16 hours ago · BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — They packed up food, water and extra clothes and set off. Hundreds of Serbian university students on Thursday started an 80-kilometer (50-mile) march toward the northern city of Novi Sad, the latest endeavor in their widening protest movement over a deadly overhang collapse in November that killed 15 people.

3 days ago · Serbia: Tens of thousands join student-led protests The student-led protest movement was boosted by farmers, actors and educators, in the most recent show of public anger over the collapse of a ...

2 days ago · November's deaths in Novi Sad prompted a huge and sustained wave of protests across Serbia. Vucevic, who is the leader of the governing Serbian Progressive Party, was in office for less than a year.

2 days ago · Serbia last week deported five activists from neighboring Croatia, whom it accused of helping Serbian groups involved in the protests. Serbia applied to join the European Union in 2009, but its ...

2 days ago · BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbia’s populist Prime Minister Milos Vucevic resigned Tuesday in an attempt to calm political tensions and pressure roiled by weeks of massive anti-corruption protests over ...

The estimated attendance was between 100,000 and 102,000 people, which marks the biggest protest in Belgrade and Serbia by attendance in recorded history. [37] On 24 December, in an interview, Vučić stated that "if [he] wished so, [he] could send out the Cobras special forces on the students and they would throw them around in 6–7 seconds".

Dec 22, 2024 · BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Tens of thousands of people streamed into a central square in Serbia’s capital on Sunday for a rally against populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government, whose tight grip on power has been challenged by weeks of street protests led by university students.

Dec 22, 2024 · Tens of thousands of Serbians have gathered in the capital Belgrade to protest against President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), which they blame for a...

Dec 25, 2023 · Police in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, have used tear gas to disperse crowds protesting over alleged fraud in last week's general election. They intervened after some of the crowd outside the city...

Dec 25, 2023 · Protesters attempted to gain access to the City Assembly in Belgrade, using flagpoles and rocks to break the windows of the building, but were repelled by police using riot shields and tear...