Crime

Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on July 7 his government unanimously agreed to send him to a July 11 commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, hours after the United Nations Security Council postponed debate over a resolution to mark the 20th anniversary. 

A police officer died in a shootout in the southeastern province of Siirt early on July 7, while one man was found dead inside the car that had triggered the armed clash. 

Thirty-year-old policeman Bünyamin Tor?ut died after fire was opened from inside a car that was halted due to smuggling suspicions. A man inside the car was later captured dead on a road in Siirt.

President Juan Manuel Santos has replaced Colombia's top military leaders, days after the release of a Human Rights Watch report alleging complicity by the country's top brass in extrajudicial killings of civilians.
 

The British daily Guardian writes that "new research reveals Britain and the U.S. knew six weeks before the massacre in Srebrenica that enclave would fall."

But, said the article - headlined, "How Britain and the U.S. decided to abandon Srebrenica to its fate," and authored by Florence Hartmann and Ed Vulliamy - "they decided to sacrifice it in their efforts for peace."

A new innovative approach will be implemented at Sofia International Airport in order to fight illegal taxi services. Apparently the measures have been imposed so as to fight the negative effects that illegal taxi services have had on the legally registered companies.

After initially refusing to attend the 20th anniversary commemoration of the Srebrenica massacres, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said he was now ready to go in order to help reconciliation.

A French woman was charged and remanded in custody on June 29 accused of seducing and killing an elderly man and poisoning three others on the French Riviera.

A draft Russian resolution on Bosnia strongly condemns and deplores the most serious crimes committed during the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

The draft submitted to the UN Security Council refers to crimes committed against persons of different ethnic and religious backgrounds.

A Bosnian Serb leader told the UN secretary-general that a planned Security Council resolution to mark the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres would cause more divisions.

The eight suspects were arrested on Saturday after more than 400 armed officers and special forces units, backed by army helicopters, besieged Lazarat for several days after a shootout with a suspected drug-trafficking gang.