Russia draws criticism over decree on Georgian rebel regionsRUSSIA DEFIED the West by recognising the independence of the rebel Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia yesterday, …Wed Aug 27 2008 - 01:00
Russia denies breaking ceasefire deal in GeorgiaGEORGIA: RUSSIA HAS rejected western claims that it was breaking a ceasefire deal by maintaining military checkpoints deep inside…Mon Aug 25 2008 - 01:00
Georgia pulls troops out of South Ossetia but fighting spreadsGEORGIA WITHDREW its forces from rebel South Ossetia yesterday and called on Russia to enter peace talks, despite Moscow-backed…Mon Aug 11 2008 - 01:00
Villagers flee shelling as fighting for capital intensifiesA DAY that dawned with the flash and roar of rockets and the incessant chatter of automatic gunfire ended with Russian tanks …Sat Aug 09 2008 - 01:00
Russia and Georgia on brink of warGEORGIAN AND Russian troops were fighting for control of the separatist region of South Ossetia last night, after a day of fierce…Sat Aug 09 2008 - 01:00
Georgian president offers ceasefire to separatistsGEORGIA: GEORGIAN PRESIDENT Mikheil Saakashvili offered a ceasefire last night to separatists in South Ossetia, after fierce…Fri Aug 08 2008 - 01:00
Croatia defends Balkans war conductCROATIA: CROATIA HAS refused to apologise to Serbia for its conduct during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, as it marked the 13th…Wed Aug 06 2008 - 01:00
Serb leader pledges to catch fugitivesSERBIA: SERB PRESIDENT Boris Tadic vowed yesterday to catch Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, the two remaining war crimes fugitives…Mon Aug 04 2008 - 01:00
Georgian separatists evacuate children amid claims of troop attacks on civiliansGEORGIA: SEPARATISTS IN Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia said yesterday that they had evacuated about 1,000 children…Mon Aug 04 2008 - 01:00
War crimes suspect had false ID and practised medicineRADOVAN KARADZIC was living under a false name, had radically changed his appearance and was working as a practitioner of alternative…Wed Jul 23 2008 - 01:00
Czech parliament to be asked to vote despite oppositionRATIFICATION THE CZECH government will ask parliament to vote on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty this autumn, but the country…Sat Jul 19 2008 - 01:00
Muslims furious at anthem and symbols adopted by Bosnian SerbsBOSNIA: BOSNIA'S MUSLIMS are furious with the country's Serb republic for adopting an anthem and emblems that allegedly glorify…Thu Jul 17 2008 - 01:00
Bulgaria likely to lose €.5m in funding because of corruptionBULGARIA: FEARS ARE growing in Bulgaria that the European Union will withhold funding next week to punish it for its failure…Thu Jul 17 2008 - 01:00
RUSSIAN RETURNSAs the Kremlin reasserts itself with Russia's huge gas and oil reserves, the world awaits its next move, writes Daniel McLaughlin…Mon Jul 14 2008 - 01:00
Bosnian Muslims gather in Srebrenica for anniversary of 1995 massacre by SerbsBOSNIA: TENS OF thousands of Bosnian Muslims gathered in Srebrenica yesterday for the anniversary of the 1995 Serb massacre …Sat Jul 12 2008 - 01:00
Rice calls on Russia to broker peace in GeorgiaUS: US SECRETARY of state Condoleezza Rice yesterday urged Russia to help broker peace between Georgia's government and two …Fri Jul 11 2008 - 01:00
Former Polish minister convicted over deathsPOLAND: A FORMER Polish interior minister was convicted yesterday over the deaths of nine miners killed during a 1981 communist…Fri Jul 11 2008 - 01:00
Romanian court quashes Bill seeking to balance 'good' and 'bad' newsROMANIA'S HIGHEST court has quashed a Bill that would have forced television and radio broadcasters to give equal airtime to "…Thu Jul 10 2008 - 01:00
Russia condemns US defence deal with Czech RepublicRUSSIA: RUSSIA WILL consider how to retaliate over a planned US missile shield but wants to continue talks on the issue with…Thu Jul 10 2008 - 01:00
Czechs agree to host part of US missile defence shieldCZECH REPUBLIC / US: THE CZECH Republic signed a deal with the United States yesterday to allow it to build part of a missile…Wed Jul 09 2008 - 01:00
Sevastopol clashes stoke Russia-Ukraine tensionUKRAINE: DOZENS OF ethnic Russians have clashed with Ukrainian sailors in the port city of Sevastopol, where tension is running…Mon Jul 07 2008 - 01:00
Platini gives deadline date for Euro 2012UEFA PRESIDENT Michel Platini has given Poland and Ukraine until September to accelerate their building programme for the 2012…Sat Jul 05 2008 - 01:00
Crackdown feared after Belarus bomb blastBELARUS: ABOUT 50 people were injured yesterday when a bomb ripped through an outdoor concert in Belarus, the tightly controlled…Sat Jul 05 2008 - 01:00
Canoeists sucked into dam's water tunnelsSLOVENIA: EIGHT SLOVENIANS have died and five more are missing after their canoes were crushed and they were sucked into the…Sat Jul 05 2008 - 01:00
Bosnian Muslim commander's conviction quashed by UN courtUN TRIBUNAL: SERBS HAVE condemned yesterday's acquittal by the UN war crimes court in The Hague of Naser Oric, the former bodyguard…Fri Jul 04 2008 - 01:00
Czech president hopes court will block LisbonCZECH REPUBLIC: CZECH PRESIDENT Vaclav Klaus said yesterday that he hoped the EU's Lisbon Treaty would be blocked by his country…Fri Jul 04 2008 - 01:00
Poland plays hardball in talks with US over proposed missile basePOLAND: POLAND IS refusing to reduce its demands in tense talks over hosting a US missile base, despite Washington's impatience…Thu Jul 03 2008 - 01:00
Lithuania accuses Russian hackers of cyber assault after collapse of over 300 websitesLITHUANIA: COMPUTER HACKERS have attacked hundreds of Lithuanian websites and replaced their content with the Soviet hammer …Wed Jul 02 2008 - 01:00
Raped girl (11) flees Romania for abortion in BritainROMANIA: AN 11-YEAR-OLD Romanian girl who has been at the centre of an abortion row after allegedly being raped by her uncle…Tue Jul 01 2008 - 01:00
Czech court told Lisbon in accord with constitutionCZECH REPUBLIC: THE GOVERNMENT of the Czech Republic, which is deeply divided over whether to ratify the EU's Lisbon Treaty, …Mon Jun 30 2008 - 01:00
Raped Romanian girl (11) allowed to have an abortionROMANIA: A ROMANIAN government commission has allowed an 11-year-old girl - who became pregnant after being raped by her uncle…Sat Jun 28 2008 - 01:00
The strange case of a journalist with a killer deadlineThe remote town of Kicevo in Macedonia was gripped by news reports of a serial killer, but the local journalist on the case seemed…Sat Jun 28 2008 - 01:00
Clashes over abortion for 11-year-old rape victimROMANIA: AN 11-YEAR-OLD Romanian girl who is pregnant with her uncle's child plans to fly to Britain for an abortion next week…Fri Jun 27 2008 - 01:00
Serbian Socialists agree alliance with Democrats to form pro-EU coalitionSERBIA: Serbia's Socialist Party has agreed to join an alliance headed by the Democratic Party to form a pro-European coalition…Tue Jun 24 2008 - 01:00
Reporter accused of murders found dead in jailMACEDONIA: A MACEDONIAN JOURNALIST accused of sexually assaulting and killing at least two elderly women before reporting on…Tue Jun 24 2008 - 01:00
Ukraine mired in crisis as PM's allies block work of parliamentUKRAINE: UKRAINE IS again teetering on the brink of political crisis, as allies of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko block the…Sat Jun 21 2008 - 01:00
Bulgaria suspends EU-funded projects amid graft suspicionBULGARIA: BULGARIA HAS suspended €88 million of EU-funded roadbuilding projects amid suspicions of graft and mismanagement, …Fri Jun 20 2008 - 01:00
Bosnia welcomes signing of pre-accession pact with EUBOSNIA: BOSNIAN AND European Union officials hailed the Balkan state's signing of a pre-accession pact yesterday as a major …Tue Jun 17 2008 - 01:00
Kosovo signs new constitution to more criticism from SerbiaKOSOVO: KOSOVO'S FIRST constitution as a sovereign state came into force yesterday, but Serbia refused to recognise it and fears…Mon Jun 16 2008 - 01:00
Russia and Serbia attack UN chief's plan for KosovoSERBIA: SERBIA ACCUSED UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon yesterday of overstepping his authority and jeopardising Balkan stability…Sat Jun 14 2008 - 01:00
Serb officials reject war crimes suspect's claim of innocenceSERBIA: SERB OFFICIALS have rejected a claim by war crimes suspect Stojan Zupljanin that they have the wrong man and are pressing…Fri Jun 13 2008 - 01:00
Police capture Bosnian war crimes suspectSERBIA: SERB POLICE arrested war crimes suspect Stojan Zupljanin yesterday and prepared to send him to the UN tribunal at The…Thu Jun 12 2008 - 01:00
Serbia coalition talks go down to the wireSERBIA: SERBIA'S NEW parliament is due to convene today, with the pro-EU Democrats and ultra-nationalist Radicals still vying…Wed Jun 11 2008 - 01:00
Rescuers search for 13 miners as 23 others found alive in Ukrainian mineUKRAINE: RESCUE WORKERS were searching for 13 Ukrainian miners last night after finding 23 of their colleagues alive in a colliery…Tue Jun 10 2008 - 01:00
'Dr Iron Fist' primed to punch his way to post of Kiev mayorUKRAINE: IN THE rough-and-tumble world of Ukrainian politics, contenders don't come much tougher than Vitali Klitschko, the …Sat May 24 2008 - 01:00
Saakashvili claims victory in disputed Georgian ballotGEORGIA: THE PARTY of Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili claimed yesterday to have won a crushing general election victory…Fri May 23 2008 - 01:00
Curtain up on Havel's first play in 20 yearsCZECH REPUBLIC: PRAGUE IS preparing for one of Europe's theatrical events of the year as the first play in two decades from …Thu May 22 2008 - 01:00
Ex-king throws crown into ring for top EU jobSOFIA LETTER: IN A region that executed or expelled its previous generation of monarchs, and where prime ministers are still…Wed May 21 2008 - 01:00
Pressure on Serbia's Socialists mounts to form governmentSERBIA: A WEEK after finely balanced general elections, pressure is mounting on Serbia's Socialists to form a coalition government…Tue May 20 2008 - 01:00
Rift between Ukraine PM and president worsensUKRAINE: THE RIFT between Ukraine's prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, and its president, Viktor Yushchenko, deepened yesterday…Wed May 14 2008 - 01:00
