06/10/2008

ROME, Italy -- The anti-mafia directorate in Bari has filed charges against 14 people, including some of Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic's...

03/10/2008

A Serbian regulation allowing duty-free export of goods -- including fuel -- to Kosovo for Kosovo Serbs has become a loophole for smugglers.

03/10/2008

TIRANA, Albania -- A delegation of prosecutors from the UN war crimes tribunal is expected to visit Albania shortly to investigate allegations hundre...

24/09/2008

A large-scale police operation conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina last month succeeded in breaking up a cross-border drug trafficking group.

23/09/2008

BUCHAREST, Romania -- President Traian Basescu issued a decree Monday (September 22nd) suspending Labour Minister Paul Pacuraru for alleged corruptio...

22/09/2008

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Police arrested six people Saturday (September 20th), all believed to be linked to the illegal weapons trade. After raiding six l...

08/09/2008

TIRANA, Albania -- Police in the Albanian port city of Durres arrested a Macedonian border policeman and two other people who were allegedly carrying...

01/09/2008

PODGORICA, Montenegro -- Authorities arrested notorious organised-crime boss Safet Kalic on Saturday (August 30th), local media reported. Kalic under...

31/08/2008

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- A total of 56 suspected drug dealers were arrested in a wide-scale police operation last week, according to...

25/08/2008

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Police announced on Saturday (August 23rd) the arrests of ten people suspected of smuggling a huge amount of marijuana from Monten...

24/08/2008

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- More than four tonnes of marijuana were seized in a series of operations last week, police in the south-west town of Blagoevgrad a...

21/08/2008

"We will retain offices in Pec, Gracanica and Strpce, and obviously we will be present in Mitrovica," UNMIK chief Lamberto Zannier said in Pristina on Wednesday.

21/08/2008

TIRANA, Albania -- Interior Minister Bujar Nishani requested on Wednesday (August 20th) an extension of the moratorium on motorboats along the Albani...

19/08/2008

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Police announced on Monday (August 18th) that they found more than two tonnes of cannabis around the southwest town of Blagoevgrad...

05/08/2008

TIRANA, Albania -- Police on Monday (August 4th) arrested five illegal immigrants hidden in a truck trailer at the port of Durres. They are detaining...