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Albanian defence minister in Washington urges the US to establish military bases on its territory to counter Russian and other influences in the region.

Prosecutors charged three people with fraud and falsifying documents to gain Kosovo Liberation Army war veteran status, which gives access to pension payments.

In its latest report on former Yugoslav states, the European Commission warns about setbacks and standstills in the prosecution of war crimes and delays in access to justice for victims of the 1990s wars.

A former TV news anchor in 1989 has been charged with crimes against humanity for spreading disinformation during the anti-communist uprising that resulted in deaths. 

A Belgrade-based NGO staged a protest in defence of an MP who called for the removal of Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj from Serbia's parliament because of his recent war crimes conviction.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic was the wartime protégé of ultranationalist politician Vojislav Seselj, so it’s no surprise that he has said nothing about his former leader’s conviction for crimes against humanity.

The mayor of Bihac in the north-west of Bosnia, near the border with EU member Croatia, is appealing for help after the number of migrants passing through the area increased.

Nebojsa Medojevic, one of Montenegro’s opposition leaders, is going on trial for alleged money-laundering linked to the financing of the pro-Russian Democratic Front alliance during the October 2016 elections.

Female survivors from a village where 241 ethnic Albanians were killed in 1999 said the new Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers should punish the guilty, whatever their ethnicity - but Serbs must not escape justice.

The European Commission’s enlargement report for 2017, published on Tuesday, recommends that EU accession talks should begin with Albania and Macedonia.

Former Bosnian Army and Croatian Defence Council troops rallied in Sarajevo, asking MPs to respond to their demands for unemployment benefits and a proper register of those who fought in the 1992-95 war.

An ex-member of the Red Berets told the trial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that members of the unit killed Bosniak civilians in the town of Bosanski Samac in 1992.

The State Department in Washington said that Tom Doshi, a wealthy and controversial Albanian MP, has been barred from entering the US for alleged involvement in “significant corruption”.

Former Territorial Defence commander Nehru Ganic was charged with having command responsibility for an attack on the village of Cemerno in 1992 in which 30 Serbs were killed, some by being mutilated.

Romanian military prosecutors indicted former president Ion Iliescu for crimes against humanity during the 1989 revolution that left over 1,000 dead and 2,500 wounded.

While Russia is ranked as the fifth largest investor in Bosnia, some of these investments are running up serious losses, the latest data show.

A Serbian website, Juzne vesti, has acused the country's tax authority of deliberately subjecting it to prolonged and undue financial inspections because of its critical reporting.

After a tight victory in the presidential race in Podgorica, Montenegro's leader, Milo Djukanovic, faces yet another test in the city’s local elections on May 27.

A Croatian court ruled that the state must pay 8,000 euros in damages to Pero Dragojevic, a Serb civilian tortured by a special police unit called the ‘Wolves’ in the town of Sisak in August 1991.

The well known Albanian entrepreneur Samir Mane says he will soon turn Skopje’s old and worn-out trade fair into a revitalised and expanded residential, business and shopping venue.