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  • In this Nov. 30, 2012, photo a billboard showing an impression of the legendary ghost Sava Savanovic. The poster reads "First Serbian vampire", near the village of Zarozje, near the Serbian town of Bajina Basta. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

    Vampire on the loose in Serbia?

    Get your garlic, crosses and stakes ready: A bloodsucking vampire is on the loose.


  • UN offers prize to illuminate 3,000 Bosnian homes

    Challenge prizes have inspired inventions like margarine or canned food or achievements like the Lindbergh flight over the Atlantic.


  • A poster depicting Gen. Ante Gotovina is seen in harbor in his hometown of Pakostane, southern Croatia, Thursday, April 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

    KUHNER: Croatia's triumph

    Croatia's national independence finally has been secured. This is the real meaning of the recent ruling by the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague to overturn the conviction of Croatian Gen. Ante Gotovina.


  • Briefly: Topless pro-gay protesters clash with anti-gay group

    The Ukrainian group Femen, whose topless members stage pranks to support gay rights, taunted a march in Paris by Catholics who oppose France's draft law to legalize gay marriage.


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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton leaves St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Pristina, Kosovo, after meeting Wednesday with ethnic Serbs, who want independence or incorporation into an expanded Serbia. The U.S. and EU say that is not possible.

    U.S., Europe to ethnic Serbs: You have a home in Kosovo

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured a Serbian Orthodox church in Kosovo on Wednesday as she pressed America's close ally to step up its minority outreach while trying to convince ethnic Serbs that they have a home in Europe's youngest nation.


  • Bakir Izetbegovic (center), chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina tri-presidency, speaks alongside U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) and Catherine Ashton, high representative for European Union foreign policy, during a press conference at the Presidency in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

    U.S., European Union hopeful of new Iran nuke talks

    The United States and the European Union said Tuesday they'll press on with sanctions against Iran, even as they hope the promise of new negotiations could lead to a diplomatic solution ending the nuclear standoff.


  • Professor Meredith Richards Martin lectures as a Navy veteran listens during a history class at Collin College in Frisco, Texas, earlier this month. Colleges are starting to offer veterans-only classes that cater to populations that tend to be older and more experienced. (Associated Press)

    Colleges offer classes to veterans only

    The students in the Saturday morning class trickle in and, as they introduce themselves around a table, reveal far more intimate biographies than just name and hometown.


  • Bosnian mayor pioneers headscarf

    When Amra Babic walks down the streets of the central Bosnian town of Visoko wearing her Muslim headscarf, men sitting in outdoor cafes instantly rise from their chairs, fix their clothes and put out their cigarettes.


  • U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attends a conference on women's empowerment in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Clinton arrived for the long-planned women's event in Lima, Monday, after another weekend of criticism from Republicans over the Obama administration's initial explanation of the Sept. 11 attack and security at the consulate in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

    HURT: White House finds a scapegoat for tragedy in Libya

    Lost in all the "fog of war," as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called it, that is still rising like smoke from the burned and looted U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is an even more glaring global catastrophe caused by the Obama administration.


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