Serbian Interior Ministry

Shooting in a Serbian elementary school - a 14-year-old boy opened fire and killed 9 people. The attack took place in the capital Belgrade.

The seventh-grader, whose identity has not been released, first shot his history teacher. After that, the young man started shooting at his classmates.

Kosovo's Supreme Court on Thursday made public its ruling confirming the sentencing of Goran Stanisic to 15 years' imprisonment for war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in the town of Lipjan/Lipljan during the Kosovo war in 1999.

The Supreme Court ruling upheld the previous Court of Appeals verdict convicting Serb wartime reservist policeman Stanisic.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic is on an official visit to the UAE, where he attended the ceremonial opening of the March 7-9 World Police Summit in Dubai, the Serbian Interior Ministry said in a statement.

BELGRADE - Serbia will send rescue teams to quake-stricken Turkey, a source in the Serbian Interior Ministry has confirmed to Tanjug.

The Ministry's Emergencies Sector will send 21 rescue specialists and three liaison officers, the source said.

Club 451 in Belgrade announced on Tuesday evening that it has cancelled a concert by Swiss nationalist singer Ewiger Sturm that was planned for March 12.

The UN's Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague has rejected an application for early release from prison from former Serbian Interior Ministry official Vlastimir Djordjevic, citing serious concerns about his level of rehabilitation.

Serbian police on Tuesday arrested civic activist Vanja Calovic and illustrator Jelena Jacimovic for throwing eggs at a mural of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic on the wall of a residential building in Belgrade.

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights, a Belgrade-based NGO, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Serbian Interior Ministry after it banned rights activists from organising a public gathering to paint over a mural of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic on the wall of a residential building in the capital.

Pristina Basic Court found Goran Stanisic guilty on Tuesday of war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in the town of Lipjan/Lipljan during the Kosovo war in 1999 and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.

On Wednesday however, the Serbian Interior Ministry denied that Savcic had entered the country. The Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina also said he had not been registered as leaving.

By disappearing, Savcic became one of dozens of war crime defendants or convicts who are unavailable to the Bosnian judicial authorities. Most of them are in Serbia.