European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says the prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo have agreed in principle on the implementation of a deal normalizing their relations.

Officials say five Serbia citizens have returned home after spending 21 months in captivity in Libya.

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle hailed the April 19 agreement as “historic,” but called for “concrete steps” to implement it.

Bosko and Admira, who became known to the world as Sarajevo's Romeo and Juliet, were killed on a bridge in the Bosnian capital 20 years ago.

Former Serbian basketball star Predrag Danilovic, who played in the NBA before becoming general manager of Partizan in Belgrade, has been stabbed and seriously injured in a bar fight in the Serbian capital.

Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the U.S. House of Representative’s Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke to RFE/RL about the recent normalization agreement between Serbia and Kosovo and the prospects for reconciliation.

Two members of a Russian ultranationalist group allegedly involved in high-profile killings have been arrested in Serbia and Ukraine.

Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has urged Serbs living in northern Kosovo to accept an EU-brokered agreement on normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

More than 3,000 people protested in Belgrade on May 10 against an EU-brokered deal to normalize ties between Belgrade and Kosovo, seen by ultra-nationalists as Serbia's tacit recognition of its former province's independence.

Stefan Fuele, the European Union commissioner for enlargement and neighborhood policy, has called on the EU-hopeful countries of the Eastern Partnership and the Western Balkans to do more to prove their commitment to democratic values. Correspondent Daisy Sindelar spoke to Fuele during his visit to RFE/RL headquarters in Prague on May 9.

Reputed Balkan crime boss, Naser Kelmendi, has been arrested in Kosovo's capital, Pristina, on an international arrest warrant.

Representative Dana Rohrabacher, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is one of the United States' staunchest supporters of Kosovo's independence. In an interview with RFE/RL, he's critical of the EU-brokered agreement reached last month between Belgrade and Pristina, saying it did not create the preconditions for long-term peace and stability in the Balkans.

European Union prosecutors have launched an investigation into eight suspects in connection with an international organ trafficking ring that performed at least 23 illegal kidney transplants at a clinic in Pristina.

Police in Bosnia have raided government offices, including that of the president, in one of the country's two autonomous regions.

Serbian lawmakers are debating a crucial EU-brokered agreement to normalize relations with Serbia's former province of Kosovo.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has offered an apology for his country's role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys.

The Serbian Orthodox Church has formally removed from duty a powerful 74-year-old cleric bishop implicated in a sex scandal allegedly involving orgies and the rape of underage boys and girls.

Belgrade and Pristina’s landmark agreement to normalize their relations is facing difficult hurdles on the ground in the Serb-majority municipalities of northern Kosovo.

The European Union has recommended that membership talks should be opened with Serbia and has given the green light for Kosovo to start talks on an association agreement with the bloc.