After an all day session, voting 83 in favor and 45 against, Croatian MPs approved the new government proposed by prime minister-designate Jadranka Kosor just after midnight last night. The move to form a new government comes after the suprise resignation of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader last week. Opposition MPs …

Albania’s Supreme Court on Monday again delayed the case against former defence minister Fatmir Mediu – indicted over a deadly blast at a munitions depot in March 2008 – after his lawyers failed to show up in court. The lawyers notified the court that they were stranded in Kukes, in …

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is due to arrive in Belgrade on Tuesday for talks with the President of Serbia, Boris Tadic, and other officials on bilateral issues, the situation in the Balkans and the Middle East crisis.