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The Cyprus government finally gave up its plan to site a Russian-made surface-to-air missile system on the island last night, bowing to international pressure and unexpectedly fierce opposition from its closest ally, Greece.
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The decapitated heads of three British hostages, killed earlier this month in the southern Russian region of Chechenia, are to be returned to the British embassy in Moscow today, a Chechen official reportedly promised yesterday.
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Fatos Nano, the prime minister of Albania whose offices were ransacked a fortnight ago during an attempted coup, resigned last night after failing to form a new cabinet for his Socialist-led government.
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The Albanian prime minister fled in a hail of gunfire yesterday as supporters of the opposition Democratic Party set fire to his offices in protest at the assassination of their party's leader.
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SERBIAN forces, accused by Albania of waging a genocidal war in Kosovo, said yesterday that they had dealt a 'heavy blow' to separatist guerrillas.
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July 8, 1996: One year after Srebrenica 's fall, forensic investigators are gathering evidence for The Hague trial. Julian Borger reports from Cerska.
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IMPLEMENTING crucial parts of Bosnia's complex peace agreement will be a huge and potentially risky challenge for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which holds its annual council today. Foreign ministers from the OSCE - with 54 member states the world's widest but probably least-known security organisation - meet in Budapest to approve ambitious plans for supervising Bosnia's elections and monitoring human rights.
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December 4 1995: Estonia applies to join the EU and predicts it could meet the criteria to join the single currency by 1997.
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November 21 1995: Bill Clinton's potential foreign policy triumph has shown that the sole superpower is the only power able to mediate and bully the warring parties towards a settlement. Ian Traynor looks back on a war of intense savagery.
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There is 'compelling evidence' that up to 2,700 Muslim men of military age were massacred by Bosnian Serbs after the fall of Srebrenica , the United States told the UN security council yesterday.
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Maggie O' Kane, winner of many awards for her coverage of the carnage in the war-torn former Yugoslavia, reports from Bogilice in Serbian-controlled Bosnia after Britain's decision to send 6,000 more troops to the conflict.
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28 September: On this day over 800 people drowned when the Estonia sank in Europe's worst ever peacetime sea tragedy. This is how the Guardian reported the event.
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March 19 1993: On this day there were riots in Copenhagen after Denmark voted to accept the Maastricht treaty. This is how the Guardian reported the news.
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Tall, gangly, dressed in a shabby jacket, his trousers too short for him, Borislav Herak has been charged with 16 rapes and 32 murders. He is the first Serb to stand trial for war crimes in Bosnia. The locals stayed away from the Sarajevo courtroom. The photographers didn't. Maggie O'Kane spoke to him.
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August 7, 1992: We will not rest until the international community has gained access to all detention camps in Bosnia, President Bush said last night. Ed Vulliamy has already been inside several, including Omarska in north-eastern Serb-occupied Bosnia. Here, he provides the first eyewitness account in a British newspaper of the starvation and human rights abuses being inflicted on the captives
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A STRING of Croatia's Adriatic ports and islands are at saturation point from refugees displaced by the fighting in Bosnia.
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INDEPENDENT Bosnia-Herzegovina was born yesterday in chaos and violence as Yugoslav fighters strafed strategic targets, ethnic clashes continued, and refugees fled to the relative safety of the Adriatic coast. Washington joined the European Community in recognising Bosnian independence but Bosnian Serbs responded by proclaiming their own republic loyal to Yugoslavia and withdrawing from the collective Bosnian presidency - a move that seemed certain to pres age further territorial fighting.
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AS he does most weekends, Ejup Ganic went to the barber's on Saturday morning. And as usual, he chatted with the Muslim owner, while the Croatian girl washed his hair, and the Serbian barber gave him a trim and a shave.
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YUGOSLAVIA's worsening civil war spread to Croatia's two biggest cities and to towns across the embattled republic yesterday, despite the passing of the noon deadline for the latest ceasefire brokered by Lord Carrington.
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From the Guardian archive Taking Gorbachev at his word
Jonathan SteeleFrom the archive: On this day in 1988, the Guardian reported on the progress of glasnost in Estonia.
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February 13 1975 Plans by Turkish Cypriot leader, Mr Denktash, to create a federated Turkish Cypriot State met with a furious reaction in both Nicosia and Athens.This is how the Guardian reported events.
A tragedy of two races: Problem of Cyprus will blight Euro-plans for enlargement