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Tony Jones and Novak Djokovic.

Djokovic skips post-match interview over complaint about Nine and Tony Jones

Novak Djokovic explained why he refused an on-court interview with Channel Nine, saying it was because of “insulting and offensive comments” made by a prominent member of the network, host broadcaster of the Australian Open.

  • Scott Spits, Roy Ward and Cara Waters

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Serbian actor Milos Bikovic has left the set of White Lotus season 3.

White Lotus drops actor after Ukraine controversy

The casting of Milos Bikovic for the third season of the popular TV show had drawn criticism from Ukraine’s foreign ministry for his ties to Russia.

  • Christopher Kuo
A Muslim man mourns next to the coffin of his relative, a victim of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, in Potocari, Bosnia on Sunday

A generation after the Bosnian genocide, we still haven’t broken the cycle of hate

On this day – July 11 – 28 years ago, Bosnian Serb forces murdered thousands of Bosniak boys and men in Srebrenica. That slaughter should continue to inspire us to fight extremism wherever we find it.

  • Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
In this grab taken from video, a view of a car set on fire in the town of Zvecan, northern Kosovo.

French minister tells Djokovic to stay out of politics as Kosovo tensions rise

Tennis star Novak Djokovic has been chastised by a senior French politician following his intervention over the escalation of violence in the Balkans.

  • Rob Harris
Police officers block the road near the village of Mali Pozarevac, south of Belgrade, Serbia, after the shooting.

Drive-by shooting leaves several dead and injured in Serbia

Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic described the country’s second mass shooting in 48 hours as a “terrorist act”.

  • Antonio Bronic and Aleksandar Vasovic
Police block the street around the Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade, Serbia, on Wednesday.

Nine people shot dead at school in Belgrade, teenage boy arrested

A 14-year-old shot his teacher in a Belgrade classroom before opening fire on other students and security guards, officials said.

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Heavy vehicles parked by local Serbs block the road in the village of Rudare, northern Kosovo.

Kosovo’s Serbian minority clash with police as roads blocked in protest

The latest protests were triggered by the arrest of a former Serbian police officer who resigned in protest of a plan to scrap Serbian license plates used in Kosovo.

  • Fatos Bytyci
Flights leaving Moscow and St Petersburg following Putin’s announcement of a mobilisation.

‘Somebody stop Putin’: Russians rush for flights out amid reservist call-up

Anti-war groups said the limited airplane tickets out of Russia reached enormous prices due to high demand and swiftly became unavailable.

  • Dusan Stojanovic
Wreckage of a World War II German warship is seen in the Danube in Prahovo, Serbia, on August 18. The receding waters of the river have revealed a number of vessels sunk during the war.

Drought unearths Nazi warships in Serbia, Buddhist statues in China

One of the worst droughts on record has helped uncover surprising pieces of history’s jigsaw, from Spain to China.

  • Marina Lopes
Marine Le Pen confronts Emmanuel Macron in the run-off for the presidency.

Putin fan club ascendant in three European elections: why the West should worry

In France, Hungary and Serbia, political candidates have paid no price for their close ties to the Russian president since his brutal invasion of Ukraine.

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