Eastern Europe


WASHINGTON - Heirs of a renowned Jewish art collector are suing the government of Hungary for the return of more than $100 million worth of paintings seized during World War II.

SAINT OUEN, France - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma.

BELGRADE, Serbia - The family of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic asked a Serbian court on Wednesday to declare him officially dead - a move authorities called an attempt to undermine efforts to catch Europe's most-wanted war crimes fugitive.
Gates courts put-out Azerbaijan, a key Afghan hub
BAKU, Azerbaijan - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates tried on Sunday to soothe the put-off president of this former Soviet republic that helps move supplies and soldiers to the U.S.-led war in landlocked Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department says a man who served in a Bosnian Serb Army brigade containing units that allegedly engaged in war crimes has left the United States after a judge ordered that he be stripped of his naturalized citizenship.
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