Middle East

Kosovars Shrug Off Blame for March Riots

Wave of arrests for violence elicits hostility from most local people.

21 Feb 05

Unable to afford hospital treatment, impoverished villagers are turning to local magicians for cures.

21 Feb 05

European institutions to start spending serious money to defend Serbia’s borders, seen as a bridgehead for illegal immigrants.

21 Feb 05

Poverty driving young men to take dangerous, highly-paid work in Iraq.

21 Feb 05

Shipping accident off Albanian coast does further damage to country’s tourism industry.

21 Feb 05

Economic collapse in Novi Pazar threatens to expose region’s simmering social and ethnic tensions.

21 Feb 05

Voters disillusioned with nationalist hardliners give them a wake up call.

21 Feb 05

Foreign business will think twice about coming to Bucharest until country cleans up its act.

21 Feb 05

Bribery and corruption appear routine among officials on what may soon be the gateway to the European Union.

21 Feb 05

An Afghan is cycling from Nangarhar to New York to tell the world it isn’t doing enough about his country.

21 Feb 05

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