World No1 misses out on tie with India Djokovics wife is expecting their first child Federer and Djokovic must take stock after defeats Novak Djokovic has pulled out of this weeks Davis Cup play-off against India because of fatigue and family commitments. The Serbia captain, Bogdan Obradovic, said on Monday that Djokovic, who lost to Kei Nishikori in the US Open semi-finals on Saturday , also wants...
Uncleared wartime landmines make recovery dangerous, with a majority of known mined areas affected by the disaster Mitra Colic stands in the shell of her home, anguished by the worst flooding in the Balkans in 150 years. "I have moments when I cry and think: What next? Can I go on like this?" she says. Colic, a 71-year-old retired cleaner, moved to the northern Bosnian town of Modrica during...
People from across the former Yugoslavia were helping one another, but their governments enabled the tragedy Imagine the following scenario. Catastrophic floods have hit your country. More than 100,000 houses are toppled or submerged in mud. Over a million people are affected by the disaster. At the same time, one of your country's richest businessmen decides to take his wife to London. But this was...
More than 25,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Serbia and Bosnia in the worst floods to hit the Balkans in more than a century. The Sava river, swollen by the heaviest rains since records began 120 years ago, has wreaked havoc in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia since Friday. At least 37 people have drowned or been killed by landslides mainly in Serbia and Bosnia Continue reading... ...
Catastrophe has again struck the former Yugoslavia but this time we are not killing each other but helping each other The floods came like a thief in the night, just as the Red Death did in Edgar Allan Poe's story. They hit hard, as if their aim was to establish an "illimitable dominion over all". The flooded territory in the former Yugoslavia is currently larger than the state of Israel,...
Sandbags stacked around Nikola Tesla plant 20 miles outside Belgrade as thousands of people are evacuated in Bosnia Soldiers and energy workers have stacked thousands of sandbags to protect Serbia's biggest power plant from flood waters, which are expected to keep rising after the heaviest rains in the Balkans in more than a century killed dozens of people. On Monday, Bosnian state radio reported that...
Flooding and landslides have caused havoc in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina after the region suffered its worst rainfall in more than a century Continue reading... ...
Mladic's genocide trial at The Hague hears defence claim that Bosnian Serb troops did not target civilians in 44-month siege The wartime commander of the Bosnian Serbs, Ratko Mladic, opened his defence against charges of genocide and crimes against humanity on Monday, when one of his officers claimed that his troops only fired in self-defence during their 44-month siege of Sarajevo. Mladic besuited,...
Mass evacuations are under way in the Serbian town of Obrenovac and in villages along the Sava river in water-logged eastern Croatia. Officials say more than 16,000 people have been evacuated from flood-hit regions in Serbia, many finding shelter in schools and sports halls. Tens of thousands of homes have been left without electricity or drinking water Continue reading... ...
Rescue workers fear the worst as they try to reach towns cut off by raging river Sava Thousands of people crammed into boats and army trucks have fled their homes in Serbia and Bosnia after record rainfall turned the Sava river into a deadly torrent and caused the worst floods in more than a century. Continue reading... ...
Former world No1 dedicates win in Rome to 'my people' Serbian describes floods as 'biggest we have ever seen' Novak Djokovic, Serbia's most prominent athlete, on Saturday implored the media to raise awareness of the floods that have devastated his country , accusing CNN and the BBC of virtually ignoring what he described as a "total catastrophe of biblical proportions". The former world No1...
At least 25 dead and fears that landmines will be exposed after torrential rain causes 'horrible catastrophe' Packed into buses, boats and helicopters, carrying nothing but a handful of belongings, tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in Bosnia and Serbia to escape the worst flooding in a century. Rapidly rising rivers surged into homes, sometimes reaching up to the second floors, sending...
At least 20 people dead and more bodies could be found after three months' worth of rain falls on Balkans region in three days Record flooding in the Balkans has left least 20 people dead in Serbia and Bosnia and is forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. Meteorologists say the flooding is the worst since records began 120 years ago and is due to three months' worth of rain falling on the region...
Unshackled from Bosnia's bloody history, seemingly thriving as a beacon of multi-ethnicity, is Brko a model for urban success? Brko looks like any small Bosnian city. Smoke-filled cafes line the pedestrianised main street, serving bitter coffee against the blaring backdrop of another regional speciality: high-octane turbo-folk music. But behind Brkos quotidian façade lies a novel political...
As Balkan countries prepare to mark the start of the first world war, history books show widely different interpretations "Those people were terrorists Gavrilo Princip and the rest of them," said Salih Mehmedovic, standing at the spot by the Latin Bridge in central Sarajevo where the young Bosnian Serb shot dead Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary 100 years ago. Mehmedovic, a Bosniak,...
Australia's ambassador to Croatia summoned after Liberal MP Craig Kelly's comments 'taken out of context' The Australian ambassador to Croatia has been summoned after a Coalition MP was reported as passing on the best wishes of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, to a group celebrating a fascist period in the countrys history. Hughes MP, Craig Kelly, said he was mortified at reports he attended the Croatian...
Case at The Hague brought by Mothers of Srebrenica group blames Dutch peacekeepers for not preventing genocide Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre opened a civil suit against the Dutch government on Monday, saying Dutch peacekeepers should have protected the victims of Europe's worst massacre since the second world war. "They did not prevent the murder of thousands of civilians," the...
Serb nationalists trying to suppress reminders of atrocities committed against country's Muslims 20 years ago After survivors and bereaved families put up a memorial to the mass slaughter in 1992 of Muslims in Višegrad, the response of the Serb authorities in the eastern Bosnian town was as unsubtle as it was symbolic. They ordered the word "genocide" chiselled off the stone monument. A group of Višegrad...
Progressive party set for victory with leader Aleksandar Vucic pledging to fight corruption and push to join European Union Serbs voted in an election on Sunday that could give a clear parliamentary majority to a centre-right party that has vowed to overhaul the economy and push for EU membership. If the ruling Progressive party wins the most seats in Serbia's 250-member parliament, as polls predict,...
Some attack them and others guard them. Yet if Ukrainians looked at Yugoslavia, they'd see neither Russia nor the EU is the way forward A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Lenin. Back in 2011 Ukraine was preparing to host Euro 2012. The government decided to release a promotional video titled Switch On Ukraine. Among the sites shown in the video was Liberty Square in the north-eastern city...