BANJA LUKA (Reuters) - The US ambassador for war crimes yesterday warned Bosnian-Serb leaders they would face more international pressure unless they did more to arrest most-wanted fugitives Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. “This means... sustained economic or political sanctions on the RS (Republika Srpska) and ongoing action against political leaders who willfully deny or ignore their duties,” said Pierre-Richard Prosper, US ambassador-at-large for war crimes. Prosper addressed the Serb Republic’s Parliament a day after the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia detained Karadzic’s wartime defense minister, General Bogdan Subotic, for his alleged support of Serb war crimes suspects.

ISTANBUL (AP) - A Turkish court yesterday postponed the trial of a Turkish man charged with stabbing to death two English soccer fans until next month, pending a new forensic report. Ali Umit Demir was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stabbing Christopher Loftus and Kevin Speight in April 2000 after street clashes in downtown Istanbul the night before Leeds United played Turkey’s Galatasaray in the second leg of the UEFA Cup semifinals. Yesterday, the court ordered the trial postponed until April 8, saying a forensic report determining whether the knife had both men’s blood should be completed before the trial continued.

The Council of Europe yesterday urged Albania’s political parties to resume dialogue as the only way to take the impoverished country forward. Walter Schwimmer, the council’s secretary-general, met with top officials and opposition leaders and told them Parliament should serve as the platform for political disagreements and that street protests should be peaceful. “There should be constructive and positive political dialogue,” he said after meeting with Prime Minister Fatos Nano. (AP)

People in the Albanian capital Tirana have been shocked by an increasing number of eggs without yolks, local television reported yesterday. “We broke half of the eggs we bought but they lacked yolks. Friends of ours told us the same had happened to them and in restaurants as well,” a woman told the News24 TV station. Antonio Conardio, a professor of Fowl Pathology at the University of Bari in Italy, said the all-white eggs were a rare phenomenon that happened when chickens were overdriven to produce more eggs. (Reuters)

Bulgaria’s opposition Socialist party yesterday put forward a censure motion to bring down the center-right government of Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg for its alleged lack of responsibility. The motion, the fifth since Saxe-Coburg came to power in July 2001, was unlikely to topple the government, as the premier can rely on the support of 128 deputies out of 240 in Parliament. It will be debated and voted on next week. (AFP)