Military technology

A woman found a hand grenade in a house in Sofia's Strelbishte residential district, reports the Interior Ministry.

She notified the police who sealed off the area.

This is the second case in two days of such discovery in Sofia. On Wednesday a woman found a hand grenade at her apartment door in a residential building in the Mladost district.

Child killed in hunting shotgun accident

BELGRADE -- An 8-year-old girl is dead after she was shot from a hunting rifle in her home in the Belgrade suburb of Resnik.

Some reports suggest the authorities suspect that her 4-year-old brother accidentally pulled the trigger.

A laser weapon deployed aboard the USS Ponce in the Gulf has performed beyond expectations in four months of operational testing, the chief of Navy research said on Dec. 10, lifting hopes for a new U.S. defense against cheap anti-ship arms.
   

Athens was assessing the damage Sunday after a night of protests that degenerated into violence on the sixth anniversary of the police killing of a teenager.

A total of 296 people were detained during the night, a police source said, while 43 suspected of involvement in the rioting in the Greek capital were due to go before prosecutors.

Attacks on Serb-owned businesses in Kosovo

KOSOVO POLJE -- Three Molotov cocktails have been thrown at two establishments in Kosovo Polje and sprayed anti-Serb graffiti on the building where the businesses are located.

The attackers are unknown, local journalist Zoran Babović has told Tanjug.

Ballistic tests have confirmed that a Kalashnikov assault rifle seized at a raid on a property in Athens on October 1 was not used in the December 30, 2013, assault on the German ambassador's residence in Halandri, northern Athens.

The family of an army mine-clearer who was killed while trying to disarm a landmine in Evros, northern Greece, in 1998, has been granted 350,000 euros in compensation.

A 60-year-old man has been arrested in Edessa, in northern Greece, after police say they raided and confiscated dozens of guns and ammunition found at his home. Investigators say the man, whose name has not been made public, had six assault rifles with three cartridges, five handguns with six cartridges, one revolver and more than 1,800 rounds. He is facing a list of weapons charges.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament adopted on Wednesday a law on weapons import and export and ratified four international agreements.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament continued its work on Tuesday, debating amendments to a bill on the import and export of arms and military equipment.

In the reasoning behind the proposal, the Serbian government noted that the law is aimed at establishing control of the export and import of arms and military equipment.