Archive for November 6th, 2009

Cyprus said Friday it is time for the European Union to open accession talks with Serbia, and that the issue of Kosovo’s independence mustn’t be allowed to hamper the process. “Serbia itself feels it’s ready and its application for membership to the European Union should be evaluated on the same criteria as other candidate countries,”... »

Serbian police have arrested five people suspected of committing war crimes against civilians in eastern Bosnia in 1992, war crimes prosecutors said. The prosecutor’s office says the men rounded up a group of Roma, or Gypsies, in July 1992, beat them with rifles, raped the women and tortured the men. It says in a statement that... »