STRASBOURG, France, May 11 (UPI) -- Serbia's foreign minister Friday took over the chairmanship of the Council of Europe with a pledge his country will arrest Bosnian Serb war crime fugitives.

BERLIN, May 9 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Serbia's outgoing prime minister to try to form a pro-European coalition government within a constitutional deadline.

BELGRADE, Serbia, May 8 (UPI) -- Serbia's parliament Tuesday elected Tomislav Nikolic, a 55-year-old ultranationalist, as its speaker after 15 hours of heated debate.

BELGRADE, Serbia, July 28 (UPI) -- A nationalist leader says Serbia will go to war to take the predominantly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo should the province declare independence.

BELGRADE, Serbia, July 12 (UPI) -- Serbia's new president Boris Tadic has called on the nations of the region to apologize to each other for past bloodshed, local newspapers reported Monday.

WASHINGTON, June 28 (UPI) -- The United States said Monday it expects the new government in Serbia to facilitate the transfer of all people wanted for war crimes.

BELGRADE, Serbia, June 28 (UPI) -- The world breathed a sigh of relief Monday at the news that Serb reformist Boris Tadic had won the weekend's presidential election.

BELGRADE, Serbia, June 27 (UPI) -- Boris Tadic, a pro-Western reformer with the Democratic Party, won the Serbian presidential election Sunday, CNN reported.

BELGRADE, Serbia, June 25 (UPI) -- The people of Serbia vote in presidential elections this weekend to choose between a hard-line nationalist and a pro-Western reformist.