January, 2013

• 29 January

  Thousands in Kosovo Protest Decani Ruling

  Some 2,000 locals living near the famous Serbian Orthodox monastery in western Kosovo protested against a court decision which they said unfairly favoured the monastery.Some 2,000 locals living near the famous Serbian Orthodox monastery in western Kosovo protested against a court decision which they said unfairly favoured the monastery.Thousands of …

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• 29 January

  French President says military operation will be a success

  The French Defense Minister has announced that city of Timbuktu, city of Gao and the area in between are now under control of French troops. These cities were under Islamist control for almost one year. In a news conference on Monday, France President Francois Hollande said: “We are winning in …

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• 28 January

  Yugoslav Army General Admits Kosovo War Crimes

  Yugoslav Army general Dragoljub Ojdanic confessed that he committed war crimes against Kosovo Albanians in the late 1990s and withdrew his appeal against his Hague conviction.“I fully accept all of the findings made in the judgment [against me]. All that remains is for me to serve out my sentence,” said …

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• 28 January

  Macedonia, Serbia to Hold Joint Government Session

  The two governments will hold their first-ever joint meeting in Belgrade in May in an attempt to boost cooperation and economic ties.Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic told a press conference in Skopje on Monday that the planned joint government session would help push forward …

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• 28 January

  Albanian Parties Trade Jibes Ahead of Elections

  Albania’s Socialists accused the ruling Democrats of planning to rig the June 23 polls while the governing party claimed the opposition was trying to spark another crisis.As the political environment heated up ahead of the parliamentary elections, Socialist Party leader Edi Rama said the government was planning to rig the …

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• 28 January

  Bosniaks Call for Global Srebrenica Genocide Day

  The World Bosniak Forum has asked the UN secretary general to commemorate the wartime massacres by declaring July 11 International Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day.The United Nations should officially mark the worst killings of the Bosnian conflict, said Mustafa Ceric, president of the World Bosniak Forum, in a letter sent to …

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• 28 January

  Bulgarian Nuclear Power Plant Referendum Flops

  Bulgarians voted in favour of building a new nuclear power station but the referendum failed to achieve a high enough turnout to make it valid.The country’s first referendum of the post-communist era is expected to be declared invalid after a mere 21 per cent of eligible voters turned out on …

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• 28 January

  Montenegro Trade Unions Protest Over Crisis Tax

  Union members rallied in front of the Montenegrin parliament on Monday against government plans to raise income tax to tackle a growing budget deficit.The unions said the plan to bring in higher taxes in order to help plug the hole in Montenegro’s budget was unfair to the poor and called …

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• 28 January

  Croatia Arrests Six Over Zagreb Explosion

  Police have detained six men for causing a minor explosion in the main square of the Croatian capital, but said their motive was not political.The capital’s police commander Goran Burusic told a press conference on Sunday that the accused “agreed in December last year that they would detonate an explosive …

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• 28 January

  Bosnian Town Scraps ‘Tax on Sunshine’

  Local authorities in Tuzla in north-east Bosnia are to cancel a law which forces solar energy generators to pay them to use the sun as a power source.Tuzla’s cantonal government said this week that it would scrap the legislation, which decreed that people using solar panels to generate electricity for …

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