Radovan Karadzic will challenge the decision by war crimes judges to appoint him a defense lawyer in a trial in which the former Bosnian Serb leader is representing himself, his legal adviser said today.
Serbian state security agents have raided three homes of suspected helpers of fugitive top war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, seeking leads to the former Bosnian Serb military commander, an official said today.
The legality of Kosovo's secession from Serbia is being reviewed by the International Court of Justice in hearings that started today in The Hague.
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.
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