PRISTINA (AP) - The United Nations in Kosovo said yesterday they had discovered a cave allegedly used to secretly dispose of the human remains of non-Albanians in Kosovo killed during a war in 1998-1999. Initial findings indicated that the area “was used to secretly dispose of human remains, and could be related to the disappearances” of non-Albanians in Kosovo in 1998, the UN statement said. The UN-run Office on Missing Persons and Forensics began excavating the cave and its surrounding area in Klina, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of the province’s capital Pristina, it said.

SOFIA (AP) - A year-long police operation in more than a dozen European countries has broken up a major international heroin-trafficking ring, German and Bulgarian officials announced yesterday. A total of 605 kilograms (1,330 pounds) of heroin was seized in Turkey, Bulgaria, Germany and the Netherlands during the joint operation. A 52-year-old Bulgarian man and a 58-year old Turk have been arrested and will be tried in Munich, Germany, as the leaders of the gang, which police believe had smuggled more than 2,000 kilograms (4,400 pounds) of heroin from Turkey to Western Europe, police said.

The EU and Serbia-Montenegro will begin talks on a so-called stabilization and association agreement in October, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said after holding talks in Belgrade yesterday. (AFP)

Some 35,000 postal workers yesterday began a 10-day strike in Romania to demand higher salaries, paralyzing mail delivery and payments of pensions and child benefits. Postal workers, who earn an average monthly salary of 6.3 million lei ($225; 175 euros), are demanding a pay rise of 16 percent. (AP)

A grenade exploded in eastern Albania, killing one child and wounding four others, police said yesterday. The explosion on Saturday in Pogradec, 140 kilometers (85 miles) east of Tirana, killed 8-year-old Bardhi Novaku and injured four other children who found the grenade at a pillbox outpost at an army barracks. (AP)

Turkish police yesterday defused a time bomb left outside a government building here, the Anatolia news agency reported. The bomb was discovered in a parcel placed between the iron railings of the fence of a Justice Ministry building in the Bahcelievler neighborhood. (AFP)

A Kurdish rebel and two far-left Maoist militants have been killed in separate clashes with government forces in Turkey, officials said yesterday. (AFP)

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Israel May 1-2, his office announced yesterday. (AP)