PRISTINA (AP) - Protesters in Kosovo hurled eggs at a convoy carrying Serbia-Montenegro’s foreign minister on his first visit to the disputed province since the end of the war six years ago. Around 100 protesters amassed outside the UN headquarters as the foreign minister, Vuk Draskovic, met with the deputy head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Larry Rossin. Some of the demonstrators threw eggs from the balconies of nearby buildings as Draskovic’s convoy arrived. Police arrested about a dozen protesters.

DIYARBAKIR (AFP) - Clashes broke out between riot police and demonstrators at the funeral here yesterday of a suspected Kurdish separatist militant killed in a clash last week, security sources said. They and eyewitnesses said a group of about 500 mourners and sympathizers of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) began a march through this southeastern city after the funeral service and were stopped by riot police. Police using batons and tear gas to break up the demonstration. Police said three people were injured and five taken into custody.

Bosnian-Serb police said yesterday they had arrested 11 people on war crimes charges. The arrests, carried out over the last few days in the eastern Podrinje region, were ordered by Bosnia’s state prosecutor, said a statement from the Interior Ministry of Bosnia’s Serb Republic. The statement gave no details about the identities of those arrested but said they were not on a list of 892 Bosnian-Serb civil servants suspected of involvement in the killing of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995. (Reuters)

Another 13 people, including 12 children, have contracted viral meningitis during the past week in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, where an epidemic of the potentially deadly disease has been declared, an official said yesterday. Since the outbreak began in the northern town in early June, a total of 44 children and two adults have caught it, the official said. (AFP)

Bulgarian prosecutors yesterday charged a British tourist with attempted murder and another Briton with hooliganism, in connection with a bar brawl that left a man injured. Michael Shields and Anthony Wilson, both 19, were accused of attacking and seriously injuring a 25-year-old Bulgarian during a brawl on May 29 in the Golden Sands resort. A hearing was scheduled for July 21. (AP)