Serbia's cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has improved but Belgrade must keep up efforts to arrest the remaining fugitives, the court said in a report obtained by Reuters today.
The European Union will allow visa-free travel inside the 27-country bloc for Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro from December 19, but keep restrictions on Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina, EU ministers have agreed.
Josko Broz, a grandson of late Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, has been elected as president of a newly formed Communist Party of Serbia, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
The war crimes trial of Serbian nationalist Vojislav Seselj will resume in January, nearly a year after it was suspended due to concerns about the reliability of some witnesses, the tribunal ruled today.
The permanent members of the UN Security Council and the European Union have urged the competing sides in Bosnia and Herzegovina to work toward common solutions so the country can get on the fast track to join Euro-Atlantic structures. Speaking at the UN, Valentin Inzko, the high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, described the current situation as "worrisome and stagnant."
Throngs from Serbia and neighboring countries paid final tribute today to Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle, who presided over the revival of the faith after decades of communist rule.
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo has claimed to have won more votes than any other party in Kosovo's first local elections since it declared independence from Serbia last year.
Vote counting has begun in Kosovo's first elections since the territory declared independence from Serbia nearly two years ago. But officials were already grappling with apparent irregularities in the landmark voting.
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle, has died after a lengthy battle with age-related illness. The 95-year-old patriarch's death ends nearly two decades of leadership that spanned one of the most painful chapters in modern Serbian history.
Voters in Kosovo are at the polls for the first elections since the region declared independence from Serbia in February 2008. The municipal elections are seen as a critical opportunity to engage Kosovo's minority Serbs in the political process, despite objections from Belgrade.
The Yugoslavia tribunal upheld its verdict against a former Bosnian Serb general for war crimes committed while he commanded the army during the 43-month siege of Sarajevo that killed 10,000 people.
As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through the Balkans and the former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to seemingly political.
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