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.

Gunmen in northern Syria opened fire Monday (November 21) on a convoy of buses carrying Turkish pilgrims back from the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, wounding two people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Residents of the northeastern Turkish city of Trabzon have held a demonstration to protest against Ankara's decision to host a NATO radar missile system, Press TV reports.

On Saturday, the demonstrators warned that plans to allow NATO ships loaded with missiles to be deployed in the Black Sea and the eastern Mediterranean, as part of the so-called "missile-shield" system, would challenge Turkey's sovereignty.

A court in Belgrade has convicted a former Serbian diplomats Igor Milosevic and Slobodan Nenadovic of helping a Serb college basketball player flee the U.S. after beating a fellow American student into a coma.

In its ruling Tuesday, the court sentenced former deputy consul in New York Igor Milosevic to 18 months in prison.

He was found guilty of issuing emergency travel documents to Miladin Kovacevic who fled the United States after severely beating Brian Steinhauer in May 2008.

State of Kuwait recognized the Republic of Kosovo and would start exchanging diplomatic representations at the Ambassadorial level, government spokesman confirmed Monday.

Minister of state for cabinet affairs Ali Al-Rashed said the government officially recognized the Republic of Kosovo upon instructions of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and would be exchanging diplomatic representations at level of Ambassadors.

A key protected witness in a war crimes trial in Kosovo has been found dead in Germany, and he apparently committed suicide, officials said Wednesday.

Nicholas Hawton, an EU spokesman in Kosovo, said Agim Zogaj's body was discovered in a park in a German city.

Youth for Quds (Jerusalem) Foundation, Qatar branch, has launched its new website www.yaqsa.com, with the objective of raising awareness about the status, history and predicament of Jerusalem among the new generations so as to mobilize support for the Palestinian cause and protect the holy city against the occupational practices of Israel.

Unfortunately, the site is only in Arabic language which means basically they are going to retell the story of Al Quds mostly to the audience which already knows it. Hopefully, they might translate at least some articles in English for the wider world to learn about the issue.

Zambia's new President Michael Sata, the first elected Catholic head of state and a devout believer, said Sunday his government would follow the tenets of the 10 Biblical Commandments.

"This government will be governed on the 10 Commandments. Thou shall not steal, do unto others as you would like them to do unto you," Sata told parishioners at a church in Lusaka's upscale Rhodes Park district.

The European Union's new Special Representative and Head of Delegation in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Peter Sorensen, delivered his credentials to the Bosnian Presidency at a ceremony in Sarajevo on Friday and in his first public address urged the Bosnian authorities to demonstrate greater commitment in leading their country towards EU integration.

Sorensen said he expected Bosnia and Hercegovina to meet the requirements for the entry into force of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU.

But observers say judgement falls short of establishing what exactly Serbia's role was during the Bosnian conflict.

Former Yugoslav army chief Momcilo Perisic was convicted this week of aiding and abetting crimes committed against civilians during the 44-month sniping and shelling campaign directed against Sarajevo, which left thousands dead, as well as the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, during which some 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered.