Belgrade – Thirteen Serbs were convicted of war crimes Thursday and sentenced to prison for the execution-style killings of some 200 Croats – one of the worst massacres of POWs during the bloody Balkan conflicts of the 1990s, AP reports. Serbia’s war crimes court judges handed the maximum 20 year …

Montenegro will provide financial aid to ailing aluminium producer KAP, under several conditions, the government said. Early in January, KAP had said it would suspend production by February without government’s support, due to severe losses from high production costs and falling metal prices on the international crisis. Local media later …

MOSCOW – Russia’s budget expenditures could grow by 600 billion rubles ($17 billion) to 9.6 trillion ($275 billion) this year, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said on Friday. He added it was only a preliminary figure and that it would be confirmed following a Cabinet session. The official said …