Vukovar was a modestly prosperous, sleepy, provincial town in eastern Croatia, near the border with Serbia, noted for its picturesque baroque architecture. That was before the war for Croatia's ...

Biram Dah Abeid was just 8 when he became aware of slavery in his home country of Mauritania. He saw a defenseless youth being beaten by a man—a common experience, his parents explained, for the ...

Located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube, Vukovar has Croatia's largest river port. There is one docking location, near the town centre, where tourist boats moor, on the promenade near ...

Croatia says it will introduce signs in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts to respect Serb rights in the town of Vukovar, which was devastated by Croat-Serb fighting in 1991. Ethnic Serbs make up 34. ...