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BELGRADE, Serbia-The United States on Friday purchased a plot of land for its new embassy in Belgrade that was flattened by NATO bombs in 1999. A US$15 million (euro11.83 million) deal for the complex of buildings that included former Yugoslav Marshall Josip Broz Tito's residences and barracks that later housed elite military guard units, was signed between U.S. Ambassador Michael Polt and the Serbian government. The area in Belgrade's plush Dedinje district was flattened in May 1999 when the Western alliance intervened to stop former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown against separatist Kosovo Albanians. It neighbors the late Milosevic's headquarters....

PRIŠTINA -- The Humanitarian Law Center has issued a press statement codemning Agim Ceku’s behavior in the case of Selim Krasniqi. The HLC Kosovo Office finds that the public support for the convicted war criminal Krasniqi was unacceptable and damanging the basic principles of democracy. "HLC Kosovo believes that this behaviour is contrary to the principles of the rule of law and independent judiciary, which are the goals of independent Kosovo. Bearing in mind the fact that, on 10 August 2006, the International Trial Chamber pronounced Selim Krasniqi, Bedri Zymberi and Agron Krasniqi guilty of war crime, illegal detention and...

As Serbian dailz "Novostz" is reporting, new law passed in parlament ingnited large religious debate and outrage in Serbia. Problem rosed when old ID card law from 2002. is posted on disscussion in parlament. Law sazs that new ID cards containing biometrical information and chip with all essential data of holder is obligatorz in next 3 zears. large number of Christian Ortodox church members rose against it claiming that "New ID cards are even worse than yellow ribbons that Jewish people were forced to ware during WWII" as priest Mladenovich said. Church high ranking officials are convinced, aldough not official...