The European Union has praised Ukraine for its reform progress toward joining the bloc despite concerns about corruption.

Mexico, Chile and Uruguay have halted poultry imports from Brazil after the country confirmed its first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm.

Pregnant players on the women’s tennis tour now can receive 12 months of paid maternity leave, and those who become parents via partner pregnancy, surrogacy or adoption can get two months off with pay.

Several thousand people have participated in street protests in Montenegro.

A top-level meeting in Montenegro promised ways to curb illegal weapons after a gunman fatally shot 12 people in a second such tragedy in less than three years in the small Balkan country.

Shock and dismay prevails in Montenegro after a gunman fatally shot 12 people, including two children, in a western town before killing himself.

Montenegro has extradited a South Korean mogul known as “the cryptocurrency king” to the United States.

A Montenegrin appeals court has upheld a ruling by a lower court to hand over a South Korean mogul known as “the cryptocurrency king” to his native country.

A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin.

A senior U.S. official has visited Montenegro to offer support to the small Balkan nation seeking to join the European Union.

For the first time in 25 years, Italy is going to the quarterfinals of the Basketball World Cup.

Luka Doncic and Slovenia are headed to the World Cup quarterfinals.

The U.S. got its first real test of the Basketball World Cup and found a way to remain unbeaten.

The Basketball World Cup started Friday and Canada sent a message.

Bolivia is using the yuan to pay for imports and exports, becoming the latest country in South America to regularly use the Chinese currency in a small but growing challenge to the hegemony of the U.S. dollar.

Independent vote monitors say a recently formed centrist group that advocates Montenegro’s joining the European Union has won the small Balkan country’s early parliamentary election, but without enough voters’ support to form a government on its own.

Official results have confirmed a crushing defeat for Montenegro’s long-time leader Milo Djukanovic in a weekend presidential election.

Montenegro says both South Korea and the United States have formally requested extradition of Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon, who is wanted in connection with a $40 billion crash of the firm’s cryptocurrency that devastated retail investors around the world.

Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during wet weather.

Serbian state television says that a man's body has been pulled out of a swollen river in a southwestern town and rescuers are searching for another man as floods in the Balkans close down schools, cut railway traffic and soak homes and farmland.

Several hundred people have joined an LGBTQ pride march in Montenegro that was held amid strong opposition from the influential Serbian Orthodox Church in the small conservative Balkan country.

At the government headquarters in NATO-member Montenegro, the computers are unplugged, the internet is switched off and the state’s main websites are down.

When Serena Williams won the 1999 U.S. Open for her first Grand Slam title at age 17, she wore white beads in her hair.

Serena Williams has won her match in the first round of the U.S. Open.

The first woman Serena Williams will face in what is expected to be the last tournament of her stellar career says she is honored to play someone she remembers watching on TV as a child.

A pair of U.S. Air Force B52 strategic bombers have flown over the Croatian resort of Dubrovnik and three other NATO-member European states in a sign of support amid the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Montenegro has declared three days of national mourning after 10 people, including two children, were killed in an attack by a 34-year-old gunman in the western city of Cetinje.

Turkish media reports says a yacht belonging to Chelsea soccer club owner and sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has docked in Turkey's Aegean Sea resort of Bodrum.

Serbia’s state prosecutors have rejected suggestions that Novak Djokovic used a fake positive test for COVID-19 to try to enter Australia and compete in the Australian Open.

Novak Djokovic was honored at a small Adriatic Sea resort in Montenegro even as doubts re-emerged about the positive COVID-19 test he used to try to compete in the Australian Open.

Protesters clashed with hundreds of riot police in the old capital of Montenegro ahead of the inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the small Balkan nation.

Several thousand people have demonstrated in Montenegro over the planned inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the small Balkan state.

At first, neighbors in the Pheasant Ridge subdivision said they thought the two-story vacant house in the 5300 block of Stormy Skies was being remodeled, until Luis Montenegro, who lives next door, saw a man on the roof with a chainsaw.

Red Cross distribute food to local residents after an earthquake in Damasi village, central Greece, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 6.0 struck central Greece Wednesday and was also felt in neighboring Albania and North Macedonia, and as far as Kosovo and Montenegro. (AP Photo/Vaggelis Kousioras)ATHENS – Fearful of returning to their homes, thousands of people in central Greece were spending the night outdoors late Wednesday after a powerful earthquake, felt across the region, damaged homes and public buildings. The shallow, magnitude-6.0 quake struck near the central city of Larissa. Ad___ Elena Becatoros and Theodora Tongas in Athens, Llazar Semini in Tirana, Albania, and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey contributed.

(AP Photo/Dragan Karadarevic)VISEGRAD – VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Huge islands of waste are floating on some rivers in the Balkans, causing an environmental emergency and threatening a regional hydropower plant. The Balkan nations have poor waste management and tons of garbage routinely end up in rivers. Officials say that between 6,000 and 8,000 cubic meters of waste are pulled out of the Drina each year near Visegrad. Although the problem is not new, Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro have done little to fix it even as they seek to join the European Union. Running along the border between Bosnia and Serbia, the Drina also is highly popular among rafters in the region.

Several thousand people rallied Monday in Montenegro, accusing the new government of being pro-Serb because of its plans to amend a religious property law that is strongly opposed by the Serbian Orthodox Church. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)PODGORICA – Montenegro's new, pro-Serb authorities have amended a law on religious rights and property that was passed by a previous government but was strongly opposed by the Serbian Orthodox Church, which led months of protests against the bill. The changes abolished the sections on ownership that the Serbian church insisted were designed to strip it of its property in Montenegro despite repeated denials by the previous government. Some 30% of Montenegrins identify themselves as Serbs, and the Serbian Orthodox Church enjoys the biggest following of any organized religion. Montenegro's new Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic said on Twitter that the religious law changes “set right the injustice” toward the Serbian Orthodox Church.

In this photo taken on April 10, 2014, Montenegro Airlines stewardesses walk to a plane on the tarmac at Golubovci airport, near Podgorica, Montenegro. Montenegro Airlines ceased its operations on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020 after the small country's new government refused to continue financing the national carrier. The airline which was formed 25 years ago has apologized to its passengers for the sudden termination of all flights and thanked them for "the years of trust, travel and friendship." (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)PODGORICA – Montenegro Airlines ceased its operations on Saturday after the small country’s new government refused to continue financing the indebted national carrier. But the government added that it plans to form a “completely new” airline in the months to come.

President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday that his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is doing “very well" in quarantine after being infected with the virus. In Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden said all Americans should be able to attend religious services during the pandemic — as long as they do so safely. Biden was asked whether all Americans should be able to attend religious services during the pandemic and responded: “Yes, safely.”He did not answer a follow up question about whether indoor services should be allowed. Health officials are begging people not to travel for Thanksgiving and asking families to resist inviting anyone over to the house who does not already live there. The Iranian Health Ministry said on Saturday that the death toll from the virus has surged past 44,000.

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus complains about the weather conditions and ask the umpire to suspend the first round match of the French Open tennis tournament against Montenegro's Danka Kovinic at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)PARIS – The Latest on the opening day at the French Open:___Postponed and its crowds nearly all driven away, the French Open is finally underway, defying both the coronavirus and autumn rain with play for the first time under the new roof at the revamped Philippe Chatrier showpiece court. A crowd, if it could be called that, of around 150 spectators was on hand to see David Goffin, seeded 11th, and Jannik Sinner from Italy hit the first balls in main draw play Sunday under the Chatrier roof that means the French Open joins the other majors as being able to guarantee play in inclement weather. It will need it: the forecast is grim for the coming days of its covid-enforced autumn slot, pushed back from May and June. ___More AP sports: https://apnews.com/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports

(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)MANCHESTER A Premier League shutdown that began with the British government trying to shame stars over their wealth ended with admiration for a player's determination to ensure children won't starve. Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford received an unprecedented outpouring of congratulatory messages ahead of Wednesday's resumption of the world's most followed soccer league. It was at the same podium three months ago, early in the coronavirus pandemic, that the government tried to shame stars of the worlds richest league. I think well look back on the last three months with some pride at the way football as an industry has responded to some of the challenge, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said. And alongside fellow players, Sterling launched a #TimeForChange campaign video that ended with him saying: I will never tire of being black.The league is more reticent to say how it can create a more inclusive environment.