BECEJ

Bishops of Serbia's powerful Orthodox Church on Thursday elected Porfirije Peric as their 46th patriarch.

The new Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovac and Patriarch of Serbia had previously, since 2014, been Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana.

"The threats to Zana Cimili, as to other N1 journalists, are not only threats to the individual reporters but also to freedom of speech and of the media as fundamental democratic rights," said the channel, which has reporters in countries across the former Yugoslavia.

A retired police officer from the town of Becej used a hand grenade to commit suicide in his family home on Tuesday night, B92 has learned unofficially..

The body was discovered by his daughter, who is also a police officer, working at the Novi Sad Police Directorate.

BECEJ - We will do our best to maintain peace but we do not expect anything from Pristina, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday, noting the situation was complex and that he would address it with Kosovo Serb representatives in Raska, central Serbia, later in the afternoon.