Eurasia Press & News

The Romanian Liberal Party on Tuesday submitted a motion against the two party ruling coalition demanding the annulment of a series of measures introduced by the country’s education ministry. Liberals say that measures such as cutting the number of sports classes being held at primary schools will affect the health …

Five years since it was burned and devastated in demonstrations inspired by Albanian violence against Kosovo Serbs on March 17, 2004, the 16th century Bayrakli Mosque in Belgrade still is not fully repaired. The mosque was heavily damaged by angry youths who broke all its windows and furniture and then …

Over 1,000 war veterans and policemen from various parts of Serbia protested Tuesday in Leskovac demanding the release of four policemen arrested over suspicion that they committed war crimes in Kosovo in 1999. Protesters gathered near police headquarters in Leskovac under a banner saying: ”Who’s Next”.

A 21-year old imam (Islamic priest) from the Serbian region of Sandzak, was arrested in Bosnia for drug trafficking, local media reported on Wednesday. The imam was a part of a group that was arrested in the Bosnian capital over the past week, under suspicion of being a part of …

Serbian vehicle tyre producer ”Trayal Corporation” from Krusevac plans to fire about 400 employees, the company told the local BETA news agency on Wednesday. The number of employees at the factory will decline from 2422 to 2042, adding to the economic woes being felt in this industrial part of north …

A financial aid package for Romania aimed at shoring up the country’s dwindling finances could total roughly 20 billion euros, the country’s president has warned. Speaking on television on Tuesday, President Traian Basescu said that the aid was a necessary ”safety belt” and that details of the loan package would …

Police investigators found 20 bone fragments on Monday during a dig at a site near the town of town of Cizre. Turkish police detained five people on Tuesday after finding bone fragments detectives think may be the remains of victims of extrajudicial killings in the mainly Kurdish southeast, state-run Anatolian …

The conference does not make any sense if an agreement is not achieved on the manner of the mediation for solving the border dispute. Slovenia believes that holding the intergovernmental conference on Croatian European Union accession, scheduled for March 27, does not make any sense if agreement is not achieved …

Medvedev said 1,914 under-age children had died as a result of violent attacks in 2008 and another 12,500 were missing. President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday Russia should take urgent action to protect children from violent crime and sexual abuse, in order to prevent them from joining a growing army …

The cause of the fault has yet to be established, `but the doors of the launch service tower did not open,` said Franco Bonacina of the ESA. The European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday postponed the launch of its most sophisticated Earth observation satellites to date because of a technical …