DNA profiling

The Missing Persons Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina said that a collective funeral will be held at Vedro Polje stadium in the village of Hambarine near Prijedor on July 20, and the victims' bodies will then be buried at locations chosen by their families.

In the last 20 years, governments in the Western Balkans have been able to account for more than 70 per cent of the 40,000 people who were missing at the end of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Almost 28,000 have been accounted for, which is an unprecedented achievement following a large-scale conflict anywhere in the world.

A Turkish man who opened his supposed biological father's grave has found the remains of a woman, according to DNA results cited by local media. 

The head of the Greek police's crime lab is calling on the relatives of missing people from the east Attica wildfires to provide DNA samples so that forensic investigators can complete the process of identifying dozens of victims.

The five-member Athens Appeals Court Monday rejected an appeal by a 29-year-old PhD student who was convicted last month of being a member of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, an urban guerrilla group known for carrying out a series of letter bomb attacks.

A committee uncovering the fate of hundreds of missing Greek and Turkish Cypriots said Saturday it's examining whether past DNA tests on unearthed remains were incorrect, resulting in individuals being misidentified.

Turkish scientist Assoc. Prof. Huseyin Onay from Ege University's Faculty of Medicine, achieved to decrease the time of DNA profiling test to 34 minutes with a kit he developed, which is normally done in 6 hours. 

BELGRADE - Traces of at least three people have been found on the weapons cache found over the weekend near PM Aleksandar Vucic's family home in a forest in suburban Belgrade, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Monday following a DNA analysis of a hand-held rocket launcher, hand grenades and an ammunition package.

DNA traces of at least three people have been found on the weapons cache found over the weekend near PM Aleksandar Vucic's family home in suburban Belgrade.

Dragan Mijovic, deputy chief of the Serbian police's National Crime Centre, said the police on Monday would receive the results of DNA analysis of the arms stash discovered near Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's family home but the results will not be made public.