Serbian nationalists

A gunman apparently firing at random killed eight people and wounded 14 in a series of villages in Serbia, authorities said, shaking a nation still in the throes of grief over a mass shooting a day earlier. Police arrested a suspect Friday after an all-night manhunt.

Serbian police arrested a student following a shooting at an elementary school in the capital Belgrade on Wednesday, the interior ministry said.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with political representatives of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs in Raska, central Serbia, on Thursday.

The meeting will be held at the local cultural centre at noon, the presidential press office announced in a statement.

The meeting will also be attended by PM Ana Brnabic and government ministers.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday evening that, for now, Serbia was succeeding in maintaining its military neutrality and that it wanted to side neither with NATO nor with any other country.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled on Tuesday that Serbia violated the rights of Milan Radonjic and Ratko Romic, who are being tried for involvement in the 1999 murder of prominent Serbian journalist Slavko Curuvija.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will meet with North Macedonian PM Dimitar Kovacevski in Belgrade on Friday.

The meeting, to be held in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic, is scheduled for 9 am, the presidential press office announced in a statement.

The Humanitarian Law Centre NGO published a dossier on Thursday about the crimes committed by the Serbian Volunteer Guard paramilitary unit, also known as Arkan's Tigers, and urged the authorities in Belgrade to prosecute any suspects who are still alive.

The introductory part of the session of the Main Board will be open to the media, when President Aleksandar Vui will address the public, after which the session will be closed to the public. Also, after the session, statements for the media are planned.
Prior to the session of the Main Board, a session of the Presidency of the Serbian Progressive Party will be held.

Former head of Serbian State Security Radomir Markovic repeated to the appeal court that he is not guilty for the 1999 murder of the Serbian journalist and editor Slavko Curuvija.

Markovic claimed that Curuvija was only put under state surveillance "due to his contacts with foreign intelligence agencies …The task of every state security is to establish the nature of these contacts".

A lecture given by two well-known Serbian historians in Zagreb earlier this week has caused controversy in Croatia because it appeared to show sympathy for the Serbian nationalist Chetnik movement in World War II.