Croatia and Montenegro have tightened rules against the new coronavirus along the Adriatic Sea coast amid a rise in infections and in an effort to save the summer tourism season.

Thousands of Bosnians gathered on Sunday to commemorate the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since World War II, and bury 19 newly identified victims, AP reported.

Montenegro has secured a deal to hedge nearly $1bn in debt owed to China with two US banks and a French bank, Reuters reported, citing local media and the finance minister. "We have reduced the interest rate on debt to China's Exim Bank from 2% in dollars to 0.88% in euros," Pobjeda daily quoted Finance Minister Milojko Spajic as saying. The small Adriatic republic of 620,000 people borrowed $944m from China in 2014 to fund a 41-km stretch of a highway which, once completed, should link its main port of Bar with neighbouring, landlocked Serbia.

Serbian police on Sunday said they have discovered an illegal migrant camp near the borders with Hungary and Romania, and detained suspected people smugglers, AP reported. The makeshift camp was discovered in the village of Srpski Krstur, by the bank of the Tisa river, a police statement said. It didn't specify how many migrants were found at the site.

Turkey officially withdrew on Thursday from an international treaty to prevent violence against women, enacting a decision that drew condemnation from many Turks and Western allies when President Tayyip Erdogan announced it in March, Reuters reports.

Starting 1 July, the citizens of North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are travelling throughout the region, will no longer incur roaming charges while using their mobile devices to make phone calls, send SMS messages or surf the internet, the MIA newswire reported, cited by BTA.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic hit out at Kosovo's new PM Albin Kurti on Tuesday after talks in Brussels failed to make progress towards a solution to one of Europe's most intractable territorial disputes, AFP reported. The Balkan neighbours were resuming decade-long negotiations mediated by the EU for the first time in almost a year, hoping to resolve differences still poisoning relations more than 20 years after they separated in war.

Albania's parliament voted on Wednesday to sack President Ilir Meta over statements which the ruling party said advocated violence and violated the constitution, Reuters reported from Tirana. Some 104 of parliament's 140 deputies voted for Meta to be dismissed more than a year before the end of his term, the first time this has happened in Albania since the multi-party system was introduced in 1991. The Constitutional Court, whose approval is needed to formalise parliament's decision, is expected to rule within three months.

The UN War Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday confirmed the sentence of life imprisonment handed down to former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic for the Srebrenica genocide, news wires reported. The confirmation was in the last instance and upheld an earlier verdict. In the first instance, the now 78-year-old accused was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Hague tribunal will deliver on Tuesday its final verdict on Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's appeal against his genocide conviction for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, news wires reported. The so-called "Butcher of Bosnia" was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the 1992-5 Bosnia war.