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THE HAGUE - The Serbian legal team began presenting its defence arguments concerning Croatia's genocide suit in the continuation of the dispute before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday, and in the next few days it will present Serbia's countersuit for the genocide committed against Serbs in Croatia in the clashes from 1991 to 1995.

ZVECAN - The steering team for the community of Serb municipalities, the head of the Kosovska Mitrovica district and the mayors of the four municipalities in northern Kosovo-Metohija have requested from international representatives in the province that Oliver Ivanovic be immediately transferred from a detention unit in Pristina to a detention unit in Kosovska Mitrovica.

NATO and Serbia strive to strengthen co-operation in Kosovo

BELGRADE – Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Sunday that Serbia has more serious and stronger legal arguments than Croatia in the current genocide case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), but pointed out that Serbia does not want to damage relations with anybody.

BELGRADE – The March 16 Kosovo elections will be held in accordance with the agreements reached in Brussels on April 16 and with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Sunday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government said at a meeting it held late on Friday that the intention of the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Kosovo to form “Kosovo armed forces” is destabilizing the situation in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) and announced bringing the this issue to the United Nations (UN).

BELGRADE, THE HAGUE – Sasa Obradovic, Serbia’s chief representative before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Croatia-Serbia genocide case, said after Croatia had given its oral argument that evidence presented by the country is rather “thin and weak.”

German President Joachim Gauck (right) leans in to embrace 90-year-old Esthir Cohen (left) during a visit to a synagogue in Ioannina on Friday. Cohen is one of just two Jews still alive in the northwestern town today who survived the Holocaust and made it back from Auschwitz.

A Serbian minister said volunteers from Serbia who have joined pro-Russian self-defence groups in the disputed Ukrainian region of Crimea should face jail terms.

A small group of five Serbian volunteers on Friday sent an open statement on arriving in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, declaring that their role was “to patrol roads and control vehicles and passengers at checkpoints”.

"Nikolić not subject of trial before ICJ"

ZAGREB -- Vesna Pusić says there was "no talk in any sense of the word" at the International Court of Justice about the current Serbian authorities' involvement in wars.