Bosnian Serb General Convicted of Genocide
Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic was convicted of genocide by the U.N. war crimes tribunal Thursday and sentenced to 46 years in jail for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims.
Albanian Language Issue Resolved in Macedonia Peace Talks
Macedonia's political leaders on
Wednesday reached "conditional agreement" in peace
talks in this southwestern town on the key issue of the status
of the Albanian language, Western mediators said.
U.S. Official Meets with Taliban Envoy to Pakistan
A top U.S. envoy met Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan in Islamabad Thursday in the highest-level contact so far between an official of the Islamic state and U.S. President George W. Bush's administration, U.S. officials said.
Single Muslim Currency Proposed in Malaysia
A Muslim leader urged the
Malaysian government in statements published Wednesday to lead
the way in promoting a single Muslim currency, the Islamic
dinar, among Muslims and economies of Muslim countries, a
Malaysian news website reported.