BOSNIA: MAN SENTENCED TO 45 YEARS FOR WAR CRIMES
By AIDA CERKEZ In this screen grab taken from video, provided by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Veselin Vlahovic, during his sentencing in court, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina,…
Eastern Europe
PUTIN: RAIDS ON NGOS ARE TO CHECK FOREIGN FUNDING
By MAX SEDDON Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the BRICS 2013 Summit in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Heads of State of BRICS nations meet in the…
BOSNIAN SERBS GUILTY OF BOSNIA WAR PERSECUTION
Former Bosnian Serb senior security official and police chief Stojan Zupljanin, right, welcomes his lawyer prior to his judgment in the courtroom of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The…
3-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOR EX-ROMANIAN DIPLOMAT
FILE – A Jan. 12, 2011 file picture shows former Romanian diplomat Silviu Ionescu at a court room in Bucharest, Romania. A Romanian court on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, handed…
GYPSIES FLOCK TO BRIDAL FAIR AS PARENTS NEGOTIATE
By GREGORY KATZ This Saturday, March 23, 2013 photo shows people watching Roma girl and boy from the Kalaidzhi community dancing on the trunk of a car, during so called…
POLICE: NO HAZARDOUS MATERIAL AT BEREZOVSKY SITE
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD British police officers cordon off a road near a residence in Ascot, a town 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of London, Saturday, March 23, 2013. Boris Berezovsky,…
UK POLICE: RUSSIAN TYCOON BEREZOVSKY FOUND DEAD
By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD FILE – A Wednesday, July 18, 2007 photo from files showing Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned…
CYPRUS TO VOTE ON NEW PLAN, EUROPE SKEPTICAL
MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Protesting employees of Laiki bank chant slogans outside the Cypriot parliament, Friday, March 22, 2013. Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches Friday to a plan they hope…