Tim Judah
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False start in media race to break the arrest of the Bosnian Serb fugitive.
Ravaged by mujahedin rockets and neglected by the Taleban, Kabul Zoo - once one of the capital's top attractions - is a shadow of its former self.
Serbian doomsayers ignore positive developments across the region.
Human rights activists in Serbia have been horrified by the opening proceedings of the Milosevic trial in The Hague. Is it all going dreadfully wrong?
Everyone, except the Albanians, has tried to avoid it, but now Kosovo's long-term future is at last being discussed.
Will future historians note that this was the year that Serbia finally escaped the clutch of the Vidovdan curse?
Kosovo's beleaguered Serbian communities see light at the end of the tunnel
After a decade of smuggling, looting and murder, many of Serbia's gangsters are believed to be thinking about "going legit"
Civilians in Northern Alliance-held territory express mixed feelings over the Afghan conflict, as opposition troops prepare to advance on Taleban positions.
The wholesale destruction of Afghanistan's cultural heritage has gone virtually unnoticed.