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Recognise ‘Storm’ War Victims, NGOs tell Serbia, Croatia
Human rights groups in Serbia and Croatia have called on authorities in both countries to do more to recognise and aid victims of a 1995 Croatian military operation that ended the country's war against rebel Serbs.
Croatia on Monday marked the 24th anniversary of Operation Storm, a military blitz that quashed a breakaway Serb statelet but put to flight almost 200,000 Serb civilians.
Serbian Perpetrator of Kosovo Massacre Released Early
Another former member of a notorious Serbian paramilitary group has been released early from prison by a court in Belgrade having spent 12 years of a 15-year sentence for war crimes behind bars.
Miodrag Solaja fought with a unit known as the Scorpions during the 1998-99 war in Serbia's then southern province, Kosovo.
The International Bansko Jazz Festival Starts Today
For the twenty-second year in a row, the Bansko resort in Pirin Mountain, southwestern Bulgaria, has welcomed foreign and Bulgarian jazz and pop musicians and singers.
RHMZ warns to the upcoming heatwave, the temperature will rise to 38 degrees Celsius
As told in a statement, tomorrow and the following days will be very warm, with daily highs ranging from 34 to 38 degrees. Thursday and Friday will be more bearable in the north and west of the country, as there will be more clouds.
Serbia opens honorary consulate in Turkey
Serbia on Aug. 5 opened an honorary consulate in northwestern Turkey to facilitate its citizens.
Bulgaria Has Improved its Position in 16 of the 26 World Economic Rankings
Bulgaria has improved its position in 16 of the 26 world economic rankings. This is indicated by the data from the Bulgaria in Figures survey of the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. However, in 8 charts we have a deterioration in terms of key indicators. Where we have progress and what we have not achieved - the data is summarized by Victoria Boyadzhieva from BNT.
Hungary’s Family Plan Seeks to ‘Save the Nation’
Katalin Kevehazi, President of the Budapest-based JOL-LET (Well-Being) Foundation and a prominent expert on women in the labour market, said the plan's support for traditional nuclear families has a political dimension beyond fertility rates.
Serbia’s military chief: "We have Russian support for the Kosovo challenges"
He stated that we have Russia's military support for the challenges ahead of us in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija.
Croatian Schoolbooks Teach ‘One-Sided History’ of Wartime Victory
On August 5, Croatia marks its Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian Defenders with an annual celebration in the southern town of Knin.
Why Trump’s Role Model Is Hungary’s Viktor Orban
Trump is not using such measures to try to make America great; like his role model, he is trying to manufacture an immigration-related crisis to help him establish an autocracy.
And although Trump's efforts in this regard are less far advanced than Orban's nine-year-old project in Hungary, he has made more progress than most Americans realise.
Serbia women's national volleyball team got the ticket to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics
Reigning World and European Champion Serbia have won in Wroclaw defeating a host Poland in four sets - 21:25, 25:23, 25:16, 25:23.
Serbia hasn't showed its best performance, but still managed to triumph over Poland, advancing to the women's volleyball tournament in Japan.
Vucic in Krusedol: You got rid of the Serbs - does this make you happy or successful?
"The Serbs have left and it caused tremendous grief and sorrow in the heart of every single Serb. Is Croatia today happier, more successful or wealthier because of it? I have to disappoint you, all of you who glorify and rejoice in the tears of Serbia - the Serbs are not gone. Serbia hadn't vanished", said Vucic from Krusedol.
Croats, Serbs Come Together to Remember ‘Storm’ Victims
With flags hoisted on homes and public buildings, and a well-rehearsed official ceremony, Croatia is readying to celebrate the 24th anniversary of a military offensive that snuffed out a rebel Serb statelet and ended Croatia's 1991-95 war of independence from socialist Yugoslavia.
Germany: It's absurd to condition future dialogue with Serbia's recognition of Kosovo
Berlin also finds unacceptable the conditions that Kosovo Government set, he added.
"It is absurd to request from Serbia to recognize Kosovo as a precondition for dialogue resumption", Hellbach noted for the Pristina based daily Koha ditore.
"Haradinaj's connections should not be underestimated"
Alim Hamza, who is under the surveillance of German authorities for his Islam extremist standpoints, was among delegates, while the expert for security issues Irfan Peci considers that the danger of Haradinaj's contacts with Salafi movement with the goal of establishing "Greater Albania" should not be underestimated.