
'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 ...

Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo
For some, it was a barbaric way to treat animals. For others, it was great business. Until January, slaughterhouses across Poland — a deeply Catholic ...
Bosnia detains retired Pakistani general
Bosnian authorities say they have detained a retired Pakistani general who is accused of corruption in his home country. Mirela Znaor, the head of the ...
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.

President arrested in Bosnia corruption crackdown
Bosnian police on Friday arrested one of the country's presidents along with 18 other people as part of a corruption investigation in one of the ...

Artists turn Bosnia nuke bunker into art gallery
A once-secret bunker built to shelter Yugoslavia's communist leadership from nuclear war has temporarily reopened as an art gallery, with some ...
Mayor corruption investigation under way in Bosnia
Bosnian police have searched the office of the presidency and other government buildings as part of an investigation into corruption among top public ...

Serbia massacre puts spotlight on Balkan vet woes
Edin Kapidzic fought in Croatia's brutal war for independence and came out alive. Carrying on in peace turned out to be harder. Years after returning ...

Bosnian toothless gypsy's unlikely accolade
People in this Gypsy village say they will never forget the night they almost fell off their chairs two months ago. Did they really hear the elegant ...
Bosnian activist says UN meeting was biased
Bosnian activist Munira Subasic lost 22 close family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of thousands of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, yet she was ...
Bosnian leader warns Serbia against radicalization
Bosnia's top Muslim leader has warned Serbia it risks sparking new conflicts in the Balkans by denying facts about the region's past and encouraging ...
US, Canada, Jordan, boycott UN meeting on justice
Barred from speaking at a U.N. meeting on international criminal justice, Bosnian activist Munira Subasic, who lost 22 close family members in the ...

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 ...
Bosnian Serb president testifies for Karadzic
One Bosnian Serb leader testified in defense of another at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Tuesday, blaming Muslims' wishes for an Islamic state in ...

Bosnia: Man sentenced to 45 years for war crimes
A court in Bosnia on Friday convicted a Montenegrin man of multiple counts of murder, torture, rape and looting during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, and ...

Court: Bosnian Serbs guilty of wartime persecution
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted two senior Bosnian Serbs on Wednesday of key roles in a campaign of murder, torture and persecution against ...

Bosnia beats Greece 3-1 in World Cup qualifying
Edin Dzeko scored twice as Bosnia beat Greece 3-1 on Friday to move three points clear at the top of its World Cup qualifying group. Bosnia tops Group ...

Regional league mulled in the Balkans
They turned football stadiums into battlegrounds and then fought real wars. Now, nearly 20 years after the wars ended, the Balkan states are mulling ...