ANKARA (Reuters) - Seven people drowned when a boat carrying a group of illegal migrants capsized off the Turkish Aegean coast, the state Anatolia news agency said yesterday. Nine people, including a Turkish citizen, survived and the police detained them as rescue teams continued their search operation. The incident came a week after about 50 illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East drowned off the same coast when their boat sank while on its way to Greece.

BELGRADE (AP) - The health of the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle, has worsened, doctors said yesterday. The 93-year-old patriarch is suffering from heart and other problems due to his age and is being treated at the Belgrade Military Hospital. Patriarch Pavle has «a heightened temperature, followed by respiratory and urinary infections,» doctors said in a statement. No other details were released. Serbian media have reported in the past month that the patriarch's life is in danger.

The prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunal sought yesterday to revoke the provisional release of former Bosnian Muslim army head Rasim Delic, saying he had breached its terms by talking about his case. Delic went on trial in July, accused of allowing the rape, torture and murder of dozens of Croats and Serbs by his troops and foreign Islamic fighters during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The trial chamber had granted him provisional release from December 11 to January 11 on condition that he did not discuss his case with anyone other than his lawyer. Delic, who is now in Bosnia, met with the Muslim member of Bosnia's three-man presidency, Haris Silajdzic, the prosecutor's office said in its motion. (Reuters)

Bosnian police yesterday arrested a former Croat soldier suspected of war crimes against civilians during the country's 1992-1995 war, officials said. Marko Skrobic, a former member of the Bosnian Croat militia HVO, is suspected of murdering a Serb civilian in Kotor Varos in central Bosnia in 1992, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement. The 36-year-old was arrested in the central town of Vitez, it added. Bosnia is allowed to try low-profile war crimes cases. (AFP)

One year after joining the European Union, nostalgia for communism is growing in Bulgaria, a new poll showed yesterday. Some 38 percent of those polled in the Balkan country feel nostalgic about the past, when they believe life was better despite shortages and lack of political freedom, said the survey by private independent agency Mediana. In 2005, about 34 percent of the 17,000 respondents wanted back «the times when work and bread were guaranteed» against 29 percent in 2004, Mediana said. (Reuters)