BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania has found new cases of avian flu in fowl in a region west of the Danube Delta where the deadly strain of the virus was first isolated in October, officials said yesterday. Bird flu has been found in birds in 14 villages in and around the Danube Delta, Europe’s largest wetlands which lie on a major migratory route for wild birds. “We detected the H5 type in several hens and turkeys from a small Gypsy (Roma) community, 1 kilometer from the village of Braesti (in the county of Buzau),” director of the Animal Health and Diagnosis Institute Nicolae Stefan told Reuters.

THE HAGUE (AP) - UN judges adjourned Slobodan Milosevic’s trial for six weeks to give him more rest, but refused to consider the former Yugoslav president’s request to go to Moscow for treatment. Presiding judge Patrick Robinson said the adjournment until January 23 was in response to Milosevic’s earlier request for a lengthy break, even though the trial would have been suspended anyway for a three-week winter recess.

Police raided a farm in western Turkey used to manufacture heroin and seized nearly 292 kilograms (642 pounds) of the drug in a series of operations last week, officials said here yesterday. Twenty-three suspected traffickers were detained in the operations carried out simultaneously here and in the western province of Izmir, Istanbul Police Chief Celalettin Cerrah was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency. The bulk of the haul — 164 kilograms of heroin — was found in the farmhouse in Kemalpasa town, where police also seized 119 kilograms of morphine base, he said. (AFP)

Croatia’s president said yesterday that pupils should be taught the truth about the country’s World War II pro-Nazi regime, after students protested the arrest of a top war crimes suspect using its insignia. “Croatia was not founded by the NDH (pro-Nazi state), but on anti-fascism. Our youths should know that and the only way they will know is once they learn it in school,” President Stipe Mesic told journalists. “We have falsified history and teachings which differed from historic facts.” (AFP)

Romania, hoping for European Union membership in two years, supports Bosnia on its road to integration with the bloc, visiting Romanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu said in Bosnia yesterday. “Romania is ready to share its experience with Bosnia on that difficult path” toward membership of the European Union, Tariceanu told journalists after meeting his Bosnian counterpart Adnan Terzic. (AFP)