Croatia has indicted a former senior interior ministry official, charging him with war crimes against Serb civilians at the beginning of the country's independence war in the early 1990s.
Belgrade-born author Tea Obreht has been awarded Britain's prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, "The Tiger's Wife," an examination of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. The 25-year-old Obreht, who lives in the United States, is the youngest author to win the prize.
A statue of late Azerbaijani President Heydar Aliyev has been unveiled in a Belgrade park whose renovation was aided by 2 million euros ($2.9 million) from the Azerbaijani government.
Following Ratko Mladic's arrest on May 26 in a small town near Belgrade, Serbian officials paid about 50,000 euros ($70,000) to the war crimes indictee's family in pension arrears that had accrued since late 2005.
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Mladic faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia.
War crimes suspect Ratko Mladic's lawyer has claimed the former Bosnian Serb general was secretly treated for cancer in a Belgrade hospital two years ago.
Ivan Vejvoda of the German Marshall Fund weighs in on the recent arrest of Radko Mladic, an event that has been welcomed as a positive move for the Balkans and a critical step toward Serbia's European Union integration.
The UN war crimes tribunal says Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic will make his first appearance in court on June 3. At the hearing in two days, he will be asked to enter pleas to the charges against him, which include genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia.
Wartime Bosnian Serb general and indicted war criminal Ratko Mladic was at the center of the storm on May 31, when he was extradited to face an international war crimes tribunal in The Hague over alleged atrocities committed during the 1992-95 war.
On May 31, a Serbian police convoy escorted former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic from a Belgrade court to the airport for extradition to face war crimes charges in The Hague.
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