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BELGRADE, Serbia, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A Belgrade court Monday sentenced three men to 30 years in prison for killing Serbia's warlord Zeljko Raznatovic. One of the three was in a courtroom of the Belgrade District Court and two men, who are not in custody, did not show up to hear the verdict and sentences, the Serbian news agency Beta reported. However, the two delivered closing speeches Thursday at the end of the trial that lasted more than six years. Presiding Judge Milenko Cvijovic sentenced five other accomplices to a total of 30 years in prison for abetting the killing...

Podgorica, Montenegro: IT WAS a Balkan love feast!" said James Lyon, regional expert for the International Crisis Group, about Montenegro's independence celebration beginning on July 12. In a notoriously fractious part of the world, the festivities drew Slovenes, Croats, Macedonians, Albanians, and even some Serb politicians, as the Montenegrins breathed an enormous sigh of relief at their divorce from the Belgrade regime. Montenegro has fewer than 700,000 people, a tormented history, and plenty of challenges. But it also has magnificent assets: beautiful mountains and beaches, and basic amity between its Slav Orthodox majority and its Muslim Slav and Albanian minorities....

Explosive materials were found in the neighborhood of the Srebrenica monument prior to the 10th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the Bosnian massacre that occurred in 1995. Police official Radovan Pejic said Tuesday that police found explosive substances in two different locations close to the Potocari monument, which is in the neighborhood of the Srebrenica monument, early morning hours of yesterday. A commemoration ceremony will be held in the monument to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on July 11. As the Serbian pro-Europe reformist President Boris Tadic will be the first Serbian president to participate in the ceremonies,...