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In a version of a report to be released next Tuesday, Kosovo UN Governor Soren Jessen-Petersen indicates "significant progress" in security and in the area of minority rights under the Kosovo Standards Implementation Plan . Under the...

Hearings began Thursday in a civil suit filed against the Dutch government by two families of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The families claim that the Dutch government should be held responsible because of Dutch peacekeepers'...

Leading Friday's international brief, Togolese Interior Minister Francois Esso Boko told reporters late Thursday night that he was recommending that what he called the "suicidal electoral process" - the presidential election scheduled for Sunday - be postponed, warning that...

Pushing for Serbian membership in the European Union by 2010, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus said Monday that Serbia has issued arrest warrants for suspects indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [official...

Topping Tuesday's international brief, leaders from the Zimbabwean opposition party Movement for Democratic Change have filed the first of nearly a dozen legal challenges to the validity of the March 31 elections in Zimbabwe . MDC...

Former Serbian police general Sreten Lukic was delivered Monday to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. It is as yet unclear whether he surrendered, or was arrested and forcibly transferred. Eyewitnesses reported...

Former Serbian prime minister Zoran Zivkovic said Friday that in 2003 CIA agents aided Serbian police in dozens of unsuccessful attempts to capture former commander General Ratko Mladic . Mladic is accused of atrocities and...

Gojko Jankovic, a Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader, was transferred to the detention facility for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Monday after surrendering to Serbian authorities over the weekend. Jankovic is accused of encouraging his...

Momcilo Perisic, a former general and chief of staff of the Yugoslav army under Slobodan Milosevic and later a Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia who pressed for co-operation with international war crimes prosecutors , has...

In Friday's international brief, the African Union announced the suspension of Togo's membership in the continental organization following a meeting of the AU Peace and Security Council . The AU also called for wider sanctions against...