Heavy rain in Serbia and Bosnia has caused rivers to flood, killing some and forcing thousands to flee as the water rises and landslides bury homes.
Aminatta Forna tells Maya Jaggi that Africa scares the West, but that there’s as much reason to be scared in Croatia as in Sierra Leone.
The surface waters of the Danube River, Europe’s busiest waterway, have frozen completely for the first time in over 20 years in Bulgaria.
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/ 10 February 2012
If you do not understand the politics, you do not understand the basics of the concept.
A Serbian fugitive living in SA fears he will be murdered if he returns home to face justice for slaying "Arkan", a Serbian gangster and war criminal.
The unofficial identification of the man present with Cyril Beeka when he was shot in a drive-by assassination has deepened the mystery of his murder.
Serb President Boris Tadic have urged Kosovo Serbs to refrain from violence, hours after ethnic Serbs torched a border crossing in the north.
The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a major step towards reconciliation in the Balkans, analysts have said, but the region is still a long way from healing.
Serbian police have arrested Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader wanted by the UN for war crimes committed during the Bosnian war.
Serbian officials say they have located the site where a World War II royalist guerrilla was executed as a traitor by postwar communist authorities.
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/ 26 September 2010
Serbian President Boris Tadic appeals to the majority of UN countries who have not recognised Kosovo’s independence to maintain that position.
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/ 1 September 2010
In a tit-for-tat agreement, the SA government has secured the support of Serbia in SA’s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Serbian lawmakers issued an apology to the Bosnian Muslim victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Wednesday, ending years of denial.
Serbia played their maiden international, independently, in 2006, winning 3-1 in an away game to Czech Republic.
Despite overwhelming evidence of genocide, the ‘butcher of Bosnia’ denies all. Ian Traynor reports.
The chief war crimes prosecutor in Serbia expects genocide suspect Ratko Mladic to be arrested this year due to progress in the hunt.
Unexploded cluster bombs threaten thousands of Serbian civilians almost 10 years after they were dropped during Nato’s 1999 air war over Kosovo.
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/ 18 October 2008
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari said on Friday that Serbia would have no option but to accept the new Balkan state.
Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob, a former peacekeeper, recalls a meeting with the Bosnian Serb wartime leader.
The Bevanda restaurant sits at the end of a residential street in Belgrade. It was here that a man realised that a fellow diner was Ratko Mladic.
Change in Belgrade’s political climate ended 12 years on the run for Radovan Karadzic, Europe’s most wanted man.
The old man on the 73 bus looked like a monk. His bushy white beard obscured half his face and his long white hair was tied in a top-knot.
It was not the grandiloquent send-off he might have hoped for. Instead of a triumphal state funeral, Slobodan Milosevic — the ”Butcher of the Balkans”, and the man who brought war and slaughter to former Yugoslavia — was ignominiously buried on Saturday in his back garden, next to his favourite lime tree.
Feelings are running high in the Serbian town of Pozarevac, whose most famous son, former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic, is coming home to rest in peace. As preparations step up for a funeral on Saturday under the gaze of the world, 500 people from his Socialist Party gathered in the local cultural centre and roundly accused the UN war crimes court where he died of killing him.
Serbia on Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary since the ouster of then strongman Slobodan Milosevic, with his democratic successors expressing regret over the slow pace of change since the massive popular uprising. ”There are very few in Serbia today who can be satisfied with the results recorded by Serbia since” Milosevic’s overthrow, said Serbia’s current pro-Western president, Boris Tadic.