BELGRADE (AP) - An ethnic Hungarian family found their home sprayed with anti-Hungarian graffiti and a Serb nationalist symbol yesterday, police said. The incident was the latest in a series of attacks against the Hungarian minority in Serbia’s tense northern Vojvodina province. The graffiti — including red block words in Cyrillic reading “Death to Hungarians” and an Orthodox cross with four “S” letters — was sprayed on the house in the Telep neighborhood of the provincial capital, Novi Sad, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Belgrade. The neighborhood is predominantly populated by ethnic Hungarians.

KEVLJANI (Reuters) - Forensic experts said yesterday they had found the remains of 182 people, believed to have been wartime prisoners killed by Bosnian-Serb forces, in a mass grave in the village of Kevljani, western Bosnia, and that they expected to find more. “So far we have exhumed 182 complete and incomplete bodies,” said Jasmin Odobasic, an official of the Commission for Missing Persons of Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat federation. “Certainly there are 30-50 more bodies in the grave.”

Though Turkey has made significant contributions to world peace and stability, the country has gone without a seat on the UN’s most influential body, the Security Council, for half a century, the foreign minister noted Thursday. Abdullah Gul said Turkey had contributed to peacekeeping forces from Bosnia to Afghanistan, provided humanitarian aid to Palestinian and Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region and worked to promote stability in the Middle East. In return, he said he expected the General Assembly to support Turkey’s bid for a seat on the 15-member Security Council for the 2009-2010 term. (AP)

Croatia insisted yesterday on its territorial rights to a disputed border area with Slovenia, but said it was willing to renew dialogue as the EU asked officials to explain the detention 12 Slovene politicians. Croatia “can by no means accept Slovenia’s claim” to the disputed strip of land that covers four small villages, said Hidajet Biscevic, a senior Foreign Ministry official, two days after Croatian border police detained 12 Slovenes in the region. The government, however, is “ready and willing to sit at the negotiating table and renew a dialogue, or accept (international) arbitration,” he told reporters. (AP)

A new Chinese embassy in Belgrade to replace the one that was destroyed in a cruise missile hit during the 1999 NATO air war will be built in an upscale district of the capital, Serbia’s authorities said yesterday. (AP)