Main news of July 24
// Jul. 24, 2008 - 18:09 GMT
Crimea residents stone NATO-Ukraine exercise participants
About 300 Ukrainian protestors have stoned participants in the NATO-Ukraine Sea Breeze military exercises in Crimea, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
// Jul. 24, 2008 - 17:30 GMT
Strasbourg court orders Latvia to compensate WWII veteran - 2
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Latvia to pay World War II veteran Vasily Kononov 30,000 euros ($47,000) in damages, the court said on Thursday.
// Jul. 24, 2008 - 16:13 GMT
Serbia to reinstate EU ambassadors recalled over Kosovo
Serbia's new government decided on Thursday to reinstate a number of European ambassadors recalled in protest at their governments' recognition of Kosovo's declaration of independence in February.
// Jul. 24, 2008 - 15:37 GMT
Ukraine urges start to preparations for Russian fleet pullout
Ukraine's president said Thursday that preparations for the withdrawal by 2017 of Russia's Black Sea Fleet from Ukrainian territory should begin now.
// Jul. 24, 2008 - 14:58 GMT
Karadzic used living man's identity - Serb officials
Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, arrested on genocide charges, was using the identity of a living man, Serbia's Interior Ministry said Thursday.
// Jul. 24, 2008 - 14:08 GMT