Latest Balkans History News
- Bush urges more countries to recognize Kosovo 25 Jul 2008 06:59 GMT
... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on ... W. Bush on Monday told leaders of Kosovo he would urge more countries to recognize the former Serbian province and he opposed partition of the newly-independent ...
- Not justice, but politics 25 Jul 2008 06:59 GMT
... He was captured on Bus 83 from New Belgrade ... leadership in the brutal ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and Croats, had been arrested. Headlines ... "one hundred times worse [than that of Croatia]" and would "bring about the of the ...
- Woods haunted by mass murder 25 Jul 2008 06:56 GMT
... THE FRUITS of Radovan Karadzic’s hate lay thick in ... July 1995 massacre of more than 7500 Bosnian Muslims, the ground in the forest was ... he offered the vision of a Greater Serbia as the only sanctuary against the contrived ...
- Brazilian Products Win Design Awards in the US 25 Jul 2008 06:35 GMT
... Twelve Brazilian designers won the most important prize ... winners. For the first time in the history of the competition, the expert jury bestowed ... Brazil, Canada, People's Republic of China, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, ...
- Political, religious battles loom between Ukraine, Russia over Orthodox baptism celebration 25 Jul 2008 06:31 GMT
... KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Solemn hymns and prayers are ... West. «Ukraine is an independent state like Bulgaria or Georgia, and it is normal for it to ... abrupt the split will be. «In the historical perspective, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church must gain ...
- Staring across the table at Karadzic, the face of evil 25 Jul 2008 06:30 GMT
... 1995, the height of the war in Bosnia. Finally, after years of weak Western and ... dangerous dirt road that went through sniper-filled, Serbian-controlled territory. I did not shake hands, although ... still undermining peace and progress in the Balkans and whose enthusiastic advocacy of ethnic cleansing ...
- Letters to the Editor July 25, 2008 25 Jul 2008 05:51 GMT
... A Sound Off caller was so proud of his ... the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. If this was a ... in South Korea and troops in Japan, Bosnia, Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan. There could be ...
- Lowell Folk Festival offers grassroots experience 25 Jul 2008 05:15 GMT
... and communications director for the Lowell National Historical Park. The park, which is under the ... Orchestra, a six-piece band specializing in the Balkan music of Eastern Europe. Penpa Tsering presents the music ...
- A self-professed intellectual who felt he understood his people 25 Jul 2008 05:12 GMT
... Still ahead, in those first two years of the ... seized Karadzic and his partner in the Bosnian slaughter, the army commander General Ratko Mladic, ... across the mountains from towns overrun by Serbian paramilitaries, who had gone house to house ...
- Change of command 25 Jul 2008 05:08 GMT
... Last post: Director of the enlisted personnel management directorate ... and served overseas in Germany, Iraq and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Combat experience: May commanded the 2nd Armored ... the 43rd commander in the post's 91-year history, succeeded Brig. Gen. James Schwitters, who retired ...
- A World That Stands as One, by Barack Obama, presidential candidate. 25 Jul 2008 05:08 GMT
... the largest and most unlikely rescue in history brought food and hope to the people of ... a way to live together; in the Balkans, where our Atlantic alliance ended wars and ...
- 1,500m women stars eye gold in Beijing Olympics 25 Jul 2008 05:06 GMT
... 1,500m women stars eye gold in Beijing Olympics Written ... to win at the Olympics and write history as the first Kenyan to bag a ... who are very good. The likes of Romanian Liliana Popescu (4:00.35), Gelete Burka of Ethiopia ...
- Balkans: No More Yawns 25 Jul 2008 05:00 GMT
... and the press tend to nap over Balkan issues. Now there’s a reason to wake ... of siege under Karadzic’s leadership of the Bosnian Serbs. At the same time, it is ... region like a caretaker government handles business. Croatia? Its leaders are in discussions on joining ...
- Europe's other legitimacy crisis 25 Jul 2008 04:47 GMT
... The real target of a severe European commission report ... report on the failures of governance in Bulgaria contains a deeper message about the European ... their dream of joining the Union. As historians will testify, most of the great political ...
- War and peace 25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT
... friendly faces of a group of young Bosnians, who are bouncing towards me with a ... collapsed and Bosnia was amalgamated with Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Montenegro to form Yugoslavia ... itself crumbled in 1991, heralding the horrendous pan-Balkans conflicts when ethnic cleansing was commonplace. The ...
- Kenya: Olympics - Kenyan Trio Chase Elusive Women's Gold 25 Jul 2008 04:44 GMT
... Unlike their male counterparts in the 1,500 metres, Kenyan ... overdue gold medal entry into Kenyan Olympic history should be achieved if the trio of ... a reprieve after Popescu was dropped from Romania's team for the Beijing Olympics after failing ...
- Tebow a team player 25 Jul 2008 04:42 GMT
... HOOVER, Ala. -- He has been a college ... classes on mission trips to the Philippines, Croatia and Thailand. In the Philippines the doctors ... be the best individual performance in the history of college football in 2007. No college ...
- The FP Interview: Richard Holbrooke on Radovan Karadzic 25 Jul 2008 04:42 GMT
... As someone who dealt closely with the Balkans under the Clinton administration, and sat across ... [former Philippine President Ferdinand] Marcos, and [late Serbian President Slobodan] Milosevic, but I felt that ... applies not just to the war in Bosnia, but more urgently, to the situation in ...
- Tebow commands undivided attention 25 Jul 2008 04:41 GMT
... Published: Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 6:30 a.m. ... classes on mission trips to the Philippines, Croatia and Thailand. In the Philippines the doctors ... be the best individual performance in the history of college football in 2007. No college ...
- Experts: Greater Miami can support new aviation manufacturer 25 Jul 2008 04:38 GMT
... Experts: Greater Miami can support new aviation manufacturer ... and South Carolina, the United Arab Emirates, Croatia and Indonesia. But here in South Florida, ... the size of the airport and the history of aviation in Miami, so it's no ...
- 'Bumbling' Karadzic faces political justice 25 Jul 2008 04:36 GMT
... dissolution. With the declaration of independence by Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, Karadzic, then head of the ... (SDS), struck back at both Bosnian and Croatian forces with effective and brutal results. His ... 1990s still haunt the landscape of the Balkans. One of the vices of nationalism is ...
- Commentary: Serbia's Lessons for Sudan 25 Jul 2008 04:34 GMT
... good news for the victims of the Bosnian war and their relatives. As one woman ... the arrest has significance well beyond the Balkans – most obviously and immediately, in Sudan. ... in 1991; then a larger one in Croatia; then a still larger war in Bosnia, ...
- Deceptions of Elections 25 Jul 2008 03:31 GMT
... Belgrade , Serbia: Editor, Elections, decision-making process by which a ... with any other Presidential candidate in US history; many talk about him, adore him, and ...
- Friday, August 1 25 Jul 2008 01:49 GMT
... Today is Friday, August 1, the 214th day of ... days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date 1291 - The Swiss ... 2,000 deaths in concentration camps during the Bosnia-Herzegovina war, dies of a heart attack weeks ...
- A memorable musical tribute 25 Jul 2008 01:47 GMT
... A rich musical offering concentrated into one single performance by ... would be an important figure in the history of music. After winning the Liverpool International ... do with humanity. After the war in Bosnia, he performed Mozart's Requiem with the Sarajevo ...
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