Female students are marking International Women’s Day in Serbia by leading the daily street protests against corruption, and thousands later joined a separate student-led rally against the populist go

Female students Saturday marked International Women's Day in Serbia by leading the daily street protests against corruption and sending a message decrying widespread violence against women in the Balkan country.

A new protest action called “General Strike” is taking place across Serbia on 7 March, following a call from students who have been blocking university faculties and demanding accountability for the deaths of 15 people in the collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad.

This happened while you were sleeping. Here's what global agencies recorded overnight from Friday to Saturday. Tens of thousands of people responded to the students' call for a general strike and protest marches organised on Friday in several Serbian cities.