The Balkan Chronicle

Italian media state with certainty Montenegro is completely controlled by companies connected to the Rothschild family, which financed the project for Montenegro independence, reports local daily "Dan".

Turkish sources say that Syria has turned its Russian-made SCUD missiles towards Turkey, Press TV reports.

The sources said that the missiles have been deployed in Syria's Kamisili and Ayn Diwar regions, Press TV's Ankara correspondent reported on Saturday.

The two regions are close to the borders of Turkey and Iraq.

Albania has registered 65 new HIV/AIDS cases in the past ten months, the Public Health Institute has confirmed.

The number is the largest ever registered for a 10-month period of a year, MIA reports from Tirana.

" alt="Turkish_warplanes" src="/images/stories/special_interes/other_interes/Turkish_warplanes.jpg" width="150" height="150" />Turkish warplanes have targeted alleged bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist group in Iraq's northern Kurdish region, wounding at least one civilian, Kurdish officials say.

The Sulaimaniyah and Arbil provinces were raided by the Turkish fighter jets on Tuesday night, AFP reported.

Hassan Abdullah, the mayor of the Qalat Dizah area in Sulaimaniyah, said the 20-year-old civilian, Ismail Baz Hamed, was wounded during the bombing.

Turkish media say the buses were attacked after they asked for directions at a checkpoint. The convoy later crossed into Turkey where the wounded were treated at a hospital near the border. The gunmen's affiliation was not clear.

Turkey's foreign ministry confirmed that an attack took place in Syria, but did not elaborate.

November 19, 2011: The Syrian National Council (SNC), an umbrella organization that claims to represent many Syrian rebel groups, is asking for international intervention in Syria. International is a euphemism for Turkey and NATO. The Turkish government has hardened its demands for change in Syria but so far has not committed to action beyond supporting calls for sanctions on the Assad regime. Turkey has reinforced its military units along the Turkey-Syria border, but that isn't exactly news.

Hungary was the latest European country on Saturday to confirm higher than usual levels of radioactivity in the air, although like others it maintained that this did not pose any health risks.

"In Hungary, a higher-than-usual concentration of iodine-131 particles was registered in Budapest and Miskolc (in the northeast)," Geza Safrany, the head of the national research institute for radiology OSSKI, said in a statement.

With US forces withdrawing from Iraq by the end of the year, the four American unmanned aircraft will be shifted from an air field in northern Iraq to the Incirlik air base in Turkey, Captain John Kirby told reporters.

Dearborn police claiming to be investigating a break-in asked Ali Hammoud for identification and arrested him outside his home Friday night, attorney Majed Moughni said.

Recently, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has opened a multimedia website called "The Mladic Files," which includes reports of the trial of Ratko Mladic at the ICTY. The website will also include information about the Srebrenica genocide and how it is still affecting not only Bosnia but the world as a whole.

Minister of Education and Science Pance Kralev, who is paying a three-day visit to Israel, held talks Wednesday with his counterpart Gideon Saar and Minister of Technology and Science Daniel Hershkowitz.

The meetings focused on possibilities for bolstering the bilateral cooperation in education, innovations and research, the Ministry of Education and Science said in a press release.

Bosnia's war crimes court found two Bosnian Serb military commanders guilty of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide in which about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed.

The court Monday jailed Slavko Peric, 43, to 19 years and Momir Pelemis, 61, to 16 years. Both men were commanders in the first battalion of the Zvornik brigade.

A court has ordered the gunman who fired an automatic weapon at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo last week held in detention for a month while authorities investigate what they call a terrorist act.

The judge on Monday accepted the prosecution's argument that 23-year-old Mevlid Jasarevic could interfere with the investigation if not in custody.

Two teachers and a university student were rescued from ruined buildings in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, three days after a devastating earthquake, but searchers said hopes of finding anyone else alive were rapidly fading.

NTV television said 25-year-old teacher Seniye Erdem was pulled out around the same time that rescue workers also freed another teacher. The woman was thirsty and asked about her husband, who had died, it said

After 48 hours, a miracle emerged from a narrow slit in rubble of a Turkish apartment building: a 2-week-old baby girl, half-naked but still breathing.

Stoic rescue workers erupted in cheers and applause at her arrival — and later for her mother's and grandmother's rescues — happy news on otherwise grim day when the death toll from Sunday's earthquake climbed to at least 432 and desperate survivors fought over aid.

Troops in riot gear used tear gas to disperse around 100 angry protesters on Thursday, as they tried to remove Serb roadblocks in the volatile northern Kosovo, the state-funded BBC reported.

Twenty-four members of the Turkish security forces were killed and 18 were injured in the southeastern province of Hakkari early on Wednesday in simultaneous attacks carried by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
 
Terrorists attacked several military and police buildings in the Çukurca district and Hakkari's city center and 24 soldiers and police officers were killed. At least 18 soldiers were also wounded when the terrorists opened fire on military outposts in Çukurca and Yüksekova districts in Hakkari province on the border with Iraq, the sources said. The attacks reportedly occurred simultaneously.

At least six Yemenis were killed in the capital on Tuesday in an intensifying crackdown by security forces on protesters demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down. 
 
At least 34 people have been killed in the last four days and well over 100 have been injured. The UN Security Council is expected to make a decision this week on a resolution to “strongly condemn” the government’s human rights violations. The resolution also urges Saleh to “immediately sign and implement” a peace plan brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) which requires him to cede power.

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) and Greek Cyprus have again decided not to hold military exercises this year due to ongoing peace negotiations. 
 
The Greek Cypriot Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that its annual war games have been canceled again this year to avoid ratcheting up tensions amid ongoing talks to reunify the ethnically divided island.

The IMF's senior representative to Turkey has quick reflexes - successfully ducking eggs thrown at him during a student protest.

Mark Lewis was speaking before economics students at Uludag University in Turkey's northwestern city of Bursa on Thursday when the eggs came flying. As he ducked behind a lectern, a protester shouted "IMF get out!" - a slogan often used by leftists.