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Belgrade Ended Mitrovica Resistance

Serbia agreed to Mitrovica accord in order to bolster its prospects of joining international organisations.

Serb Secrets Aid UN in Iraq

US army visit gathers vital intelligence on Belgrade's long association with Baghdad.

Macedonia: Albanian Students in Poisoning Scare

Parents vow to keep their children away from two Kumanovo schools after hundreds of pupils inexplicably fall ill.

New Balkan Smuggling Trade

Illegal immigrants flock to Bosnia in the hope of being smuggled into Western Europe.

Bridge of Hope

Hopes of reconciliation receive a boost as Mostar's Old Bridge rises from the rubble of the Bosnian war

Bosnian Election Blow

Comment: Bosnia's future looks grim following the nationalists' general election triumph.

Caspian Shoreline Plundered

Illegal sand extraction on Azerbaijan’s Apsheron coast is a profitable business for boomtown Baku’s building industry.

Sandzak Police Failing to Tackle Heroin Scourge

Local police seem more concerned with directing the traffic than tackling the city’s spiralling drug problem.

Romania Squanders Tourism Potential

Despite the country’s promise as a holiday destination, it still fails to compete with its neighbours.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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