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Former Bosnian Serb soldiers Milosav, Marijan and Slavko Jovanovic were sentenced to 11 years in prison each for killing five Bosniak civilians, including two children, in the Cajnice area in 1992.

FIFA has fined both Kosovo’s and Croatia’s football associations for fans chanting racist insults at Serbs at a World Cup qualifying match played between the two countries in Albania.

The main organisation of Albanian judges is expected on Friday to issue its standpoint on the controversial judicial vetting law, which is considered a key step towards opening EU accession talks.

The Croatian government’s furious response to the arrest of ten Bosnian Croats on war crimes charges in Bosnia and Herzegovina was diplomatically incompetent and will not help the suspects, analysts argue.

The remnants of Kosovo's medieval code of justice still burden Kosovo's local communities, pitting families against families in an endless circle of death.

A group of Yugo-nostalgic activists said it will launch a legal challenge to senior officials over the construction of a cemetery for German soldiers killed in World War II in Montenegro.

At his first-ever meeting with families of Kosovo Serbs who went missing as a result of the war, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci pledged to address the missing persons issue during talks with Belgrade in Brussels.

Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, is in China, seeking investment for the entity’s struggling economy.

While Kosovo officials claim the World Bank has pledged to support construction of the new Kosova e Re power plant, the bank has told BIRN no such decision has been made.

Kosovo’s Prosecutorial Council said politically-motivated criticism of the war crimes indictment of guerrilla commander turned opposition party leader Fatmir Limaj is damaging to the rule of law.

Despite unconfirmed media claims that Russian spies were recently expelled from Serbia, the two countries are set to hold their second joint military exercise in less than a month.

If the new Hague-based Special Court indicts senior politicians for war crimes and political killings, it could bring down Kosovo’s governing coalition and undermine the major parties, experts suggest.

The metal-producing factory Jugohrom - a significant contributor to Macedonia’s economy - is one step away from enforced closure for failing to meet air pollution standards.

At the trial of alleged Balkan drugs boss Naser Kelmendi, a former associate revealed how the Balkan drug ring operated for years, smuggling heroin from Turkey to Bosnia and then to Europe.

Most Bulgarians back holding a referendum on changing the political system together with presidential elections on November 6 - but many also seem confused about what they are being asked to support.

The Suhareka/Suva Reka municipal assembly declared that Serb families should not return to the village of Mushtisht/Mustiste, the focus of recent protests about wartime crimes.

Pristina’s foreign ministry sent a protest note to Belgrade after the second arrest of a Kosovo Albanian in recent weeks, as Serbia released a police director who was held for over a month.

Three men have been arrested during a special police operation which recovered one of the largest amounts of counterfeit money in Bulgaria’s history.

When the Serbian interior minister wanted to scold the US for allegedly meddling in his country’s affairs, he decided to revive an old Yugoslav retort against Washington.

Relations between the two countries face a new challenge as Croatian and Bosnian Croat officials expressed concerns after ten Bosnian Croat ex-fighters were arrested for alleged war crimes against Serbs.