Word: serbians
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...Late lunch in a cafe high above the ruins of the city fortress. The long-anticipated meal followed a substantial walk through the park that now occupies the formerly bustling community within the fortress. We stay for nearly three hours, snacking on the tastiest salads I've ever eaten. Serbian cuisine, which is all locally grown, is definitely the best part of the trip. I'll never be able to return to my genetically modified diet...
...57am: Someone informs them in Serbian that we are absolutely not going with them. My boyfriend's sister and I determine through drunken logic that they must be either cult members or swingers...
...were 25 United Nations staff assisting the relief effort for the estimated three million people displaced by fighting between Pakistani forces and Taliban fighters in the Swat Valley and two neighboring districts. The UN says that five of their staff were killed by the attack, including Aleksandar Vorkapic, a Serbian national working for UNCHR and Perseveranda So, a Philippines national running education projects for Unicef. Their deaths may now halt some of the UN's extensive operations in Pakistan's northwest. Most of the staff has been sent to Islamabad. Other aid agencies have ruled Peshawar off-limits...
Bulatovic, Zoran •unpaid wages by Serbian factory owners are dramatically protested by the severing (by hacksaw) and subsequent devouring of own finger...
...must not make E.U. enlargement a scapegoat for it," he said in a speech last month. "Questioning our commitments on E.U. enlargement will not help us at all to tackle the economic downturn. Let's keep in mind that our economic troubles are not the fault of a Serbian worker or Croatian civil servant." He may well be right. But in this gloomy economic climate, they are easy targets. And they are learning the hard way just who their real friends...