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When you’re privileged enough to attend a top-tier American university such as Duke, losing sight of the fact that your fate may have been different often comes with the package. Strutting to class in a pair of pricey high heels to hear well-paid professors talk and relaxing afterwards with a glass of pinot grigio at night, many girls at Duke and ( Read more... )

(CNN) -- Goran Hadzic, the last remaining Yugoslav war crimes suspect still at large, has been captured, Serbian President Boris Tadic and a war crimes tribunal announced Wednesday.

Hadzic, an ex-Croatian Serb rebel leader who has been a fugitive for seven years, has been wanted for crimes against humanity and war crimes in connection with the wars ( Read more... )

Mladic May Seek to Use Poor Health to Avoid The Hague

BELGRADE, Serbia - Life on the run has not been kind to Ratko Mladic, a fugitive in his own land from war crimes charges. His mouth droops sideways and his skin is bluish and mottled red, the pallor of poor hygiene, bad nutrition and self-imposed prison, according to his longtime friend and ( Read more... )

Anti-gay protesters have fought running battles with police in an effort to disrupt a Gay Pride march in Belgrade - the first in the city since 2001.

Rioters threw petrol bombs and stones at armed police, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.The office of the ruling Democratic Party was briefly set on fire, and at least one shot was ( Read more... )

Serbian police have clashed with protesters trying to disrupt a Gay Pride parade in the capital, Belgrade.

Police used tear gas against the rioters, who threw petrol bombs and stones at armed officers and tried to break through the security cordon for the march.

The protesters then set fire to the garage of the ruling Democratic Party's headquaters.

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PRAGUE - Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law, the United Nations’ highest court said Thursday in a ruling that Kosovo heralded as a victory but that legal experts warned could spur separatist movements around the world ( Read more... )

Dutch officials have rejected a retired US general's claim that its forces failed at Srebrenica because of poor morale over openly gay soldiers.

A defence ministry spokesman dismissed the remarks by John Sheehan, a former Nato commander, as as "complete nonsense".

Gen Sheehan had been speaking at a US Senate hearing on allowing gay people to serve ( Read more... )

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The Belgrade Pride Parade will be held on Sunday, September 20th, with no delays, despite the existing risk and threats of violence because it is not a provocation, but a promotion of rights, tolerance and getting rid of discrimination, it was revealed today.

One of the organizers, Dragana Vuckovic, told the press that the Parade won't be a ( Read more... )