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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
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Alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk is in jail in Munich, facing charges of being an accessory to the deaths of 29,000 Jews in World War II.
The frail 89-year-old arrived in Germany on Tuesday morning after being deported from the US. |
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
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Bryan Steinhauer’s family, unhappy with the USD 1mn paid to them by Serbia, will be filing additional charges against Miladin Kovačević, says a Belgrade daily.
Shortly after the payment from Belgrade, the family filed new claims in New York for damages of a material and non-material nature not only for Bryan Steinhauer himself, the victim of Kovačević’s alleged assault, but also for his parents Richard and Marlene. |
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
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Mr Voronin, of the ruling Communist Party, is due to step down as president as he has served the maximum two terms.
He called for reconciliation with opposition parties, after bitter divisions over the recent parliamentary election erupted into street violence. |
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
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Sri Lankan government forces have shelled a hospital inside the conflict zone killing at least 49 people, Tamil Tiger rebel and hospital sources say.
The rebels said the makeshift hospital in Mullivaikal was hit early in the morning, but a government spokesman denied knowledge of the incident. |
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
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Pope Benedict XVI has been visiting sites in Jerusalem holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians on the second day of his visit to the Holy Land.
He visited the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, becoming the first pontiff to see the site, and then the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest places. |
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
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A third of the world's population could be infected with swine flu, expert projections suggest.
Researchers say swine flu has "full pandemic potential", spreading readily between people and is likely to go global in the next six to nine months. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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A US soldier has shot dead five of his colleagues at a base in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the Pentagon says.
Two other people were hurt in the shooting and an investigation has begun, a Pentagon official said. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Pope Benedict XVI has said the suffering of Holocaust victims must never be denied as he visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
"May the names of these victims never perish. May their suffering never be denied, belittled or forgotten," he said in the midst of survivors. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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The United Nations has described the situation in northern Sri Lanka as a "bloodbath" after reports of heavy civilian casualties at the weekend.
UN spokesman in Colombo Gordon Weiss said more than 100 children died during the "large-scale killing of civilians". |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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BELGRADE -- President Boris Tadić said in talks with Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz that Serbia will continue to fully cooperate with the Hague Tribunal.
“Tadić reminded that Serbia has extradited 44 indictees for war crimes and stated that our country is intensively working on locating the remaining indictees,” the President’s press office stated. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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BELGRADE -- The government has signed a loan agreement with the European Investment Ban (EIB) worth EUR 250mn, for small and medium-sized enterprises.
The agreement includes the founding and activities of the bank's regional office in Serbia. Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Božidar Đelić signed this agreement with EIB Vice-President Dario Scannapieco. |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković announced that there will be investments made to technological development in Serbia.
“Serbia cannot allow a new brain drain,” Cvetković said at the opening of an IT conference organized by Serbia's leading retailer in the sector, ComTrade. |
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Sunday, 10 May 2009 |
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SAINT GALLEN -- President Boris Tadić says "some EU countries are not confident that Serbia has the will to cooperate with the Hague Tribunal".
This - continued the president, who was on a visit to Switzerland - despite the fact Belgrade has already extradited 44 indictees to the court. |
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Sunday, 10 May 2009 |
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KRAGUJEVAC -- Workers from a Kragujevac-based plant, who have spent 18 days on a hunger strike, last night reached a deal with the factory owners.
The workers decided to accept an agreement – brokered by the ministries of labor and economy – with Partizan tanning factory managing board chairman Jovan Aleksić. |
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Sunday, 10 May 2009 |
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BELGRADE -- Ruling Democratic Party (DS) Vice-President Dušan Petrović says that parliamentary elections will not be called in the foreseeable future.
Petrović told Belgrade daily Blic that his party "won't be making any unreasonable decisions that would drag the country into an election process". |
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Sunday, 10 May 2009 |
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PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo police, KPS, Director Sermet Ahmeti has called on all Serb policemen who were suspended to return to their duties.
Ahmeti said that he had sent a letter to every Serb who left "after the independence proclamation", demanding that they return to police and announcing that their "privileges" would end unless they did so.
"I wish to remind you that we are determined and under obligation to respect the deadlines from the ministry of the interior's decision, which means that after these deadlines have expired we will be forced to terminate your employment," the letter says. |
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Sunday, 10 May 2009 |
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ZAGREB -- According to Croatian police, Branimir Glavaš is currently in the territory of the Muslim-Croat Federation entity in Bosnia.
A statement from Croatia's MUP late on Saturday also said that "there is no legal basis to arrest Glavaš", and reminds that there was also "no legal basis to limit his movement", since he is a member of the Croatian parliament and enjoys appropriate immunity. |
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