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Faithful pray as they take part in a pro-life march in Zagreb, Croatia, Friday, March 15, 2024. Scores of religious and neo-conservative groups in recent years have been building up pressure in the staunchly Catholic country, trying to force a ban on abortions. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

50 years after the former Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that legacy is under threat

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A woman lays a bouquet of flowers at the foot of a statue of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in Pristina, Kosovo, Thursday, March 24, 2022. A monument in Kosovo, a snake named after her in Serbia. Madeleine Albright was either loved or hated in the Balkans for her pivotal role during the southern European region's wars of the 1990s. Following the former U.S. secretary of state's death on Wednesday at age 84, how her legacy is viewed from the Balkans mostly depends on whether one was on the receiving or triggering end of the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Balkans split over Madeleine Albright’s wartime legacy

By Dustan Stojanovic - Associated Press

FILE - A woman walks in front of the destroyed former Serbian army headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia, on March 24, 2010. Well before Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was using the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to ostensibly offer justification for the invasion of a sovereign European country. The Russian president has been particularly focused on NATO’s bombardment of Serbia in 1999 and the West’s acceptance of Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008. He claims both created an illegal precedent that shattered international law and order, apparently giving him an excuse to invade Ukraine. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Putin’s Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine war

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

In this April 15, 2021, photo President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House in Washington. In recent days, Mr. Biden has piled new sanctions on Russia, announced he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in less than five months and backed away from a campaign promise to sharply raise refugee admission caps. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

CROSSTALK: Fool’s Russian

By Julia Gorin

Gordana Schifanelli is a lawyer married to a former Army special forces officer, and what’s more, she grew up in a Communist household in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Gordana Schifanelli challenges woke Maryland schools over racist claims

By James Varney - The Washington Times

Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, lifts off from the the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

CROSSTALK: Ukraine isn’t vital to U.S. security

By Julia Gorin

A uniformed man carries a Croatian flag during a commemoration ceremony in Bleiburg, Austria, Saturday, May 12, 2018. Thousands of Croatian far-right supporters have gathered in a field in southern Austria to commemorate the massacre of pro-Nazis by victorious communists at the end of World War II. The controversial annual event was held Saturday amid a surge of far-right sentiments in Croatia, the European Union's newest member. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Croats gather in Austria for controversial commemoration

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the ICTY on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, Slobodan Praljak brings a bottle to his lips, during a Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Praljak yelled, &quot;I am not a war criminal!&quot; and appeared to drink from a small bottle, seconds after judges reconfirmed his 20-year prison sentence for involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of a would-be Bosnian Croat ministate in Bosnia in the early 1990s. (ICTY via AP)

The Latest: UN prosecutors urge Croatia to accept findings

Associated Press

A May 29, 2011 file photo shows Bosnian Serb protesters holding posters depicting former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic, during a protest in Mladic's hometown of Kalinovik, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)

The Latest: Kosovo welcomes verdict for Serb military leader

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Exterior view of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, ICTY, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, where the court is scheduled to deliver its verdicts in the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic on Wednesday Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Landmark Mladic verdict closely watched in the Balkans

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

Scott Turow is touring to promote his latest novel, "Testimony." (Regional Arts Commission)

Scott Turow, ‘Presumed Innocent’ author, discusses capital punishment and new book ‘Testimony’

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

SANDS: As chess player and teacher, Velimirovic made his mark

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Former Real Madrid coach Vujadin Boskov dies

Associated Press

Jovanka Broz, the widow of former Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, stands by his tomb after laying a wreath during a ceremony in Belgrade, Serbia, on Friday, May 4, 2001. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Former Yugoslav first lady Jovanka Broz, Tito’s widow, dies at 88

By Jovana Gec - Associated Press

Regional soccer league mulled in the Balkans

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC - Associated Press

Remains of last Yugoslav king returned to Serbia

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

Columbia University janitor Gac Filipaj, an ethnic Albanian who left his native Montenegro 20 years ago to escape war, give a thumbs-up during the School of General Studies graduation ceremony in New York on Sunday. (Associated Press)

Janitor at Ivy League school graduates

By Verena Dobnik - Associated Press