Music Cue: Reflecting On Radovan Karadzic
Jul 26th, 2008 · Scott Simon reflects this week on the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in Serbia.
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Bosnian-Serb War Fugitive Arrested After 13 Years
Jul 22nd, 2008 · In Serbia, one of the world's most wanted war criminals was arrested Monday. Radovan Karadzic, the former leader of Serb nationalist forces in Bosnia, was captured in a raid. He had been a fugitive since his indictment on war crimes charges more than a decade ago.
Relief In Sarajevo After Karadzic's Arrest
Jul 22nd, 2008 · Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was arrested Monday in Serbia on genocide and other war crimes charges. He had evaded capture for more than a decade. Deborah Amos talks to Dejan Anastasijevic, a Serbian journalist in Belgrade, about Serbian reaction.
Seattle Retiree, 86, Accused Of WWII Nazi Ties
Jul 21st, 2008 · The Justice Department is trying to revoke the U.S. citizenship of an 86-year-old Seattle man who was allegedly part of a Nazi unit that murdered thousands of people during World War II. Former restaurant host and retiree Peter Egner was allegedly part of a Nazi SS police unit in German-occupied Serbia. Egner's lawyer says the Nazi-hunters in the Justice Department are "scraping the bottom of the barrel" for war criminals.
Gates to NATO: Send More Troops to Afghanistan
Jun 12th, 2008 · The future of NATO's role in Afghanistan and Kosovo was on the agenda at the alliance's annual ministerial meeting in Brussels Thursday. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates again prodded NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan. Meanwhile, NATO has agreed to begin training security forces in Kosovo later this year. Kosovo recently declared its independence from Serbia.
L'Idol Ancien: Europe's Long-Running Singing Contest
May 23rd, 2008 · Belgrade hosts the 53rd edition of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest this Saturday. Serbia won the rights to host the competition after Marija Serifovic, from Serbia, came away with the top prize last year.
Eurovision Contest: Top Euro-Pop Song of 2008
May 23rd, 2008 · Europe indulges in its annual festival of pop this weekend, when the Eurovision song contest takes place in Belgrade, Serbia. The competition is a rather cheesy contest to choose the most popular pop song in Europe. In its 52-year history, it has become an outrageous celebration of pure kitsch, filled with banal songs, accusations of political interference and collusion between voting nations. Reporter Vicki Barker
Pro-European Candidates Win Serbian Elections *
May 11th, 2008 · Pro-European candidates have eked out a victory in Serbia's parliamentary elections. Dejan Anastasijevic, a journalist for the Serbian newsmagazine Vreme, talks with host Andrea Seabrook about the hard-fought contest against the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party.
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