Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić urged people to maintain peace amid heavy clashes in Kosovo. Earlier, Serb protesters blocked roads and unknown gunmen exchanged fire with police over the weekend amid rising ethnic tensions in the country’s restive north.

Serbian President calls for peace in Kosovo amid protest

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has been hospitalised with "cardiovascular problems", his office said Saturday. "The President Aleksandar Vucic was accepted in the military hospital in Belgrade on November 15 late afternoon," his office said in a short statement.

Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic hospitalised

Protesters decry Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's autocratic rule

Serbians protested against President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party in downtown Belgrade on Saturday. Thousands of people chanted "Vucic thief" as they marched peacefully through the city centre in the fourth such protest in as many weeks.

Thousands protest against Serbian president