![]() Croatian police secure the site of a car bomb explosion Thursday. Prime Minister Ivo Sanader called an extraordinary meeting of the Croatian Security Council to discuss the blast, which killed both the owner and marketing director of a leading newspaper. [Getty Images] |
26/10/2008
24/10/2008

Ivo Pukanic, the owner of a leading Croatian political weekly, and his newspaper's marketing director, Niko Franjic, were killed by a car bomb in Zagreb on Thursday, the latest in a series of violent incidents in the country.
24/10/2008

Romanians once took the quality of their school system for granted. No longer.
24/10/2008

Kosovo is projected to join IMF and the World Bank in 2009. Also in business news: Swedish retailer IKEA wants to open five retail outlets and possibly a factory in Serbia, while annual inflation in Montenegro reached 8.8% in September.
20/10/2008

The European Commission approved a spending plan for pre-accession assistance worth some 4.5 billion euros to be provided to seven Western Balkan countries and Turkey through 2010.