Security forces in the Russian region of Ingushetia killed four militants on Saturday, including a rebel leader, Russian news agencies reported. The four died in an exchange of fire between Russian, Ingush and Chechen forces and a group of militants near the Chechen border, Interfax and RIA quoted sources at …

BISHKEK The United States has no objections to Russia opening a second military base in Kyrgyzstan, a senior US diplomat said on Sunday during a visit to the Central Asian nation.

DOBRICH Minister of Economy and Energy Petar Dimitrov said at a press conference in Dobrich, that it is very important Boyko Borisov to understand that elections are over in Bulgaria. “It is virtually the country’s new prime minister and hereafter must take the governing,” Petar Dimitrov said, speaking about the …

BRATUNAC Serbs in Bratunac and Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, are today marking 17 years since the massacre of more than 3,200 of their compatriots.They were killed in 1992 and 1993 by the forces led by Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) Naser Orić.On July 12, 1992 alone, 69 Serbs were killed, 70 were wounded …

PODGORICA Montenegrin President Filip Vujanović says that his country will soon have its ambassador in Belgrade.Podgorica’s top diplomatic envoy to Serbia was expelled last year after Montenegro recognized Kosovo Albanians’ independence declaration.

SKOPJE Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu has arrived in Macedonia, where he is on an unofficial visit.He was invited by Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov.The visit is seen as improvement of relations, since Sejdiu in June canceled his trip to Skopje, unhappy that Ivanov did not plan to receive him with full …

SARAJEVO Tarik Sadović, ministar sigurnosti i zamjenik predsjedavajućeg Vijeća ministara BiH, odbija podnijeti ostavku na ovu funkciju sve dok predsjednik SDA Sulejman Tihić ne objavi razloge zbog kojih traži njegovu smjenu. Sadović tvrdi da njegovu smjenu od Tihića traže Rafi Gregorijan i Čarls Ingliš, prvi zamjenik visokog predstavnika i američki …

MOSCOW Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warmly thanked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for the high-level holding of the G8 summit. Medvedev in a telephone talk on Saturday noted the high level of the preparation for the summit, both in the organisational aspect and in point of the content of the …

Military observers and police of what was the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) will leave Abkhazia at the end of next week, as the operation proceeds with its liquidation, the world body announced today. 

Sarajevo – Several hundred people are expected to gathered Saturday at the Potocari Memorial Park in Bosnia to mark the 14th anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The remains of 534 victims will be buried later in the day. So far a total of 3,749 identified bodies have been buried …