The sole film distributor in the Serb-run part of Bosnia-Herzegovina is refusing to screen a new movie written and directed by Angelina Jolie and set during the Bosnian war of the 1990s.

A young girl has been pulled alive from a house hours after it was hit by an avalanche that killed at least seven people in southern Kosovo.

The Bosnian parliament has voted in a new central government, formally ending a 16-month political crisis that followed the October 2010 elections.

An ongoing cold wave has caused more deaths in parts of Europe as heavy snowfalls left hundreds of people isolated and experiencing electricity and food shortages.

Police in Spain say they have arrested a man convicted in Serbia for involvement in the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

A court in Frankfurt has sentenced an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo to life in prison for killing two U.S. soldiers and wounding two others in a gun attack in March 2011.

A former senior Croatian official has pleaded not guilty to charges that he ordered the torture and killing of Serbian civilians during the 1991-95 war.

Serbia's government says it will have to revise its 2012 budget to qualify for the first installment of a 1.1-billion-euro ($1.4 billion) loan from the International Monetary Fund.

Thick ice has closed hundreds of kilometers of the Danube River in several countries and confined scores of ships to port on Europe's busiest waterway.

he assistant secretary-general for UN peacekeeping operations, Edmond Mulet, has told the UN Security Council the resumption of dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo, after a three-month break, is helping ease tensions.

Police have detained five prison guards who were on duty when two convicted murderers tried to escape from a high-security prison in Belgrade.

Authorities in Serbia say two high-profile, convicted professional killers have attempted to escape from a high-security prison in Belgrade -- but were stopped by security forces.

Bosnian authorities have used helicopters to evacuate sick people and deliver food to thousands who have been cut off by the heaviest snow the country has ever recorded.

The presidents of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia have met in the Bosnian ski resort of Jahorina to discuss ways of fighting the organized crime that plagues their region.

More than a decade has passed since the end of the Balkan wars, where international observers say ethnic Serb fighters were responsible for the bulk of atrocities in the region, particularly Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. But despite the handover of major war-crimes suspects like Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, Belgrade remains reluctant to face the sins of the past. Lawyer Natasa Kandic has built an unpopular and often dangerous career out of pushing her country to face the truth about its history.

The European Union's new special representative to Kosovo says integrating ethnic Serbs in the territory's north will be the biggest challenge as he seeks to bring Kosovo closer to the EU.

The Serbian government has purchased an ailing steel plant in the town of Smederevo from U.S. Steel for a symbolic $1, in a bid to keep the plant running and save the jobs of some 5,400 employees.

A severe cold snap across Central and Eastern Europe has left dozens of people dead.

A Serbian nationalist suspect has filed a 2-million-euro ($2.6 million) claim for compensation from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, accusing it of human rights violations.