Slovenians to vote on media controlSLOVENIA: Slovenia is gearing up for Sunday's referendum on a controversial new media law, which critics say would place the…Fri Sept 23 2005 - 01:00
Church-backed party takes leadPoland: Claiming the support of Solidarity and the Catholic Church and wielding the campaign weapons of Germany's Gerhard Schröder…Thu Sept 22 2005 - 01:00
Bosnian Serb bank is missing millionsBosnia: Vast sums of money have disappeared from a Bosnian Serb bank suspected of helping war crimes suspects evade capture, …Wed Sept 21 2005 - 01:00
Solidarity offshoots set for carve-up as Socialists pay the pricePolish election: Right-wing offshoots from Poland's Solidarity movement are set to rout the ruling Socialists in a general election…Tue Sept 20 2005 - 01:00
Pope inspired strikes - WalesaPOLAND: Former Polish president Lech Walesa hailed Pope John Paul II yesterday as the inspiration behind the Solidarity trade…Tue Aug 30 2005 - 01:00
Karadzic pressed to surrenderSERBIA: A powerful Serb Orthodox cleric close to the family of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has urged him to surrender…Mon Aug 29 2005 - 01:00
John Paul aide installed as prelatePOLAND: Before Vatican officials, top Polish politicians and a congregation of 80,000 people, the long-time personal secretary…Mon Aug 29 2005 - 01:00
Lights, camera, silence as movie people hit townJust when nothing seemed capable of emptying them for long - neither sweltering heat nor summer storms - along came Hollywood…Fri Aug 19 2005 - 01:00
Protests after Serb guard is shot deadBOSNIA: A Bosnian Muslim border guard has shot dead a Serb colleague as they patrolled the country's frontier, generating angry…Fri Aug 19 2005 - 01:00
Kiev move angers Russian OrthodoxUKRAINE: As Ukraine's Catholics prepare to open their headquarters in the national capital, Kiev, the Russian Orthodox Church…Thu Aug 18 2005 - 01:00
Solidarity and Walesa slide into obscurityPOLAND: "Like trying to saddle a cow" was how Josef Stalin described the task of imposing communism on Poland and, 25 years …Wed Aug 17 2005 - 01:00
Polish leader in appeal to Putin as muggings further sour relationsPOLAND: Poland's president Alexander Kwasniewski has appealed to his Russian counterpart to take action over the beating of …Sat Aug 13 2005 - 01:00
Bulgaria to hold talks on coalition or face snap pollBULGARIA: Bulgaria's former king, Simeon Saxe-Coburg, has scrapped efforts to form a new cabinet, leaving the Balkan nation …Fri Aug 12 2005 - 01:00
Argentina set to send Bosnian to Hague courtARGENTINA: Argentina was preparing to extradite one of Bosnia's most notorious war criminals to the UN court at The Hague yesterday…Wed Aug 10 2005 - 01:00
Bulgaria's ex-king rebuffed as coalition offer rejectedBULGARIA: Bulgaria appears to be stumbling closer to snap elections and the possible postponement of EU entry in 2007, after…Mon Aug 08 2005 - 01:00
Croatia marks crushed uprisingCROATIA: With banners, songs and rousing speeches, Croatia celebrated a decade since it crushed a rebel Serb uprising yesterday…Sat Aug 06 2005 - 01:00
Romanian passports are seizedROMANIA: Romanian border police have confiscated the passports of thousands of their countrymen suspected of living and working…Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
Croatia honours day Serbs recall with bitternessCROATIA: A decade after 200,000 Serbs fled their homes to escape advancing Croatian troops, Belgrade is furious at grand plans…Fri Aug 05 2005 - 01:00
'Progress' closing in on watery haunt of ibis and old believersLetter from the Danube delta: The history of this road is as serpentine as its route, through the rolling cornfields and flower…Tue Jul 26 2005 - 01:00
Series of blasts in Kosovo mar Albright visitSERBIA & MONTENEGRO: Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrived in Kosovo last night for talks with its top…Tue Jul 05 2005 - 01:00
Irish consortium sees Hungarian airport upgrade payAn Irish consortium running Hungary's second biggest international airport has secured a return on its €8Mon Jul 04 2005 - 01:00
Policemen arrested over 1995 Srebrenica massacreBOSNIA: Eleven current and former Bosnian-Serb policemen have been arrested for alleged involvement in the massacre of Muslims…Sat Jun 25 2005 - 01:00
Kosovan Serbs block reopening of bridge by UN forcesSERBIA & MONTENEGRO: Serbs fearing attack from their ethnic-Albanian neighbours blocked a key bridge in Kosovo yesterday…Tue Jun 14 2005 - 01:00
Schroder bolsters Balkan states' EU dreamsEU: The bids of Romania and Bulgaria to join the European Union in 2007 won the backing of German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder…Sat Jun 04 2005 - 01:00
Atrocity video 'may lead to Mladic arrest'SERBIA: Serbian officials said yesterday that the broadcast of a shocking 1995 video showing the murder of Bosnian Muslims by…Sat Jun 04 2005 - 01:00
John Paul's right-hand man made Archbishop of KrakowVATICAN: The long-time personal secretary of Pope John Paul was named yesterday as the new Archbishop of Krakow, the position…Sat Jun 04 2005 - 01:00
Libya puts decision on medics on holdLIBYA: Libya's Supreme Court postponed a decision yesterday on whether to free five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor…Wed Jun 01 2005 - 01:00
Solana warns Bosnian Serbs over multi-ethnic national police forceBosnia : Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, warned Bosnian Serb leaders yesterday that their refusal …Mon May 23 2005 - 01:00
US pushing both sides for Kosovo agreementKOSOVO: Washington is cranking up the pressure on Belgrade and Kosovo to reach agreement on the future of the troubled region…Sat May 21 2005 - 01:00
Europe marks the late pope's birthdayEU: With church services, commemorative stamps and even the renaming of an Italian peak, Pope John Paul II was remembered across…Thu May 19 2005 - 01:00
Latvians and Russian neighbours manage to coexistRiga Letter: The three Latvian students wandered where they could around their capital, Riga, whose pristine old heart was clamped…Wed May 11 2005 - 01:00
Accession states defy pessimistsFormer communist countries that joined the EU last May are booming, with farm incomes up 50 per cent and inward investment racing…Mon May 02 2005 - 01:00
Putin warns opponents against protestsRUSSIA: Russian president Vladimir Putin insisted yesterday that he was committed to fostering democracy in the world's largest…Tue Apr 26 2005 - 01:00
Rice urges Belarussians to oppose 'last dictatorship'RICE VISIT: US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has used the first major Nato meeting on former Soviet territory to urge…Fri Apr 22 2005 - 01:00
'How can you not attend the funeral of one's father?'Leaving Poland: The lucky ones gripped their tickets a little more tightly and hurried past the growing scrum.Wed Apr 06 2005 - 01:00
Pressure to Kyrgyz leader returnKyrgyzstan: Kyrgyzstan's ousted president Askar Akayev said yesterday he was willing to return to his homeland to formally resign…Fri Apr 01 2005 - 01:00
Yukos security chief gets 20 years in jail for double murderRussia: A Russian court sentenced the one-time security chief of the Yukos oil company to 20 years in jail for murder yesterday…Thu Mar 31 2005 - 01:00
Ashdown sacks Bosnian-Croat presidentBOSNIA: Lord Ashdown, the international community's administrator for Bosnia, sacked the Croatian member of the country's tripartite…Wed Mar 30 2005 - 01:00
Ousted Kyrgyzstan president hints he could resignKYRGYZSTAN: Askar Akayev, who led Kyrgyzstan for 15 years before being ousted in last week's unexpected coup, insisted yesterday…Wed Mar 30 2005 - 01:00
Deputies side with Bakiyev as interim leader of KyrgyzstanKYRGYZSTAN: The leaders of last week's coup in Kyrgyzstan glossed over their differences yesterday, resolving a row between …Tue Mar 29 2005 - 01:00
UN urges Serbs to enter talks on Kosovo's futureSERBIA & MONTENEGRO: The United Nations' administrator for Kosovo urged Serbia's leaders yesterday to prepare for talks …Tue Mar 29 2005 - 01:00
Rival parliaments bicker amid crisis in KyrgyzstanKYRGYZSTAN: Rival parliaments bickered yesterday over who should run Kyrgyzstan after its unexpected coup, while Western envoys…Mon Mar 28 2005 - 01:00
Kyrgyz interim president to act on lootingKYRGYZSTAN: Kyrgyzstan's new acting president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, appointed an interim cabinet and vowed to crack down on rampant…Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
Romania puts claim by ex-king on holdROMANIA: Romania's plan to compensate its former king for property appropriated by the communists has been put on ice after …Sat Mar 26 2005 - 00:00
Kyrgyz president flees country after protestsKYRGYZSTAN: President Askar Akayev has fled Kyrgyzstan after thousands of protesters, complaining about rigged elections, poverty…Fri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
Putin offers surprise truce to tycoonsRUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin has offered an unexpected truce to Russia's nervous tycoons by pledging not to investigate …Fri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
Tough warning goes out to Kyrgyz protestersKYRGYZSTAN: Kyrgyzstan's new hard-line interior minister warned anti-government protesters in the south of the Central Asian…Thu Mar 24 2005 - 00:00
Russian anger as Warsaw junction is named after Chechen rebelRussia-Poland: Russia and Poland are at odds for the second time this month over Warsaw's alleged support for Chechen separatist…Wed Mar 23 2005 - 00:00
Estonian parties search for new prime ministerEstonia: Estonia's political elite began preparing yesterday for emergency talks to form a new government following the shock…Wed Mar 23 2005 - 00:00
Croats warn of possible backlash against BrusselsCROATIA: Most Croats appeared sanguine yesterday over the postponement of talks to join the European Union, despite warnings…Thu Mar 17 2005 - 00:00
