JOVANA GEC

Associated Press
Add To Watchlist

War crimes witness alleges intimidation

A witness in a key war crimes trial against Serbian paramilitaries charged with atrocities in Kosovo said Wednesday that he and his family are facing threats and intimidation.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serbia impounds $500 million in crime property

An opulent villa once owned by a drug lord is now home to children on cancer therapy, a drug lab has been turned into a youth center, and cars used by gangsters are in the hands of the police that chased them.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serb medical team for Mladic to include 5 doctors

Five doctors from Serbia will travel to the Netherlands next week to examine former Bosnian Serb army Ratko Mladic, who was too ill to attend a pretrial hearing at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serbia faces surge in asylum seekers

They roam the streets or sit in cafes, rent space in cellars and garages, even sleep in abandoned train cars parked outside town.

Continue reading this entry ...

EU hopes Hungary will not veto Serbia

The EU's enlargement commissioner expressed the hope Hungary will not veto Serbia's candidacy for membership because it is upset over a property restitution law in the Balkan country.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serb mother claims son, nephew are human magnets

Two small boys from a central Serbian town are able to attract metal objects, acting much like human magnets, according to their mother. It's a claim that is raising doubts among some experts.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serb mother claims son, nephew are human magnets

Two small boys from a central Serbian town are able to attract metal objects, acting much like human magnets, says the mother of one of them.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serb cousins share same strange attraction

Serb cousins David and Luka are poles apart from other kids, for when it comes to metalwear everything sticks.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serbs shun reality for life in the Wild West

He lives in a country bombed by the United States only a few years ago and where anti-American sentiments still run high, but Milorad Sudar says he'd like nothing more than to be a cowboy like those in Western movies, riding off into the sunset.

Continue reading this entry ...

Turkey: Bosnia and Serbia should join NATO, EU

Turkey wants to help turn the war-ravaged Balkans into a region of cooperation with a joint future in the European Union and NATO, the Turkish president said Tuesday, as part of his country's increased involvement in the region where it has historic influence.

Continue reading this entry ...

Tens of thousands rally against pro-West Serb govt

Tens of thousands of nationalist supporters demanded the pro-Western government call early elections in Serbia at a rally Saturday, as their leader announced he was launching a hunger strike until the request is met.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serb nationalists love Gadhafi on Facebook page

Five years after their leader Slobodan Milosevic died while on trial for genocide, some Serb nationalists have found a new idol: Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

Continue reading this entry ...

Flooded with stray dogs, Serbia struggles to cope

Small and cuddly or looking like wolves, curled in filthy makeshift cages or roaming the streets in packs: Stray dogs are everywhere in Serbia, a country where even people struggle with hunger and have little sympathy for animals.

Continue reading this entry ...

Court acquits men of helping Serbian fugitive

A Serbian court on Friday acquitted 10 men charged with helping Europe's most wanted fugitive evade arrest on genocide charges before a U.N. war crimes court.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serbia prosecutors to appeal 2 war crimes verdicts

Serbia on Monday sentenced two men to 15 and six years each in prison for the wartime torture and killing of 700 Muslims in eastern Bosnia — but the prosecutor's office called the sentences too lenient and said it will appeal.

Continue reading this entry ...

Tobacco-loving Serbs face smoking ban

Forget about the economic crisis and unemployment, Serbs have another burning issue on their hands — a smoking ban.

Continue reading this entry ...

Sentence for ex-Bosnian officer overturned

An appeals court on Monday overturned a war crimes conviction and a 12-year prison sentence for a former Bosnian security officer whose case has strained postwar relations between Serbia and Bosnia.

Continue reading this entry ...

British FM Hague pressures Serbia over Kosovo

Britain's foreign secretary urged Serbia on Tuesday not to challenge Kosovo's independence at the U.N. General Assembly, and the Balkan country's president said it is open to a compromise on the resolution.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serbia to tap loan amid slower recovery

An International Monetary Fund mission agreed for crisis-stricken Serbia to make another draw from a standby loan, officials said Thursday, but warned that recovery is slower than expected.

Continue reading this entry ...

Several thousand visit Tito's grave

Several thousand people visited Josip Broz Tito's grave to celebrate his birthday Tuesday in a sign of the sentimentality many feel about the Yugoslav communist dictator 30 years after his death.

Continue reading this entry ...

Mladic's family wants him declared dead

The family of Europe's most-wanted fugitive, Bosnian Serb wartime military commander Ratko Mladic, is seeking to have him declared officially dead but authorities said Tuesday that the hunt for the genocide suspect will continue.

Continue reading this entry ...

UN prosecutor files amended Mladic indictment

U.N. prosecutors have filed an amended indictment against Europe's top fugitive Ratko Mladic, seeking to speed up the court proceedings once he is arrested, the chief U.N. prosecutor for former Yugoslavia said Thursday.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serb President: Srebrenica declaration 'historic'

Serbia's apology for the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica could help reconciliation in the war-scarred Balkans and lead to the capture of a wartime general accused of masterminding the carnage, Serbia's president said Wednesday.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serbian police detain 9 over alleged war crimes

Serbian police have detained nine former paramilitary fighters suspected of killing civilians and looting homes during the Kosovo war, a war crimes prosecutor said Saturday.

Continue reading this entry ...

Serbia police search fugitive Mladic's house

Masked policemen searched the house of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic on Tuesday in an effort to capture the war crimes fugitive as Serbia seeks EU membership.

Continue reading this entry ...