former head of MI6 confirmed yesterday that a proposal to assassinate a senior Balkan politician was briefly considered within the Secret Intelligence Service during the early 1990s, but rejected. Sir Richard Dearlove’s admission came as he gave evidence at the inquests at the high court into the deaths of Princess Diana and her companion Dodi […]
Kosovo Now Independent, Asks World To Recognize Its Statehood
The nations of Serbia and Russia have refused to acknowledge Kosovo’s independence for their own individual reasons. Serbia’s reason is that before Kosovo declared independence, it was part of the country. In Russia’s case, it is thinking about Georgia and its breakaway states. After the separatist war between the forces of Kosovo and Serbia which […]
EU’s Favoured Candidate Wins Serbia Poll
Serbia faces a bruising battle this morning over how to react to the looming secession of its southern province of Kosovo after President Boris Tadic, a pro-western liberal, won a renewed five-year term in a close election last night. Tadic’s narrow victory, by a projected 2.6 percentage points or 100,000 votes, over the extreme nationalist […]
‘Undertaker’ Close to Power in Serbia
A former cemeteries manager known as the undertaker stands his best chance of becoming head of state when Serbia votes tomorrow in a fateful presidential election. To his many critics, the extreme nationalist Tomislav Nikolic will be digging Serbia’s grave if he repeats his first-round victory, plunging the pivotal Balkan country into renewed isolation, and […]
The Pride and Passion of a Manhunter
She is compact, with a shock of white hair and darting eyes that give more than a hint of the passions within the wrapping of the practice of law and its dry lexicon. Carla Del Ponte, the world’s most powerful criminal lawyer, has been chief prosecutor of the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia […]
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