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Britain’s police have clearly stopped smiling

09 September 2010 | By Marcus Tanner

“And the policeman smiled”. I always remember the very moving title of a book I read years ago about Jewish children who escaped the horrors of Nazi Germany and got to England. 


Extra Police Patrol North Mitrovica After Clashes
13 September 2010 | Bojana Barlovac and Petrit Qollaku

Police patrols have been increased in the north Kosovo town of Mitrovica after seven people were injured amid clashes between Albanians and Kosovo Serbs following a basketball match.

Serbia's EU Candidacy Bid Set for October
14 September 2010 | Bojana Barlovac

Serbia’s application to become a candidate for European Union membership will be forwarded to the European Commission in October, the EU Council of Ministers has decided.

Karadzic: Shelling of Residential Buildings
15 September 2010 |

A United Nations Observers Mission Major who was in Sarajevo in 1993 and 1994 says the Bosnian Serb Army fired artillery projectiles, randomly targeting residential buildings, which caused a large number of victims.



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Former British PM Tony Blair during his visit in Kosovo
Former British PM Tony Blair during his visit in Kosovo
Kosovo | Serbia

Blair: How I Built Consensus for Kosovo Action locked

Pristina | 06 September 2010 | By Lawrence Marzouk

In his long-awaited memoirs, the former British prime minister reveals how he led the push for military intervention in Kosovo, because it was the “moral” decision in the face of “ethnic cleansing”.





Kosovo

Kosovars Forget The Taste of The Past

Pristina | 01 September 2010 | By Shengjyl Osmani

The cornucopia of exotic eateries springing up in Pristina, and Kosovars’ desire to embrace all things new, means that old-fashioned dishes are vanishing.

Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Albania | Kosovo | Macedonia

Mother Teresa Lauded on 100th Anniversary locked

Pristina, Skopje and Tirana | 27 August 2010 | Petrit Collaku, Sinisa-Jakov Marusic and Besar Likmeta

As Nobel Prize laureate Mother Teresa is declared a "mother for the world" on the 100th anniversary of her birth, some Balkan states continue to argue over her origins.

Rapper Kastriot Rexha
Rapper Kastriot Rexha
Kosovo

Hip Hop Becomes the Sound of Kosovo

Pristina | 29 July 2010 | By Shega A’Mula

Rap music now rules. But as Kosovars get used to independence, local rappers are trading in old themes about struggle for a more US-style culture of ‘sex, fame and money’.


Bulgaria

Youngest Mayor Puts Ageing Bulgarian Villages on Map locked

| 13 July 2010 | By Boryana Dzhambazova

Ever heard of Dolna or Gorna Sekirna? Few people had, until the mainly elderly residents of these remote hamlets caused a stir by electing a teen as their leader.


Kosovo

Freedom Festival Challenges Kosovo’s Bleak Image

Pristina | 07 July 2010 | By Laura Wolfs

With its welcoming atmosphere and mixture of foreign and local bands, the festival shows there is a lot more to this country than poverty and ethnic tension.


Bosnia and Herzegovina

Three Decades of Visions Alter Medjugorje Beyond Recognition

| 29 June 2010 | By Marcus Tanner

While the Pope’s new commission is set to finally clarify the shrine’s final status, whether anything that Rome says can stop the flow of pilgrims at this stage looks debatable.


Bulgaria

Sofia Gays Hail Success of Largest Ever Parade locked

Sofia | 28 June 2010 | By Boryana Dzhambazova

Though Orthodox Church leaders fulminated against the pride march as a ‘sinful demonstration’, numbers were twice up on last year and there was no violence.

Kosovo

Kosovo’s Autistic Children Suffer in Silence locked

Pristina | 21 June 2010 | By Nora Nimani Musa

Only six people are officially registered as autistic in Kosovo and receiving some help. Out there, another 16,000 may be suffering in isolation from the same cruel disorder.


Albania

New Movie Shines Light on Albanian Blood Feuds

Shkodra | 09 June 2010 | By Besar Likmeta

US director Joshua Marston’s upcoming drama about a family trapped in a cycle of vengeance may be fictional but is based on the all-too-real situation faced by many Albanians.




 
 

Even if you have a ‘green’ conscience, behaving according to your green principles can be a difficult thing if you live in Belgrade. In the city of around two million residents, there are just 39 on-street recycling facilities. And although glass amounts to 10 per cent of household waste, there is now nowhere to leave it for recycling.


Bulgaria’s tourist industry is expected to gain 6.5 billion lev (€3.25 billion) this year, the chairman of the Bulgarian Tourist Chamber has said.


Pristina’s Ulpiana neighbourhood, mostly comprising Yugoslav-era apartment blocks, is now home to an eye catching eight-storey building corresponding to current architectural trends and standards.



Iguana, which used to be one of the Trencherman household’s favourite haunts, has lost a little of it’s sparkle of late, with detractors pointing to a narrowing of choices on the menu, some odd combinations of ingredients and even some suggestions that the famous sticky date pudding has started to resemble a slice of cake rather than a lovingly prepared dessert.


Set in wartime Thessaloniki and centring on a Greek police officer’s complicated dilemmas and intrigues, this is a fast-paced, gripping story of secrets and betrayal.


Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, collectively The Doors, carved out an LSD fuelled niche in late 60s American Pop Culture. Director Tom DiCillo explores the mysteries, big and small, that walk hand in hand with the most notorious rock band in American history.