Since Wednesday, the New York Times reports, more than 17,000 refugees have entered Croatia, having been blocked from entering Hungary and sent on from Serbia. Now, as Croatia closes its borders with Slovenia, they are stranded there.
On Saturday, crowds chased Serbian prime minister Aleksandar Vucic away from a memorial service at a graveyard in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where tens of thousands of people had gathered to mark the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre.
United States immigration officials are seeking to deport at least 150 Bosnians who they believe participated in war crimes and "ethnic cleansing" during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, the New York Times reports.
A woman is evacuated from her home in Obrenovac, a town 18 miles southwest of Belgrade, Serbia, on Friday. Serbian authorities are considering full evacuation of Obrenovac, inhabited by roughly 25,000 people, as the local rivers have flooded most of the town's residential areas. Image via Marko Drobnjakovic/AP.
They may be a little late, but boy, do they have heart.
Eight days after I buried my mother, I learned that she was considered indigent in the state of Colorado. This, above all else, broke my heart. Somehow, the knowledge that my mother was officially poor erased all the progress weād made in the second half of her lifeāpoofājust like that. There we were again, in theā¦
For those interested in a distraction from Miley and / or shutdown-related news, this video posted by the AP should do it. Sometimes bleating baby animals make it all better. According to the video's description:
A 60-year-old gunman engaged in a shooting rampage in his Serbian village early this morning, killing 13 people before killing himself. His son, his wife, and a two-year-old child were among those murdered by the man, identified as Ljubisa Bogdanovic. This is the first mass murder in Serbia in six years; in the last,ā¦
While discussing Amy Winehouse's recent disaster concert in Belgrade on her E! public access talk show, comedian Chelsea Handler, and her panelists, said some offensive things about Serbia and its people, and those people are now angry.
A Serbian Interior Ministry official told Reuters today that a man bearing "some physical features" of Ratko MladiÄ ā the former Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army and noted war criminal ā has been arrested, pending a DNA test.
The first gay pride parade in Belgrade, Serbia since 2001 was the site of violent clashes between police and anti-gay protestors, who set fire to a building and reportedly chanted "death to homosexuals" and "the hunt has begun."
The southern Serbian town of Leskovac attempted to make the world's biggest hamburger: their burger weighed 112 pounds, with a 5.9-foot diameter. Unfortunately, that's nothing compared to the current world-record holder: a 178-pound Australian burger.
The girls who were videotaped laughing and looting during a Belgrade riot now tell Serbian TV that they "came to Belgrade to defend Kosovo" and not to get free Adidas. "We will bear the consequences if we have to," they said, before complaining that they shouldn't be arrested.
In the middle of a political riot in Belgrade, two young Serbian women went looting, looking just like a couple of Mardi Gras sorority girls except for all the stealing of food, shoes and coats from stores. It's so much more aggravating to see them carting off all this stuff than just some regular poor, acting likeā¦
