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The chief executive of the mine where 301 miners died in 2014 in Turkey?s deadliest industrial accident on April 16 insisted he was not a murderer and said he was still struggling to understand the causes of the tragedy.

Bosnia's state court on Thursday jailed five members of what has been called the country's most violent criminal gang, led by Zijad Turkovic, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison for series of crimes that included several murders, robberies and drug smuggling. 
 

BELGRADE - The organised crime department of the Belgrade district court has confirmed the indictment against former minister of telecommunications Jasna Matic and three of her associates suspected of illegal activities related to Serbia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA), which cost the national budget around RSD 120 million.

Goran Hadzic released, arrives in Serbia

BELGRADE -- Hague Tribunal (ICTY) indictee Goran Hadzic has been granted temporary release and arrived in Belgrade late on Wednesday.

The tribunal decided to release him so he could receive medical treatment, his lawyer Zoran Zivanovic has confirmed.

The Sofia City Court has acquitted Rosen Zhelyazkov, the sole defendant in the case for the illegal ballot papers discovered on the eve of the early elections on May 12, 2013.

Zhelyazkov, former Chief Secretary of the Council of Ministers, stood trial for failing to exercise adequate control over ballot papers.

Eight former managers from the mine where Turkey's worst industrial disaster occurred in May 2014 appeared in court April 15 on murder charges, with prosecutors demanding they spend the rest of their lives in jail.

PRISTINA - Kosovo's constitutional court on Wednesday unanimously adopted an amendment on setting up a special war crimes court.

The court established that the amendment to chapters 2 and 3 of the Kosovo constitution is acceptable as it does not diminish human rights and freedoms.

Construction works of a holiday village at campsite Yug (South) on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast will be stopped temporarily over minor flaws in the documents, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.

Human rights situation "unsatisfactory" - ombudsman

BELGRADE -- Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic has said that the human rights situation in Serbia, despite certain progress, was unsatisfactory.

Jankovic made the assessment in his 2014 report submitted to members of the Serbian national assembly.

A rural area in eastern Turkey will be excavated on April 15 to reveal bones allegedly belonging to 24 people from two families killed during the Dersim massacre in 1938.