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Bosnia war victims say they have submitted evidence to the prosecutor's office accusing former Serb leaders of committing war crimes during the 1992-95 conflict.
Murat Tahirovic, the head of an association of Bosnian wartime camp inmates, told the Associated Press Thursday his organization had submitted evidence against two former Yugoslav Presidents, Zoran Lilic and Dobrica Cosic, as well as the former president of Montenegro, Momir Bulatovic.
The three were members of the Serbian Supreme Council when it ordered the Serb arms industry to increase production to support Bosnian Serb forces, and when it mobilized troops and sent them to the Bosnian fronts.
During the war Serbia supported the Bosnian Serbs in their efforts to annex as much of Bosnia's territory as possible.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
President Barack Obama is calling House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid back to the White House on Thursday for more budget negotiations aimed at heading off a government shutdown.
The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will also attend the 1p.m. EDT meeting aimed at reaching a deal to fund the government before a deadline of midnight Friday.
Obama met with Boehner and Reid at the White House late Wednesday night for more than an hour. All parties said the meeting was productive but no deal was reached. Obama says the parties must move with urgency.
Thursday's meeting comes after Reid said on Capitol Hill that he was growing less optimistic about the prospect of reaching an agreement.
The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will also attend the 1p.m. EDT meeting aimed at reaching a deal to fund the government before a deadline of midnight Friday.
Obama met with Boehner and Reid at the White House late Wednesday night for more than an hour. All parties said the meeting was productive but no deal was reached. Obama says the parties must move with urgency.
Thursday's meeting comes after Reid said on Capitol Hill that he was growing less optimistic about the prospect of reaching an agreement.
Royal officials released an estimated schedule Thursday for the April 29 royal wedding of Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton at London's Westminster Abbey.
0830 BST (0730 GMT; 3:30 a.m. EDT): Guests begin arriving at Westminster Abbey.
After 10 a.m. BST (1030 GMT; 530 a.m. EDT): The royal family begin to take their places at the Abbey, with Queen Elizabeth II and her husband the last to arrive. Prince William heads to the Abbey joined by his best man, Prince Harry.
1100 BST (1000 GMT; 6:00 a.m. EDT): The bride arrives at the Abbey; the ceremony begins.
1215 BST (1115 GMT; 7:15 a.m. EDT): William and his new wife emerge from the Abbey and depart in the 1902 State Landau, a carriage, and travel to Buckingham Palace.
1325 BST (1225 GMT; 8:25 a.m. EDT): The newlyweds and their families make their appearance on the palace balcony.
1330 BST (1230 GMT; 8:30 a.m. EDT): The royals watch a flypast before returning inside for the queen's reception.
The U.S. government's new system to replace the five color-coded terror alerts will have two levels of warnings - elevated and imminent - that will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances for limited periods of time, sometimes using Facebook and Twitter, according to a draft Homeland Security Department plan obtained by The Associated Press.
Some terror warnings could be withheld from the public entirely if announcing a threat would risk exposing an intelligence operation or an ongoing investigation, according to the government's confidential plan.
Like a gallon of milk, the new terror warnings will each come with a stamped expiration date.
The 19-page document, marked "for official use only" and dated April 1, describes the step-by-step process that would occur behind the scenes when the government believes terrorists might be threatening Americans. It describes the sequence of notifying members of Congress, then counterterrorism officials in states and cities and then governors and mayors and, ultimately, the public. It specifies even details about how many minutes U.S. officials can wait before organizing urgent conference calls among themselves to discuss pending threats. It places the Homeland Security secretary, currently Janet Napolitano, in charge of the so-called National Terrorism Advisory System.
An anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, including one child critically, Israeli officials said.
Israeli tanks quickly retaliated by opening fire across the border, killing a 50-year-old man and wounding seven other people, Palestinian medics said.
The sudden outbreak of violence illustrated the fragile situation along the Israel-Gaza border, where small bouts of violence can quickly escalate into heavy-scale warfare.
After a two-year lull, tensions have been rising between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza over the past few weeks. From Israel's perspective, Thursday's attack was the most serious of this period.
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