The city of Skopje, Macedonia, commemorates Mother Teresa with a special award for humanitarian engagement that bears her name and, this year, with the construction of a new memorial house.

It is unlikely that former prime ministers Dominique de Villepin or Alain Juppé, or anyone else on the commission's list of French genocide suspects, will be extradited to Rwanda.

You do not have to be a Soviet studies expert (or a post-Communist scholar) to know that the American missile defense shield will create a Russian backlash (as we have seen in Georgia).

The end of the confrontation with Georgia marks the opening of a new chapter in the fight for predominance in Eastern Europe: Ukraine. Like Georgia, Ukraine is a very vulnerable ally of the United States.

Between April and December 2007, the Home Office sent 1,999 asylum seekers back to their original countries. Some of the Somali nationals were sent to Mogadishu, the most dangerous city in the world.

Until the next NATO meeting, in which the organization will celebrate its 60th anniversary, in 2009, many things are waiting to be realized by the Albanian government and parliament.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the exodus of the "refugee children" from Aegean Macedonia, and for the first time ever, their demands have been endorsed by the Macedonian government.

Two Zimbabwean journalists from the state-owned Sunday Mail and Herald newspapers?Munyaradzi Huni and Caesar Zvayi?have been placed on the European Union's sanctions list.

Albania is an extremely bureaucratic state and its parliament a bureaucratic organization in which the chief bureaucrats resolve cases only when they want to, putting it at odds with Berisha's government.

The sight of one Hindu priest in orange cloths wandering along a path just behind a Saudi imam in white thobe just after the opening event provided all the symbolism that was needed.

Three years after Prime Minister Berisha ran on an anticorruption platform, his government has been accused of corruption more than any other government in Albania in the last 15 years.

The Balkans is safer than thought. This is the basic message from a recently published report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, a report whose arguments run counter to common wisdom.