Serbia

PARIS - Serbia's Novak Djokovic is through to the semi-finals of the men's tennis singles event at the Olympic Games in Paris after beating Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) on Thursday evening.

Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece leaves the court after losing to Serbia's Novak Djokovic in their men's quarter-final match at the Roland Garros stadium during the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on Thursday. Djokovic, overcoming issues with his surgically repaired right knee, came back from a significant deficit in the second set to defeat Tsitsipas 6-3, 7-6 (3).

BELGRADE - Serbia registered 6.6 pct more tourist visits in June 2024 relative to the same month of last year and the number of overnight stays was up by 6.0 pct y-o-y, according to figures released by the national statistical office.

Overnight stays generated by Serbian tourists were up by 1.8 pct y-o-y, while those generated by foreign tourists were up by 11.4 pct y-o-y.

BELGRADE - North Macedonian President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova will on Friday pay a working visit to Serbia during which she will visit the Prohor Pcinjski monastery in southern Serbia and meet with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic hosted a working luncheon for Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Li Ming on Thursday.

"With Ambassador Li Ming, I reviewed the bilateral relations between Serbia and China, our economic cooperation and the global geopolitical circumstances," Vucic wrote in a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram account.

PARIS - The Serbia men's 3x3 basketball team defeated the Netherlands 21-19 at the Paris Olympic Games on Thursday.

Strahinja Stojacic won the game for Serbia with a last-second two-pointer.

Marko Brankovic led the scoring for Serbia with nine points, Mihailo Vasic scored five and Dejan Majstorovic and Stojacic added four and three points, respectively.

LILLE - The Serbia men's national basketball team demolished Puerto Rico 107-66 in a Group C Round 2 game of the Olympic tournament in Lille on Wednesday evening.

Nikola Jokic led Serbia with 14 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists.

He did not play in the fourth quarter, finishing one assist short of becoming the fourth player in Olympic history to get a triple-double.

On Thursday (1/8), Greek athletes will compete in six different events on the 6th day of the Paris Olympics. Following Tselidis’ first Greek medal in judo, Antigoni Drisbioti and Apostolos Christou will be aiming for podium finishes in their respective finals.

BELGRADE - Serbian MPs adopted on Wednesday a Declaration on Protection of the National and Political Rights and the Joint Future of the Serbs.

One hundred and thirty-nine MPs voted for the declaration, nine voted against, there were no abstentions and six MPs took no part in the vote.

RIGA - Serbian FM Marko Djuric met with his Latvian counterpart Baiba Braze in Riga on Wednesday, and informed her of the difficult position of the Serb community in Kosovo-Metohija as well as of the challenges facing Serbia regarding that issue.

Djuric, who is on a one-day working visit to Latvia, noted that Serbia was very committed to finding rational and compromise solutions.