Bulgarian authorities on Friday incinerated 638 kg of illicit drugs seized at border checkpoints and during police raids in recent years, the customs agency said in a statement.

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Given that eyewitnesses reported hearing no shots, the pistol used to put two bullets into the head of Ivana Hodak probably was fitted with a silencer.

Two Croatian ministers have been fired in response to the latest in a series of brutal murders.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal set up after the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today upheld a 35-year jail sentence of a former political leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia who was convicted for his role ...