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SERBIA The International Committee of the Red Cross found that the 17,000 people missing since the 1992–99 Balkan Wars are still unaccounted for, The New York Times reported Aug. 29. Of those missing, more than 13,400 were from the Bosnian war, 2,300 were from related Croatian conflict and 2,047 people disappeared in Kosovo.

KOSOVO The UN has set a date for the ethnic Albanian minority in Kosovo to hold general elections, the BBC reported. The Nov. 17 elections will precede an international report on disputes regarding the province’s status. The UN’s head of administration in Kosovo said talks of the bid for independence would take priority, a measure Serbian officials have said they will not accept.
SPAIN Police arrested three men and one woman suspected of involvement with Basque armed separatist group ETA in southern France Sept. 1, the Associated Press reported. The militants are accused of orchestrating a December car bombing in a Madrid airport and a failed attack in eastern Spain last month.
RUSSIA Russia will not yield on what it considers “red line” issues, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a Sept. 3 speech in Moscow. The country opposes the construction of U.S. missile-defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic and a UN plan for the independence of Kosovo, the BBC reported.  
GERMANY The country’s largest synagogue reopened Aug. 31 after a massive $6.9 million (139.5 million Kč) renovation. The temple, built in 1904, was set on fire during Kristallnacht and has not had a major renovation since. Germany’s Jewish population is now roughly half of what it was before the Holocaust, according to The New York Times.
ITALY Police arrested 32 people Aug. 30 in southern Italy in part to head off a feared mob war between two crime families. The arrests were related to the fatal shooting earlier in the month in Germany of six men connected to the families, and as part of an investigation into the ’Ndrangheta crime family.
FRANCE Former Prime Minister Pierre Messmer died in Paris Aug. 31 at the age of 91. Messmer was prime minister of the country 1972–74 and minister of the armed forces in the early 1960s. In World War II, Messmer was a member of the French Resistance and fought on Normandy’s beaches in 1944.


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