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War crimes defendant Radovan Karadzic was bumped from his usual courtroom and his spot on closed-circuit television at the Hague tribunal on Friday by his former partner Ratko Mladic.

Wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic will appear again before a UN court on July 4, when he will be required to enter a plea to genocide and war crimes charges. He refused to enter a plea to genocide and war crimes charges in a UN court on Friday, …

The prospect of a second bailout for debt-stricken Greece assuaged market fears of default on Friday as the country’s prime minister flew to Luxembourg to present plans for deeper austerity measures.

War crimes suspect Ratko Mladic appeared before the UN war crimes court in the Hague for the first time on Friday, telling judges that he is a “gravely ill man”. “I defended my country and my people,” Mladic said defiantly at the end of Friday’s initial hearing. He repeated

Serge Brammertz, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, has said that his office does not plan to expand the indictment against Mladic to include crimes committed in Croatia allegedly by troops under his command, including killings in Skabrnja in November 1991.

Serbian President Boris Tadič has said that “unconventional” moves were necessary in Serbia’s policy toward Kosovo. That would provide a chance “for a new solution”, he said. Tadić also believes that the way in which official Belgrade treated Kosovo in the past was “contrary to the interests of Serbia and …

“A name with a geographic term is an acceptable solution for Greece for the name dispute with Macedonia”, said Greek foreign minister Dimitris Droutsas. He added

President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy will meet Serbian President Boris Tadić in Brussels on June 6. Tadić and Rompuy will have talks on the very same day when ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz is due

Serbian President Boris Tadić said that he hoped the EU would set a date for the beginning of accession negotiations for early 2012. According to him, Serbia is not asking for a special treatment from the EU and expects to be treated exactly as Croatia, which obtained the EU candidate …

The International Monetary Fund has suspended its 2011 Stand-by Agreement with Kosovo, after Pristina breached the deal by implementing pay raises. The 18-month-deal would have provided Kosovo with 87 million euros in soft loans from the IMF plus another 100 million euros from the European Commission, pledged at a 2008