SARAJEVO (AFP) – Bosnian forensic experts have unearthed the remains of almost 200 atrocity victims believed to be Muslims and Croats killed at the start of the country’s 1992-1995 war, an official said yesterday. “The exhumation... is complete. We have found 115 complete and 162 incomplete skeletons” in a mass grave at Gorice, near the northeastern town of Brcko, said Murat Hurtic of Bosnia’s Missing Persons Commission.

MOSCOW (Reuters) –A diplomat with Turkey’s embassy in Moscow is in hospital with stab wounds, the embassy said in a statement yesterday. “On the night of December 10, embassy counsellor Anil Cecek was the victim of an attack and suffered a knife wound,” the embassy’s press section said in a statement. “The condition of the... diplomat, who is recuperating in the hospital, is good.” An embassy official said he was unable to comment on whether there was any racial motive to the attack.

Turkish rescuers yesterday recovered the body of a nine-year-old boy from the wreckage of a building that housed military families, raising the death toll in the collapse caused by a boiler explosion to seven, officials said. Helped by sniffer dogs, teams were still trying to reach a woman believed trapped under the rubble in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast. Among the dead were five children, including the nine-year-old boy found yesterday, as well as a newborn. (AP)

Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev met with his Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad yesterday and discussed strengthening relations between the two countries as well as future plans for cooperation. “We thank the stance of support the Bulgarian government has given to Iraq to achieve democracy and develop the Iraqi army in a way that allows our Bulgarian military friends to start returning home,” said a statement from Maliki’s office. (AFP)

Hungary will initially allow Romanians and Bulgarians access to some 140 professions when their countries join the European Union, but other jobs will remain restricted for at least two years, the country announced yesterday. The fields were not identified. (AP)