Serbia's Parliament

First results suggest an ethnic Albanian coalition has secured a seat in Serbia's parliament, ending a marathon battle that began with the April Serbian general elections.

"Everyone likes to stay in his own place, his home, but here people do not see any prospects," Salihi says.

Sitting in the village café in front of the community office, Salihi says the large ethnic Albanian diaspora keeps life in the village ticking, thanks to their remittances.

Muamer Zukorlic's coffin being carried to his grave. Photo: Muamer Zukorlic/Facebook

"As part of the investigation, a statement was taken from Usame Zukorlic [son of Muamer Zukorlic], and then an order was given to exhume the body of the late Muamer Zukorlic, with which the family agreed," the prosecutor's office told Radio Sto Plus on Thursday.

Hopes have faded for the opposition parties ahead of Sunday's elections in both Serbia and Hungary with longtime rulers Viktor Orban and Aleksandar Vucic poised to win.

Borisav Jovic, one of last presidents of the presidency of socialist Yugoslavia prior to its break-up, a key ally of Slobodan Milosevic and a leading figure in his ruling Socialist Party, died on Monday as a consequence of contracting COVID-19.

She underlined Vucic's words from the opening of the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union that Serbia is an independent and sovereign country, emphasizing that not everyone has such a privilege as Serbia.

The law will come to force eight days from the publication in the Official Gazette. Serbia's Parliament also adopted today the Law on constructing highway E-761, more precisely, road section Pojate-Preljina, 110 kilometers long.

Pro-Russian Serbian nationalists have mourned the killing on August 31 of the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in Ukraine, Alexander Zakharchenko.

Serbia's opposition Centrist Movement has proposed changes to the law on petitions, aiming to address a loophole that enables parliament to ignore citizens' initiatives, such as one from the Tijana Juric Foundation, which seeks harsher penalties for killers of children.

A Belgrade-based NGO staged a protest in defence of an MP who called for the removal of Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj from Serbia's parliament because of his recent war crimes conviction.