraine and tensions in the Balkans. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbian, Hungarian leaders attend military display in Serbia

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This is undated file photo of Slavko Curuvija, the owner and editor of two independent newspapers at the time, who was gunned down on April 11, 1999, in Belgrade, Serbia. A Serbian court on Friday, April 5, 2019 has sentenced four former state security agents to up to 30 years in prison for the killing 20 years ago of a prominent journalist who was a fierce critic of then-strongman Slobodan Milosevic. (AP Photo/Pedja Milosavljevic, File)

Serbian press marks unpunished 1999 killing of journalist

By Jovana Gec and Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Jakov Milatovic, center left, leader of the Europe Now movement, celebrates in his headquarters in Montenegro's capital Podgorica, Sunday, April 2, 2023. Milatovic, an economy expert and political novice, won the presidential runoff election on Sunday, defeating the pro-Western incumbent who has been in power for more than three decades in the small NATO member nation in Europe, the candidates and polls said.(AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

Jakov Milatovic, political novice, confirmed victorious in Montenegro election

By Predrag Milic - Associated Press

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, left, appears before the Kosovo Tribunal as he defends himself against charges including murder, torture and persecution allegedly committed during his country's war for independence from Serbia in the Hague, Monday, April 3, 2023. The trial of Kosovo's ex-president and three other former high-ranking members of the Kosovo Liberation Army charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity opens Monday. (Koen van Weel/Pool via AP)

‘Nobody is above the law’: Kosovo ex-president’s trial opens

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Hashim Thaci who resigned as Kosovo's president to face charges including murder, torture and persecution, and his attorney David Hooper, left, make their first courtroom appearance before a judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. An international prosecutor has indicted Thaci on 10 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes for his leadership of fighters with the Kosovo Liberation Army who are accused of illegally imprisoning, abusing and murdering captured opponents and perceived traitors during the war. (Jerry Lampen via AP Photo, Pool)

Protests held in Kosovo to support ex-war leaders on trial

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FILE - A Serbian army rocket launcher system fires missile during an exercise at Nikinci training ground, 60 kilometers west of Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Russia is seeking an official explanation from its ally Serbia about reports that the Balkan country has delivered thousands of rockets to Ukraine for its fight against the Russian aggression. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Serbia denies it has supplied weapons to Ukraine

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European Union envoy Miroslav Lajcak, center, addresses to the media with Francesco Talo, advisor to the Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni, left, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar, second left, Jens Plettner, advisor of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second right, and Emanuel Bonne, advisor of French President Emmanuel Macron, partially visible at right, after meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Western envoys on Friday were visiting Kosovo and Serbia as part of their ongoing efforts to defuse tensions and help secure a reconciliation agreement between the two. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Western envoys visit Kosovo, Serbia to defuse tensions

By Sylejman Kllokoqi and Llazar Semini - Associated Press

A man passes by a barricade made of trucks loaded with stones on a street in northern, Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. Serbs have erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

Kosovo Serb whose arrest caused crisis released from jail

By Radul Radovanovic and Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Kosovo government public affairs office, Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti, right, poses with the top NATO commander in Kosovo, Maj. Gen. Angelo Michele Ristuccia, in the capital Pristina, Kosovo, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. The two met amid heightened tensions in Kosovo's Serb-run north where NATO said unidentified armed men fired weapons near a NATO patrol unit. (Kosovo government public affairs office via AP)

NATO probing shooting incident in tense Kosovo north

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Trucks used as barricade are seen on the road near the village of Rudare, northern Kosovo, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. Kosovo has postponed the local election due to be held Dec. 18 in four municipalities with a predominantly ethnic Serb population, in an effort to defuse recent tensions there that have also further damaged relations with neighboring Serbia. President Vjosa Osmani on Saturday decided to postpone the voting until April 23 next year. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

Tensions run high in north Kosovo as Serbs block roads

By Sylejman Kllokoqi and Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Serb national flags decorate the main square in ethnically divided town Serb dominated northern Mitrovica on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. Kosovo law enforcement on Friday said one officer was injured by gunmen after increasing police presence fearing tension in northern areas dominated by the ethnic Serb minority. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo postpones election in ethnic-Serb-dominated north

By Zenel Zhinipotoku and Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Kosovo police officers guard the offices of the Central Election Committee in ethnically divided town of northern Mitrovica on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. Kosovo law enforcement on Friday said one officer was injured by gunmen after increasing police presence fearing tension in northern areas dominated by the ethnic Serb minority. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Serbia mulls sending troops to Kosovo as tensions escalate

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Serbia's Nikola Milenkovic, left, pushes Switzerland's Granit Xhaka during the World Cup group G soccer match between Serbia and Switzerland, in Doha, Qatar, Friday Dec. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Serbia charged by FIFA for team, fans conduct at World Cup

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Serbia's Aleksandar Mitrovic , 9, celebrates scoring his side's third goal during the World Cup group G soccer match between Cameroon and Serbia, at the Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Switzerland, Serbia meet for spot in last 16 at World Cup

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Brazil's Antony, right, talks with teammates during a training session at the Grand Hamad stadium in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. Brazil will face Cameroon in a group G World Cup soccer match on Dec. 2. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil rotates squad, Cameroon fights for World Cup survival

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press

Cameroon's Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, left, scores his side's third goal during the World Cup group G soccer match between Cameroon and Serbia, at the Al Janoub Stadium in Al Wakrah, Qatar, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Cameroon stages World Cup comeback after dropping goalkeeper

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

Brazil's Neymar, lies on the pitch as he receives first aid during the World Cup group G soccer match between Brazil and Serbia, at the the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar on Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Brazil with plenty of options to replace Neymar at World Cup

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press

Kosovo Serbs wave Serbian flags during a protest in Mitrovica, Kosovo, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. Several thousand ethnic Serbs on Sunday rallied in Kosovo after a dispute over vehicle license plates triggered a Serb walkout from their jobs in Kosovo's institutions and heightened ongoing tensions stemming from a 1990s' conflict. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

EU fails to defuse tense situation between Serbia and Kosovo

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Serb police officers took off their uniforms in the town of Zvecan, Kosovo, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. Representatives of the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo on Saturday resigned from their posts in protest over the dismissal of a police officer who did not follow the government's decision on vehicle license plates. Earlier this week Pristina authorities dismissed a senior Serb police officer in northern Kosovo, where most of the ethnic Serbs live, who refused to respect the decision to change vehicle license plates in Kosovo to ones issued by Kosovo. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

Kosovo’s ethnic Serb police, lawmakers resign en masse

By Zenel Zhinipotoku and Llazar Semini - Associated Press