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2 Kosovo bear cubs slaughtered for gallbladders
Kosovo authorities say two bear cubs have been slaughtered for their gallbladders and dumped in a garbage bin. Gezime Hasani, a spokeswoman for ...
UN court marks 20th anniversary of establishment
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and survivors of the bloody conflicts that ripped through the Balkans in the 1990s looked back on two decades of ...
Kosovo: Thousands protest arrest of 6 ex-rebels
Thousands of ethnic Albanians protested the arrest of six former senior rebel commanders on suspicion of war crimes committed during the 1998-99 ...
'Yugonostalgia' as Croatia prepares to join EU
Forget the European Union, many in this Croatian village are saying. The group of nations being celebrated this weekend is one that died more than 20 ...
EU in Kosovo arrests 5 war crime suspects
The European Union law mission in Kosovo says five ethnic Albanian men have been arrested for alleged war crimes against civilians during the 1998-99 ...
2 brown bears rescued from captivity in Kosovo
Two brown bears have been released into a special sanctuary after being held in a 20-square-meter cage almost their entire lives to amuse visitors at ...
Germany insists on implementation plan for Kosovo
Germany is insisting that Serbia and Kosovo agree on a plan to implement an EU-brokered deal normalizing relations between former Balkan foes.
Man sentenced in US plot against terror witness
A man was sentenced Friday to four life terms for plotting to behead federal witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for his role in an earlier ...
Kosovo: 1 month detention for suspected drug boss
The European Union law mission in Kosovo says it has ordered a suspected Balkan drug boss to be detained for one month while it gathers evidence in ...
EU in Kosovo arrests suspected Balkan drug lord
EU authorities intervened late Tuesday to arrest an ethnic Albanian suspected of running a major cocaine and heroin smuggling network from Sarajevo, ...
Kosovo police arrest suspected drugs kingpin
Kosovo police have arrested a suspected Balkan drug kingpin who is wanted on an international arrest warrant and blacklisted by U.S. authorities.
EU in Kosovo launches new organ trafficking probe
A European Union prosecutor in Kosovo says a new probe into illegal organ trafficking has begun just days after five people were found guilty of ...
Kosovo: 3 get jail time in organ trafficking case
A court in Kosovo found two citizens guilty of human trafficking and organized crime Monday in a major trial against seven people suspected of running ...
Serbian lawmakers vote to support Kosovo deal
Serbian lawmakers on Friday overwhelmingly supported an agreement normalizing relations with breakaway Kosovo, a potentially landmark deal that could ...
Kosovo police detain 2 suspected Serb spies
Kosovo police say two Serbs are being held for questioning after they were found photographing the barracks of Kosovo's lightly armed civil emergency ...
Serbian government approves deal with Kosovo
Thousands of Serb demonstrators, chanting "Treason, Treason," protested Monday against an agreement to normalize relations with breakaway Kosovo, a ...
Kosovo PM seeks parliament backing for Serbia deal
Kosovo's parliament will convene for an urgent parliamentary session to back a potentially historic deal with Serbia brokered by the European Union, ...
Serbia, Kosovo reach tentative deal on relations
Serbia and Kosovo reached a potentially historic agreement Friday to normalize relations between the Balkan neighbors, end years of acrimony and put ...
Serbia, Kosovo end EU-brokered talks without deal
The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo ended talks early Thursday without resolving their differences. But a top European Union chief said a deal could be ...
Yugoslav wars left population heavily armed
The wars from 1991 to 1999 as Yugoslavia broke up took up to 200,000 lives, turned millions into refugees and left much of the region's people ...