SARAJEVO (AP) – A special team of foreign investigators will be established to deal with 17,000 people suspected in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Muslim men and boys, the office of Bosnia’s top international official said yesterday. In order to deal with such a huge number of suspects, the state prosecutor’s office will open a special department in the town of Srebrenica, said Oleg Milisic, spokesman for Miroslav Lajcak.

TIRANA (Reuters) – Albanians suffering long power cuts and water shortages in a summer of intense heat waves were told yesterday to brace for worse. Authorities said August would be tough because little water was flowing into the reservoirs of its hydroelectric power schemes. “We ask for everyone’s understanding,” said Energy Minister Genc Ruli. He blamed the shortages on the lowest water flow in 60 years to the hydroelectric dams the country relies on. The drought has forced the national power utility KESH to impose power cuts of six hours a day in the capital and much more in the countryside.

Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will visit neighboring Turkey next week for talks which will focus on security, his spokesman said. “He is going on Tuesday to Turkey for one day, and then to Iran,” said spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. Security issues will be paramount, with Maliki expected to discuss the presence of separatist PKK Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq with Turkish officials. Turkey has threatened a military incursion to crush thousands of PKK guerrillas it believes use the mountainous region as a base. “There will be calls for efforts to solve this matter. The Iraqi government will ease the Turkish worry.” Dabbagh said. (Reuters)

A Turkish ferry carrying automobiles and fruit caught fire yesterday as it approached port in Sochi, a resort city on Russia’s Black Sea coast, emergency officials said. The 21 crew members and 10 passengers, all Turkish citizens, were safely evacuated. The ferry caught fire about 1 kilometer (half a mile) from shore yesterday morning, the duty officer said. The cause of the fire was not yet known, Petrov said. (AP)