Prague  - Serbia has withdrawn its ambassador from the Czech Republic in a move anticipated after Prague's recognition of independent Kosovo, the Czech Foreign Ministry said Friday.

Belgrade  - A Serbian fighter aircraft crashed Wednesday north of Belgrade, local media reported.

Belgrade  - Feuding Serbian bishops said Saturday that they had declared Patriarch Pavle too ill to run the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Belgrade  -  A party once led by strongman Slobodan Milosevic began coalition talks Wednesday with Serbia's caretaker prime minister after emerging as possible kingmaker in weekend elections.

Yekaterinenburg, Russia  - Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday called for Kosovo's independence to be "revised," saying Serbia had proved itself a "democratic" state in recent parl