12 November 2008 Belgrade – Serbian police have been checking several private business enterprises in the capital over the past week in an apparent attempt to cut off financial support to war crimes fugitives Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, a security agency official told Balkan Insight.

12 November 2008 Skopje – Greece has handed back to the UN its reply to latest set of proposals drawn up by the UN’s negotiator Matthew Nimitz aimed at finding a solution to the dispute, the Greek daily To Vima reported.

12 November 2008 Pristina – Kosovo’s Prime Minister on Wednesday maintained his position that his government cannot accept the six point plan for the future of the UN Mission in Kosovo.

12 November 2008 Pristina – The US Ambassador to Kosovo has said that the six-point plan will benefit Kosovo.

12 November 2008 Zagreb – A Croatian law firm will seek compensation from the state in the name of 30 families of Serb civilians who were tortured in the military prison Lora in Split in 1992.

12 November 2008 Belgrade - The Serbian Orthodox Church Synod has rejected Patriarch Pavle`s request to step down, unofficial sources told B92.

12 November 2008 Skopje – Redza Zulkani, the brother-in-law of Menduh Thaci, the leader of the main opposition ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia, was shot dead late Tuesday, local media reported.

GAZA, Nov. 12 – Hamas, which controls Gaza Strip, and the Islamic Jihad on Wednesday reiterated that they boycotted Egyptian efforts for an inter-Palestinian dialogue to reconcile between the main rival factions of Hamas and Fatah.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected U.S. proposals aimed at easing concerns over a missile defense system in Europe and said it would try again to resolve the row once Barack Obama is in the White House.

KABUL (Reuters) – Six people were killed and at least 40 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on government buildings in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, officials said, but a brother of the Afghan president who was in one of the offices was unhurt.