s "unfinest hour", when the internationally recognised Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina was devastated by an invasion by Serbia on precisely such a pretext of defending ethnic brethren (replicating a pattern already pioneered in its earlier assault on Croatia)? The same Rifkind who, as foreign secretary in 1995, helped prepare the infamous Dayton accords, awarding half of Bosnia...
s remains from Tesla museum in Belgrade and rebury them in church A furious dispute has erupted between Serbian scientists and the Orthodox church after it was announced that the remains of the inventor Nikola Tesla will be reburied in a church. A pioneer in fields such as electricity, radio and x-rays, Tesla had 300 patents under his name by the time he died in 1943 and is revered by some as one of...
Masked men fire teargas and smash ballot boxes at three polling stations on Serb side of Mitrovica Elections in Kosovo were marred by violence and intimidation by Serb hardliners on Sunday. ...
s 1992-95 war. Looking frail, Mladic, now 71, was called by Karadzic, 68, to appear against his will as a defence witness in the latter's trial. The two men are on trial separately, each accused of devising and executing a conspiracy to "ethnically cleanse" Bosnia of its Muslims and Croats to create a pure Serb state following its secession from the former Serbian-led federal Yugoslavia. "I do not...
Serbian Orthodox Christians celebrating the Nativity of Christ ( Christmas Day ) liturgy at the Lazarica church, constructed and decorated in 14th Century Byzantine style using Serbian materials, in Bournville, Birmingham. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January in accordance with the original Julian calendar. ...
s state commission for missing persons, said. About 10,000 people are believed to have died in the crackdown by Serbian police and army on an ethnic Albanian rebellion in its former province. The war ended when Nato launched air strikes against Serbia in 1999. Most victims were Albanians. More than 1,700 people are still missing. The inquiry leading to the discovery was a joint effort by Kosovo, Serbia...
An unexploded bomb from the second world war has been discovered by construction workers in Belgrade, Serbia ...
Partial victory for alleged war criminal who now faces fresh legal hurdles before a decision can be made on extradition bid ...
s status within the federation – was to become a major concern, culminating in his 1989 book The Kosovo Knot. This provided hard figures challenging the alleged "mass enforced exodus" of Serbs from the still autonomous province, a favourite complaint of Serb nationalists seeking to roll back the gains Kosovo had made under the 1974 federal constitution. In 1990, horrified by the exacerbated nationalism...
s prime minister has issued a last-ditch appeal to Kosovan Serbs to vote in critical elections this weekend that are widely seen as a make-or-break moment for the republic. In an interview with the Guardian, Hashim Thaçi said that the abandonment of polling after attacks in northern Kosovo earlier this month was a result of "pressure, threats and other methods", and added that he would hold Serbia...
Novak Djokovic goes into Serbia's Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic full of confidence after winning against Rafael Nadal in the ATP World Tour Final in London ...
never again'," continues Ziadeh, clicking off his PowerPoint, and handing over the podium to the next speaker. This is a quietly determined American woman who knows all too well that those words, uttered at the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg more than 60 years ago, have proved somewhat hollow. With an estimated 48,000 people, mostly civilians, missing in Syria alone – victims of forced disappearances,...
Fans light a bonfire in the stadium during a derby match between Red Star and Partizan ...
t been established, there is a fear that the whole Roma community across Europe is being put on trial for something which might or might not have happened in one family," she says. Now a teaching assistant at a Sheffield secondary school, 28-year-old Demeova, who is Roma, says she grew up with daily prejudice and discrimination, which persists in her native Slovakia. "I was segregated at school, kept...
s Balkan war veterans rights are enshrined in law Serbian fighters battle Belgrade for even basic benefits A wounded leg brought Zeljko Vukelic home from the war. Back in Serbia, injured pride placed him on another warpath. Like a scar, the frontline has followed him. "It's just like the Krajina," he says, comparing the battlefield where he faced Croatian forces 20 years ago to his present-day standoff...
s emergency hospital, where she had been receiving care since August, said Zlatibor Loncar, the hospital's director. "With Broz's death, we are left without one of the last most reliable witnesses of our former country's history," said the Serbian prime minister, Ivica Dacic, in a message of condolence. Tito led the Partisan communist resistance movement that fought the Nazi occupiers of what was then...
s 1992-95 war. The 15-day survey, the first in 22 years, should give the most detailed snapshot yet of the enduring upheaval of the war, in which some 100,000 people were killed and 2 million were driven from their homes. The results will provide data vital for efficient economic planning and for Bosnia's ambition to join the European Union . But preparations have been marred by tension between leaders...
s former Wardenclyffe laboratory in Long Island The president of Serbia unveiled a monument to Nikola Tesla in New York state on Monday, marking the latest milestone in a long-running campaign to raise the profile of the cult scientist and inventor around the world. Tomislav Nikolic told the crowd at Tesla's former Wardenclyffe laboratory in Long Island that the scientist was a man whose "ideas were...
d seen this done in movies, of course. Since we were in downtown Belgrade, the basements were already occupied. My neighbour, Mica, was a Roma beggar and prostitute with a crippled arm. When all the tenants flew to her humble room Mica was proud to play the hostess, and met us with a powerful brandy from an unmarked bottle. The threat of death became the great equaliser. We forgot our documents, our...
s focus on fossil fuels has had a negative impact on communities. It's time to change direction Earlier this year, Barack Obama pledged that the US would no longer finance overseas coal plants through the US Export-Import Bank. This created a domino effect: the World Bank announced it would drop virtually all support for coal projects, then the house bank of the EU, the European Investment Bank (EIB),...