Bosnia’s war crimes prosecutors on Friday indicted five former members of a Croat paramilitary force for the torture of hundreds of Bosnian Serbs, most of them civilians, in the south of the country during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Bulgaria and Romania will spend further months in the waiting room to join the European Union’s Schengen visa zone after the Netherlands continued to insist that the two countries have not made sufficient progress against organised crime and corruption.

The governments of Bulgaria and Israel are going to hold a second joint sitting, the two countries’ Foreign Ministers Nikolay Mladenov and Avigdor Lieberman have made it clear. Mladenov explained in Sofia Friday that his meeting