Balkans

A nine-month-old baby was among at least 10 people who drowned after a boat carrying migrants capsized in the Drina river, officials said.

People in Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia and Albania have all been hit by soaring temperatures.

Independent MP Bob Stewart, a former UN commander in Bosnia, told the Commons a British battalion would be the ‘best’ to send for peacemaking.

Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns has warned of the Balkans becoming the site of a ‘third global, major conflict’.

A political deal enabled the Balkans country to finally confirm a new ruling coalition after elections in June.

The boy aged 12, a woman and a man died after powerful storms followed unusually warm temperatures in the region.

The stand-off has provoked fears of a renewal of the region’s bloody conflicts of the 1990s.

A BELFAST man who has been working in a refugee camp in Germany has told of the urgent need for more mental health professionals to counsel those traumatised by the horrors of war.