VATICAN CITY – Serbia took its campaign against Kosovo’s independence to the Vatican on Thursday when its ambassador told Pope Benedict that “moral principles” alone showed it was an injustice.

BELGRADE – When Serbs rally against Kosovo’s independence on Thursday, it may look like Serbia has gone back to the virulent nationalism that stoked war in the 1990s under the leadership of the late Slobodan Milosevic.

AMSTERDAM – The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague will appoint four more judges to increase the number of trials it can hold and help it wrap up its work by 2010, the court said on Thursday.