BELGRADE (AP) - Two unidentified men injected the sister of Serbia’s slain Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic with a sedative, doctors said after examining blood samples from the victim. Gordana Djindjic-Filipovic, 54, was attacked late Saturday in her home near the western Serbian city of Valjevo in an incident apparently linked to the ongoing trial of suspects accused of killing her brother last year. The hospital chief, Zoran Stankovic, told Serbia’s state-run television late Sunday that blood tests showed the “presence of a small amount of diazepam,” a commonly used sedative. Djindjic-Filipovic remained hospitalized and unavailable for comment.

TIRANA (Reuters) - Four Albanians were killed by a landmine explosion near a remote village in northern Albania on the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), police said yesterday. Three brothers aged 13, 15, 20 and a 38-year-old were gathering medicinal herbs about 1.5 km (one mile) from the border when they were blown to pieces by the device, which blasted out a three-meter (10-foot) deep crater on Sunday.

Kosovo’s United Nations administrator Harri Holkeri returned to the protectorate yesterday following a brief illness, but hinted he might not be much longer in the post. “It remains to be seen,” the 67-year-old former Finnish prime minister told reporters when pressed on his future in the role of governor of Kosovo. (Reuters)

The Roma community in Bosnia is exposed to widespread discrimination even by the local police, a report by the Hungary-based European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) charged yesterday. “Police officers in Bosnia-Herzegovina have been perpetrators of violent attacks on Roma, have specifically targeted Roma through ethnic profiling practices (and) have conducted abusive raids on Roma settlements,” the report presented in Sarajevo said. It added that Roma were being accused of crimes on the basis of little or no evidence while the crimes against them were not being properly investigated. (AFP)

Forensic experts yesterday began exhuming bodies of 61 so far unidentified victims killed during the Croatian and Bosnian wars and buried at a Belgrade cemetery. The effort to try identify the bodies through DNA tests was launched by government officials of Serbia-Montenegro and Croatia. Representatives from Bosnia-Herzegovina are expected to join the teams in the coming days. (AP)

UN police in Kosovo have arrested three ethnic Albanians for setting fire to a 11th century Serb Orthodox church in the west of the province, an official told AFP yesterday. Fatmir Gjurgjeali, spokesperson for the Kosovo police, said the three were arrested for torching the church Bogorodica Ljeviska in the town of Prizren during March riots that left 19 dead and over 900 injured in the UN-run province. (AFP)

Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov said yesterday he has invited Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to Sofia in the midst of a heated dispute over the recent death sentences given to five Bulgarian nurses in Libya. Earlier this month a Libyan court sentenced the five nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for intentionally infecting 426 Libyan children with AIDS after a five-year trial. (Reuters)