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ICTY war crimes court acquits Serbian ultra-nationalist Šešelj

March 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Croatia, Serbia

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on March 31 2016 acquitted Vojislav Šešelj, president of the Serbian

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Macedonia boosts security measures over refugee crisis

March 28, 2016March 30, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Macedonia, Serbia

Security authorities in Macedonia have boosted security measures in the northern area of the country on the border with Serbia.

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Europe 

ICTY jails Karadžić for 40 years for genocide, war crimes in Bosnia

March 24, 2016March 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has found Radovan Karadžić criminally responsible for genocide and war crimes in

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Europe 

Europe migrant crisis: Bulgarian military may guard the border with Serbia

March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Serbia

Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev and his Serbian counterpart Zoran Djordjevic have held talks in Nis on steps against a

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Karadzic verdict expected to be ‘historic’, German judge says

March 24, 2016 Deutsche Welle Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

The trial of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian banker Vassilev seeking Serbian citizenship to avoid extradition – report

March 16, 2016March 17, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair, Serbia

The former majority shareholder in Bulgaria’s insolvent Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), Tsvetan Vassilev, has filed an application to receive Serbian

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Europe 

Croatian PM ‘unfair’ with Prince Charles, Serbian PM Vucic says

March 15, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Croatia, Serbia

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was “angered” by his Croatian counterpart’s decision to show 1990s war memorabilia to the Prince

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Refugees on Serbia – Macedonia border isolated in improvised tents in dire conditions

March 14, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Macedonia, Serbia

Hundreds of refugees continue to stay for days under the snow and rain and in open sky in the camp

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Europe 

Serb nationalist defies court, burns EU, Nato flags

March 11, 2016 VOANews Serbia

Serbian ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj set fire to European Union and NATO flags outside a Belgrade court Thursday, insisting he would

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