A former Bosnian Serb army general has lost his appeal against a conviction for war crimes committed during the 43-month siege of Sarajevo. 

The Central European Initiative (CEI) summit will take place in Bucharest today and tomorrow. The gathering will bring together prime ministers and foreign ministers of the 18 member states, as well as senior representatives of international financial institutions.

The OSCE has criticized the provisional institutions in Priština saying that they are not meeting their obligations toward the returnees in Kosovo. In its report, the OSCE said that the Albanian majority in the province had taken very few concrete steps since the adoption of the strategy for reintegration of …