Press freedom worldwide has dropped to its lowest point in more than 10 years, with only one in six people now living in a country that has a free and independent media, according to the democracy watchdog group Freedom House.
Croatia has long had difficulty accepting the wartime atrocities committed by its forces during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. But the recent reaction of the Croatian public to sentences handed down to two retired Croatian generals was out of all proportion.
SVETI STEFAN, Montenegro -- Controversial reconstruction work on a medieval church in an exclusive Montenegrin coastal resort is to be suspended until after Easter.
Serbia says it is ready to talk about the division of Kosovo, whose independence it has vowed never to recognize.
Serbian Opposition Leader Takes Water
Serbia's nationalist opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic is in the fifth day of a hunger strike to demand early elections.
Kosovo's government has announced an extension in several municipalities of a nationwide census that had been due to end on April 15.
The leader of the conservative Serbian Progressive Party, Tomislav Nikolic, warned on the eve of the weekend rally that "when we finish, [President Boris] Tadic will have no options but to call an early vote."
Former Croatian Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac have been given lengthy prison terms for their roles in the killing of more than 300 Serbs during the 1991-95 Balkan conflict.
Police said Bozidar Vucurevic, accused of ordering the shelling of its ancient city of Dubrovnik in 1991, was detained on a Croatian arrest warrant at a border crossing between Bosnia and Serbia on April 4.
Local media report that superstar Serbian turbofolk singer Ceca, the widow of Serbian warlord and paramilitary "Tigers" commander Arkan -- has been indicted on charges of embezzlement and illegal arms possession.
Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci sees echoes of his country's own history in the unfolding events in Libya.
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