BUCHAREST, Romania The Supreme Court decided on Friday (July 17th) to suspend the trial of former Transport Minister Miron Mitrea on corruption charges, local media reported. Mitrea is accused of having taken bribes when he was in the minister position worth almost 200,000 euros between 2000 and 2004, to appoint …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Prime Minister Nikola Spiric decided on Friday (July 17th) to dismiss Security Minister Tarik Sadovic, the government announced. Earlier this week, Bosniak Party of Democratic Action (SDA) asked for Sadovic’s replacement after he refused to step down. The party sought the minister’s removal due to …

ATHENS, Greece A small anarchist group, calling itself Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, claimed responsibility on Friday (July 17th) for a bomb attack targeting former Deputy Interior Minister Panagiotis Hinofotis, media reported. A small homemade bomb exploded on July 11th outside Hinofotis’ home in the Athens district of Paleo Faliro. The …

There is no need to make urgent and hasty decisions although Macedonia will probably have to make one more budget cut by year’s end, the new finance minister said Sunday. “Our preliminary analyses indicate that there will be a need for a re-balance in the third quarter of 2009. However, …

As the European Commission moves to adopt visa liberalization for the Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia, leaving out Albania and Bosnia, it is fair enough to criticize the EU for major political blunders and possibly Muslim ghettoization, but in the end, the Bosnian government should be severely taken to task for …

SARAJEVO Predsjedavajući disciplinskih komisija Agencije za državnu službu BiH po jednom riješenom predmetu dobijat će 300 KM, dok članovi imaju pravo na naknadu od po 200 KM. Regulisano je ovo odlukom Vijeća ministara BiH, koje je u četvrtak usvojilo set odluka o visini naknada za članstvo u komisijama i upravnim …

SARAJEVO Predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH smijenio je jučer ministra sigurnosti BiH Tarika Sadovića na zahtjev rukovodstva SDA, koja je odlazećeg ministra i nominirala na ovu funkciju, potvrdili su u Špirićevom kabinetu. Sulejman Tihić, predsjednik SDA, potvrdio je da je obaviješten o Sadovićevoj smjeni.

SARAJEVO Predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH smijenio je jučer ministra sigurnosti BiH Tarika Sadovića na zahtjev rukovodstva SDA, koja je odlazećeg ministra i nominirala na ovu funkciju, potvrdili su u Špirićevom kabinetu.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov will sue for libel a Russian rights group which has blamed him for the kidnap and murder of a prominent activist, Interfax news agency quoted Kadyrov’s lawyer as saying on Friday. Natalia Estemirova, who worked for the human rights group Memorial, was abducted in the Chechen …

MOSCOW Russian President Dmitry Medvedev discussed the issues of bilateral interaction with the President of Kazakhstan Nazarbayev and congratulated him with the victorious finish in the race of the Kazakh racing stallion.