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Serbian Church Drug Rehab Program Under Investigation For Beating Patients

Huffington Post | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

Read More: Serbia, Serbian Rehab, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian Church, World News

Serbian officials are investigating the Crna Reka drug addiction rehab program run by the Serbian Orthodox Church after videos emerged showing what ap...

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British House of Commons: Demanding Justice For Armenians, Not Just Genocide Recognition

Harut Sassounian | Posted 06.20.2009 | World

Read More: Syria, Baroness Cox, BBC Radio, European Court of Human Rights, Genocide Denial, World Court, United Nations, British-Armenian All-Party Parliamentary Group, Feeding a Crocodile, Appeasement, London, Armenia, House of Lords, Winston Chruchill, British Parliament, Greece, Ottoman Empire, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem, New York Life Insurance, House of Commons, Turkey, Serbia, Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, Holocaust, European Parliament, United States, Armenian Genocide, Sultan Abdul Hamid, 1955 Istanbul Pogroms, U.S. Federal Courts, Kuwait, International Association of Genocide Scholars, Pres. Reagan, Great Britain, Varlik Vergisi, Slovenia, German Banks, Dr. Israel Charny, Istanbul-Turkey, Adana, Genoci, Axa, Genocide, World News

This continuum of massacres, genocide and deportations highlights the existence of a long-term strategy implemented by successive Turkish regimes from the 1890's to more recent times.

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Biden Arrives In Bosnia

AP | AIDA CERKEZ-ROBINSON | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Biden, Sarajevo, Biden Sarajevo, Joe Biden Bosnia, Biden Bosnia, Belgrade-Serbia, Serbia, Dayton-Ohio, Bosnia, Sarajevo-Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, World News

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Vice President Joe Biden sharply rebuked Bosnia's leaders Tuesday and warned that continued ethnic divisions thre...

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Richard Holbrooke: Able and Insufferable

John Brown | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Serbia, Holbrooke, Afghanistan, Public Diplomacy, Pakistan, Dayton, World News

I should think that someone who knows something about history, like Mr. Holbrooke, should realize the quagmire we are getting ourselves into at a time of economic crisis here at home.

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A Waltz with President al Bashir of Sudan

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 06.01.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lebanon, Sabra and Shatilla, Radovan Karadzic Serbia, Serbia, Hezbollah, Sabra-and-Shatilla, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, Waltz With Bashir, Hamas, Ratko Mladic, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Arabs, Sudan, Janjaweed Militia, Darfur Sudan, Israel, World News

Typically, talking about a crime by an Arab leader in the Middle East, one will almost always end up talking about other concerned parties. It seems to be a special built-in ability to auto-dodge accountability.

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World In Photos: April 29, 2009

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Photos, South Asia, Slideshow, Sri Lanka, Middle East, Basra Iraq, World Photos, Serbia, Asia, Israel, Iraq, Hong Kong, World in Photos, World News

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

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Gearing Up For Eurovision 2009 (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Video, Eurovision Song Contest, Eurovision 2009, Eurovision, Moscow, Europe, Moscow Russia, Russia Eurovision, Moscow Eurovision, Serbia, Belgrade-Serbia, Moscow-Russia, Bosnia, World News

The Eurovision Song Contest has been the premier international song festival for the past 53 years featuring such well-known artists such as ABBA, Jul...

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Cluster Bombs In The Balkans, 10 Years Later, Still Threaten 160,000 People

Inter Press Service | Vesna Peric Zimonjic | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: Cluster Bomb Treaty, Norwegian People's Aid, Cluster Bombs, Kosovo, Foreign Affairs, Balkans, Serbia, Cluster Bomb Ban, NATO Cluster Bomb Treaty, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, World News

BELGRADE, Apr 8 (IPS) - An estimated 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs, ten years after the N...

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Near DVD Quality of Wolverine Movie Leaked Online

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Serbia, Croatia, Home News

Hear that? That's the sound of executives at 20th Century Fox falling all over themselves in a desperate attempt to bring the Internet to a halt. Why?...

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Ratko Mladic: Mistaken Identity In Arrest For War-Crimes Suspect

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Yugoslavia Genocide Arrest, Bosnia, Foreign Affairs, Serbia, War Crimes Arrest, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia Genocide, Ratko Mladic, Ratko Mladic Arrested, War Crimes, Ratko Mladic War Crimes, Croatia, World News

NAIROBI, Kenya — A water-sports instructor was mistakenly arrested by Kenyan police who believed he was wanted for war crimes in the former Yugo...

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Yugoslavia Genocide Suspect Arrested In Kenya

The Standard | Cyrus Ombati | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Kenya, Croatia, Goran Hadzic, Genocide, Africa, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia Genocide, Ratko Mladic, International Criminal Court, Mombasa, World News

A Yugoslavia genocide suspect was yesterday arrested in a dramatic raid on his posh hotel in Mombasa in what police believe is a crucial operation....

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Serbia Marks 10-Year Anniversary To NATO Bombing Campaign

AFP | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Nato Bombing, Kosovo, Nato Serbian Bombing 10 Year Anniversary, Nato, Foreign Affairs, Serbia, Nato Serbian Bombing, Serbian Bombing, Advocacy, Europe, World News

Air-raid sirens wailed on Tuesday as Serbia marked the 10th anniversary of NATO's bombing campaign against the regime of late president Slobodan Milos...

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Radovan Karadzic Refuses To Enter Plea At The Hague

BBC | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Karadzic Serbia, Radovan Karadzic War Crimes, Bosnia, Radovan Karadzic the Hague, Karadzic War Crimes, Karadzic the Hague, Serbia, Radovan Karadzic Serbia, Bosnia Serbian, Europe, Radovan Karadzic, The Hague, World News

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has again refused to enter a plea at a UN tribunal at The Hague, where he is facing war crime charges. ...

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Kosovo Verdicts Shake Serbia

ABS-CBN News | David Vujanovic | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Icc, Kosovo, Serbia, Milan-Milutinovic-Trial, Interational Criminal Tribunal, Europe, Milan Milutinovic, Belgrade, International Criminal Court, The Hague, Milan Milutinovic Aquitted, World News

An ex-Serbian president cleared of war crimes is unlikely to get a hero's Friday on his return home, where the conviction of five other leaders is see...

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Former Serb President Cleared Of Kosovo War Crimes

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

Read More: Milan Milutinovic Trial, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Milan Milutinovic, Slobodan Milosovic, Serb President, Milan Milutinovic Aquitted, Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, Serbia, World News

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.N. judges on Thursday acquitted former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic of ordering a deadly campaign of terror ag...

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Hunt For Ratko Mladic, Serbian War Criminal, Intensifies

Guardian.co.uk | Julian Borger, Diplomatic Editor | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: Mladic, Europe, Bosnian Serb Leader, Bosnia, Belgrade Ratko Mladic, Serb General War Crimes, Serbia, Bosnia Muslims, Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic, World News

Western intelligence agencies have stepped up the hunt for Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general wanted for war crimes, by sending officials to Belgr...

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A Conflict We Need Not Fight Again: How A Little Attention Can Go A Long Way In Consolidating Past Successes In Bosnia

Richard Bennet | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Milorad Dodik, Bosnia, Jihadism, Serbia, Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Europe, Islamist Militants, Madrassas, Usaid, US Aid, World News

Perhaps as a result of a decrease in the amount of aid given to Bosnia, ethnic tension is on the rise and many have even forecasted the possibility of renewed violence.

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Forgetting Kosovo

Jessicah Curtis | Posted 01.23.2009 | World

Read More: Coverage, Violence, Kosovo, Europe, Albania, Nato, Eastern Europe, Serbia, Slobodan Milosovic, World News

Both Serbs and Albanians in Mitrovica, particularly those under 30, seemed tired of maintaining the levels of inter-ethnic hatred seen during the war.

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Obama Administration Needs to Take a Stand on Cluster Bombs

Donald Steinberg | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Lebanon, Montenegro, Kosovo, World, War, George W. Bush, Serbia, Obama Administration, Weapons, Laos, Barack Obama, Politics, Cluster Bombs, Cluster Munitions, Albania, Mines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Iraq, Barack Obama Administration, President Clinton, World News

Cluster munitions are particularly evil weapons. On falling to the ground, these bombs and shells separate into dozens of small bomblets, exploding on the enemy and civilians.

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Blagojevich Gets Little Love In Serbia

Chicago Tribune | Christine Spolar and Zoran Cirjakovic | Posted 01.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Serbian Media, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich Serbia, Serbia, Blagojevich Indictment, Blagojevich Corruption, Politika, Blic, Chicago News

Rod Blagojevich, a second-generation Serb-American, did not have a big public profile in Serbia. But the arrest of the Democratic Illinois governor me...

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Obama Gives New American Hope

Shari Cohen | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Hometown Heroes, University of California, Election Day, First Time Voter Obama, Serbia, Obama, Yugoslavia, Immigration, New Voter, Barack Obama, American Citizen, Immigrant, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Belgrade, Obama Immigrants, Voting, Home News

Meet Mitra, a 31 year old first time voter - I met her last weekend, volunteering at my local Obama campaign office. We've been working together eve...

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Previously Unknown Hagel Letter Warns Rice of Russia Collision

Steve Clemons | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abkhazia, Serbia, Robert Gates, Condoleezza Rice, US Foreign Policy, South Ossetia, Russia, Stephen Hadley, Chuck Hagel, Balkans, Kosovo, Blowback, Politics News

This letter warns the administration that its actions in the Balkans ran the risk of triggering blowback from Russia -- it seems it was ignored.

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UN Meeting This Weekend on Kosovo Status

Julia Gorin | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Julia Gorin, Kosovo Independence, George Bush, Albanians, Serbia, Serbs, Terrorism, Russia Georgia War, Russia Ossetia War, Politics News

Imagine the gall, the chutzpah, the arrogance that it would take to invent a major casualty like this -- the killing of a prominent newspaper editor.

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Arthur Jibilian, Last Surviving Member of WWII Halyard Rescue Mission, is Dying

Julia Gorin | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Serbia, Julia Gorin, Forgotten 500, Draza Mihailovich, Halyard Mission, Yahoo!, World War 2, Serbs, Russia Georgia War, Politics News

World War II Navy vet Arthur Jibilian, whom I have profiled somewhat and who spent the greater part of his life trying to clear the good name of Draza...

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A Grateful Nation is Mesmerized by Michael Phelps

Bill Katovsky | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Serbia, Beijing, Georgia, Olympics, Michael Phelps, Politics News

Athletic heroes like Phelps are a rare breed, individualistic, disciplined, driven by an inner need to achieve success while ignoring pain -- if only our politicians could follow their example.

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