Serbia

Royal bones of contention

Royal bones of contention

There’s no such thing as a final resting place when it comes to royal remains

The IOC’s ticket to trouble

Olympic officials are unwilling or unable to fight the black market for Games tickets. So the coppers are waging war for them.

Independent, but a basket case

Kosovo: independent, but a basket case

The economy is dead, corruption is rampant, and Serbia remains hostile

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Ratko Mladic is finally captured

While the arrest of Mladic closes a chapter in Serbian history, extremist strongholds still remains

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Ratko Mladic has been battling cancer, say lawyers

Former Bosnian Serb commander stands accused of genocide, crimes against humanity

Ratko Mladic captured in Serbia

Former army general accused in massacre of 7,500 at Srebrenica

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Newsmakers

Emma Watson’s really big moment, the Dog Whisperer’s disappointing day, Pamela Anderson’s good deed’s too dirty

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Dear diary: Ratko Mladic here . . .

The fugitive: His Bosnian war writings have been turned over to the court in The Hague

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Closing in on the ‘Butcher of Srebrenica’

Serbian police surround the family apartment of Ratko Mladic

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Were Kosovo patients slain for organs?

Forty inmates disappeared from the Stimlje mental asylum in 2001

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Media funnies for a slow news day, Vol. I

My old pal Sean, a Canadian expatriate in Budapest, logged onto CNN this morning to find Serb ultra-nationalists inexplicably venting their fury on the streets of Hungary’s beautiful capital city. Had they swum up the Danube under cover of night? Had Balkan politics, against all odds, just become even more complex? Thankfully, no—the riot was in Belgrade, just where it should have been. It was simply an editing-room mixup, as Sean documents for us below: