The West was poised for bad news from the parliamentary vote but will instead be celebrating President Tadic's victory
Serbians have hailed the surprise success of President Boris Tadic's pro-Western party in parliamentary elections as a key step forward along the country's path towards membership of the European Union.
Ljuban Panic, a 23-year-old business studies student from Novi Sad, Serbia's second city, has walked 80 kilometers through the Fruska Gora mountains to attend the Democratic Party's final rally in Belgrade ahead of Sunday's crucial parliamentary elections.
The government's collapse has brought on an election that will force voters to choose whether to confront or join the West
Serbian prosecutors said Saturday they were hunting rioters who targeted the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade leaving one person dead while a senior Serbian minister reportedly blamed Washington for the violence triggered by Kosovo's breakaway.
Kosovo's breakaway from Serbia provoked fresh unrest Friday as U.N. police were attacked by ethnic Serb demonstrators in northern Kosovo a day after angry demonstrations in the Serbian capital Belgrade left one person dead.
The U.S. Embassy in Belgrade is evacuating all nonessential personnel following Thursday's attack on the building by a crowd of protesters, a spokesman for the embassy told CNN Friday.
Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns urges all involved to help create peace on the streets of Kosovo.
Angry demonstrators protesting Kosovo's independence from Serbia attacked the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, throwing rocks, breaking windows and setting fires.
In Belgrade, protesters turn violent amid a demonstration against Kosovo's independence.
CNN's Alessio Vinci in Kosovo and Matthew Chance in Moscow report on reaction to Kosovo's independence.
Fireworks lit the skies and crowds filled the streets of Kosovo's capital Sunday after the territory's parliament declared independence from Serbia, a move backed by many Western governments, but which Serbia and Russia bitterly oppose.
U.N. Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon speaks about Kosovo's decleration of independence.
Celebration over independence in the Kosovar capital of Pristina is matched by anger and gloom in Belgrade
The results of Serbia's run-off election are not in yet, but it's expected to be close. CNN's Robin Oakley reports
In the country's presidential election, Serbs are trying to choose between national pride and economic promise
U.N. Security Council is unable to break an impasse over Kosovo's future. CNN's Richard Roth reports.
War crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte is confident that Ratko Mladic will soon be handed over for trial. That's because Serbia's government wants to get on with joining the E.U.
U.S. President George W. Bush was returning home Monday after an eight-day European tour dominated by concerns over American plans for a Europe-based missile defense system and the future status of the Serbian province of Kosovo.
The European Union says it has broken off talks on closer ties with Serbia after it failed to meet its deadline to hand over the fugitive war crimes suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic.
A graphic video showing the killings of six Muslim men by a Serbian paramilitary unit during the notorious July 1995 Srebrenica massacre led to the arrests of at least eight people suspected of participating.
NATO will send peacekeeping reinforcements to the Balkans in hopes of quelling a mass wave of violence that has killed at least 22 people and left 500 wounded.
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