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  • Serb boycott of Kosovo poll likely to overshadow country's first election 14 Nov 2009 02:14 GMT
    ... CAMPAIGN VIOLENCE and a likely Serb boycott are ... a shadow over tomorrow's local elections in Kosovo, its first ballot since declaring independence. Prime ... country's population. Belgrade officials and the influential Serbian Orthodox Church have discouraged Kosovo Serbs from voting. ...

  • Bosnia's Dual Crisis 14 Nov 2009 04:40 GMT
    ... Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) post-war status quo has ended ... in compliance with the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), make it more functional and resolve ...

  • Is our country losing Mother Teresa? 14 Nov 2009 10:50 GMT
    ... With the birth centenary of Mother Teresa approaching in ... with India, her place of choice, or Albania, her place of origin. Since 1950, for ... birth. There is a further complication, that Macedonia may also be a claimant. Born to ...

  • Ill Will Grows in a Former Colonial Region as France Consorts With the Powerful (Yesterday) 14 Nov 2009 05:54 GMT
    ... A close associate of Mr. Sarkozy's, Patrick Balkany, was quoted by the French press as ... the country as a "pole of moderation." Amnesty International recently noted persistent human rights abuses by Cameroon officials, including torture, extrajudicial ...

  • Tearing down the Iron Curtain - Europe remembers 14 Nov 2009 04:39 GMT
    ... Tearing down the Iron Curtain – Europe remembers ... Slovenia all became EU members. In 2007, Romania and Bulgaria also joined. EU citizens now travel, work ...

  • We should stop outsourcing the Pakistan problem to the US 14 Nov 2009 06:34 GMT
    ... Sunil Khilnani, author of the acclaimed 'The Idea of ... an itinerant life, growing up in Kenya, Romania and Scotland besides Delhi, studying at Cambridge ... business czars have preferred to overlook his human rights record and have openly endorsed him for ...

  • A volatile mixture 14 Nov 2009 09:15 GMT
    ... Vermonters have followed the career of Peter Galbraith ... He was the nation's first ambassador to Croatia. He was a stout defender of the ... as a bold and outspoken defender of human rights. That's why the recent news accounts that ...

  • Serbian Candidates To Run In Kosovo's First Postindependence Vote 13 Nov 2009 23:33 GMT
    ... Serbian Candidates To Run In Kosovo's First Postindependence Vote An electoral billboard goes up for a Serbian-minority party in Gracanica. ...

  • Macedonia must guarantee the right to freedom of peaceful assembly 13 Nov 2009 13:59 GMT
    ... Macedonia must guarantee the right to freedom of ... these rights,” said Sian Jones, Amnesty International’s Balkans expert. The organizers of the march are ... and to stand up in defence of human rights and freedoms,” said Sian Jones. The Tolerance ...

  • Presheva Valley Albanians have no TV in their native language 13 Nov 2009 12:55 GMT
    ... It's been almost eight years since the signed agreement ... signed agreement between Presheva Valley leadership and Serbia government, mediated by then EU mediator Peter Feith, ... Unlike in Presheva Valley situation, Serbia's neighbor, Kosovo, has recently initiated to open the first ...

  • Bosnian Muslims Appeal Mosque Ruling 13 Nov 2009 19:11 GMT
    ... Banja Luka court says Muslim community filed damages for ... in Sarajevo (TU No 624, 13-Nov-09) The Bosnian Muslim community has vowed to appeal against ... would be made the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. “It is sad that it ...

  • The long-lasting '89 13 Nov 2009 11:31 GMT
    ... the reunification of the continent. For the Balkans and the Caucasus, this process of transformation ... authentic sovereignty - let us think of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, or the de facto ... organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia have assumed an active role in the ...

  • New member states still adjusting to EU 13 Nov 2009 17:10 GMT
    ... Jan Marinus Wiersma, a Dutch politician, has for many ... EU rules. I have more doubts about Romania and Bulgaria. I think that they maybe went too ...

  • Ill Will Grows in a Former Colonial Region as France Consorts With the Powerful (Today) 13 Nov 2009 08:49 GMT
    ... A close associate of Mr. Sarkozy's, Patrick Balkany, was quoted by the French press as ... the country as a "pole of moderation." Amnesty International recently noted persistent human rights abuses by Cameroon officials, including torture, extrajudicial ...

  • Back from the dead: Turnbull's TPVs 13 Nov 2009 07:16 GMT
    ... Posted Friday, 13 November 2009 at 1:59 pm Simple ... Haven Visas worked terribly well for some Bosnians either. They still had their futures in the ... haven visas were dreadful. Many of the Kosovars were locked up and treated like criminals ...


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