Croatian premier tries to mollify miffed ItaliansCROATIA: Croatia sought to mollify Italy yesterday after it denounced a proposal by the country's prime minister to return property…Fri Dec 02 2005 - 00:00
US denies running secret prison in Kosovo as covert CIA flights investigatedUS: The United States has denied running a covert detention facility in Kosovo, amid concerns that the CIA is holding terror…Mon Nov 28 2005 - 00:00
Bosnia remains a deeply divided stateBOSNIA : Bosnia's leaders have marked a decade of peace by pledging to overhaul their ethnically divided state, but the road…Fri Nov 25 2005 - 00:00
Status of Kosovo puts focus on restive BalkansBOSNIA: As Bosnia prepares to celebrate a decade of peace, much of former Yugoslavia anxiously awaits the start of final talks…Sat Nov 19 2005 - 00:00
Libya offers deal to release nursesLIBYA: Libya has proposed swapping five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death for infecting hundreds of children with HIV for …Thu Nov 17 2005 - 00:00
Ex-Bosnian Muslim chief-of-staff not guilty of war crimesUN TRIBUNAL: The highest-ranking Bosnian Muslim commander to be tried by the UN tribunal at The Hague was acquitted of war crimes…Thu Nov 17 2005 - 00:00
Poland may host part of US missile systemPOLAND: Poland may host part of the United States' controversial missile defence system, its new prime minister said yesterday…Tue Nov 15 2005 - 00:00
Mladic surrender talks reportedSERBIA & MONTENEGRO: Senior Serb officials are negotiating the surrender of Gen Ratko Mladic, Bosnian media reported yesterday…Mon Nov 14 2005 - 00:00
PiS wins vote of confidence with reform pledgePOLAND: Poland's conservative minority government won a vital vote of confidence in parliament last night, after making concessions…Fri Nov 11 2005 - 00:00
Media fears censorship in BulgariaBulgaria: Bulgarian media groups warned yesterday that the state could use stringent new restrictions on television broadcasts…Thu Nov 10 2005 - 00:00
Tribunal studies case to beatify John PaulVATICAN: A council of senior Catholic clergy began examining the case for the beatification of Pope John Paul II yesterday in…Sat Nov 05 2005 - 00:00
Law and Justice rules out Polish coalitionPOLAND: Poland's election winners ruled out the possibility of a coalition with their chief rivals yesterday, amid fears that…Fri Nov 04 2005 - 00:00
Premier tries to win support for new governmentPOLAND: Poland's new prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz yesterday attempted to reinforce his minority government by seeking…Thu Nov 03 2005 - 00:00
Poland's PM dogged by party's populist imagePOLAND: It is a tough first week in office for Poland's new prime minister, facing the demands of allies and adversaries and…Wed Nov 02 2005 - 00:00
Croatia, Romania confirm more avian flu casesCROATIA: Croatia and Romania confirmed more cases of avian flu yesterday while Candian government officials said several wild…Tue Nov 01 2005 - 00:00
Parties in Poland at odds over coalitionPOLAND: Poland was stumbling towards a potentially unstable coalition government last night as the country's two strongest parties…Mon Oct 31 2005 - 00:00
War crime suspect urged to surrenderSERBIA & MONTENEGRO: Zoran Stankovic, the new defence minister of Serbia-Montenegro and a reputed friend of Ratko Mladic…Sat Oct 29 2005 - 01:00
Latest killing a setback for Bulgarian EU hopesBULGARIA: One of Bulgaria's richest men was shot dead yesterday in the middle of its capital, Sofia, hours after Brussels warned…Thu Oct 27 2005 - 01:00
Serbia, Kosovo due for key talksSERBIA: The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo have outlined diametrically opposed plans for the future of the mostly Albanian…Tue Oct 25 2005 - 01:00
Romania accelerates cull of poultryROMANIA: Romania is accelerating a cull of domestic poultry and tightening quarantine restrictions in the Danube delta after…Mon Oct 17 2005 - 01:00
EU is urged to expand furtherBALKANS: Heads of state from across central Europe and the Balkans urged the European Union yesterday to continue expanding …Sat Oct 15 2005 - 01:00
Right-wing battle to lead PolandPOLAND: Poland's outgoing president, Alexander Kwasniewski, flew to Washington yesterday for a farewell visit, as his socialist…Wed Oct 12 2005 - 01:00
Romania, Turkey in culls to stop bird fluROMANIA/TURKEY: Romania and Turkey are culling thousands of birds to quell an outbreak of bird flu that could be the deadly …Mon Oct 10 2005 - 01:00
Annan wants early start to talks on KosovoUN: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said yesterday that he wanted talks on the future of Kosovo to start soon, pitting ethnic…Sat Oct 08 2005 - 01:00
List names Serbs suspected of role in Srebrenica massacreSERBIA & MONTENEGRO: The Bosnian government has identified almost 20,000 ethnic Serbs allegedly involved in the massacre…Thu Oct 06 2005 - 01:00
Croatia thanks Austria for promoting its causeCROATIA: Croatia celebrated the start of EU entry talks yesterday and thanked Austria for fighting its corner during a bout …Wed Oct 05 2005 - 01:00
Leading politician's views on gays anger Polish liberalsPOLAND: A week after Poland's conservatives dominated a general election, their bitter fight to win the presidency on Sunday…Tue Oct 04 2005 - 01:00
Setback to Croatia's EU talksCROATIA: Chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte dented Croatia's hopes of starting EU accession talks yesterday when…Sat Oct 01 2005 - 01:00
Bulgarian PM asks for equal treatment by EUBULGARIA: Bulgaria's new prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, demanded yesterday that the European Union ignores growing fears …Tue Sept 27 2005 - 01:00
Belarus 'hooligan' bomb injures 40BELARUS: At least 40 people have been hurt in the second bomb attack this month in Belarus, where President Alexander Lukashenko…Sat Sept 24 2005 - 01:00
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
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
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
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
