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UN Court Convicts Serb General for Balkan Atrocities

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:10:00 CDT

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal sentenced the former chief of the Yugoslav army to 27 years in prison today for providing crucial military aid to Bosnian Serb forces responsible for the Srebrenica massacre, as well as a deadly four-year campaign of shelling and sniping in Sarajevo. The case against Gen....

Last Serbian War Criminal Arrested

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:32:54 CDT

Serbia has arrested the last of its indicted war criminals, Goran Hadzic. Hadzic, president of the de facto government of Serb territories that broke away in former Yugoslavia, was in hiding for seven years. With his arrest, all 161 people indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for alleged war crimes...

Serbia: We've Got Ratko Mladic

Polly Davis Doig — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:57:37 CDT

Ratko Mladic, Europe's most notorious war crimes fugitive whose long years on the lam have thwarted Serbia's EU membership, has been arrested, confirms Serbian President Boris Tadic in a rushed news conference this morning. "On behalf of the Republic of Serbia, we announce that Ratko Mladic has been arrested," said...

Man Tries to Open a Grenade...

Kate Schwartz — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:34:04 CDT

Today, in the Brainiac Department: A man goes walking in a field in Croatia and stumbles upon a grenade left over from the Homeland War of the early '90s. What's his first thought? Scrap metal! The 53-year-old took the grenade home and attempted to break it apart in his garage...

Teen Emerges From Coma Fluent in German

John Johnson — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:47:03 CDT

A bizarre tale from Croatia: The Daily Mail and the Telegraph are reporting that a 13-year-old girl emerged from a 24-hour coma unable to speak her native Croatian but fluent in German. The girl reportedly had basic lessons in German before falling ill and had been watching German TV programs,...

US Uses Aid Dollars to Keep Allies in Afghanistan

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:02:22 CDT

The Pentagon is pouring millions of dollars into equipment and training for its smaller partner nations in the Afghanistan war, a new effort aimed at encouraging them not to abandon the increasingly unpopular conflict. While the funding cannot be openly used as an incentive for NATO nations to send troops...

Croatian Nazis Disrupt Aussie Open

Emily Rauhala — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:00:00 CST

Australia's Croatian community today condemned a gang of young Croatian neo Nazis who have been chanting ethnic slurs, spitting and giving Hitler salutes at the Australian Tennis Open. Their actions give "the whole community a bad name," said a spokesman. Two members of the group face murder charges in an...

Latest Celebrity Getaways

John Johnson — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:47:19 CST

With Dubai in dire straits, where will jet-setters go now? The Frisky knows. See full details here . Morocco: Big names like Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston were in Marrakesh recently for the opening of a Chopard jewelry boutique. Croatia: With the war over, celebs such as Steven Spielberg and Robert...

What Bailout? AIG CEO Prefers Making Wine

Jason Farago — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:25:00 CDT

New AIG chief Robert Benmosche has garnered reams of bad coverage since taking over the train-wreck insurer—and nearly a month into the job, he's still at his holiday villa in Croatia. Reuters visited Benmosche at his coastal idyll and finds his true passion to be not finance but the...