Identification

BELGRADE - The Serbian government adopted on Thursday draft bills on weapons and ammunition and draft changes to the law on fire protection.

Excavations at the 10,000-year-old Boncuklu mound have unearthed finger prints on kiln objects.

The fingerprints are being examined by Dr. Lori Hager, a specialist on the subject.

A scheme allowing police precincts to issue new identity cards on the spot was implemented on Tuesday.

Officers have direct online connections to the numerous government departments that are able to confirm an applicant’s details.

Therefore, applicants only need to bring two photographs and a witness with them.

Police identified on Friday the 31-year-old man arrested in Athens this week who is suspected of being an accomplice of jailed Revolutionary Struggle leader Nikos Maziotis.

Police in Aegaleo, western Athens, were on Wednesday investigating the circumstances of a grisly murder after discovering the dismembered, partially charred body of a man in a garbage dumpster on a street corner.

A pilot scheme allowing police precincts to issue new identity cards on the spot is set to be implemented nationwide in around a month’s time, thereby saving officers a total of some 150,000 working hours each year.

Greek citizens will now be faced with less red tape when applying for police identity cards following a joint ministerial decision, it was announced on Tuesday.

Applicants will now submit a form at police stations where they reside and information regarding their personal details will be checked via the Interior Ministry’s online National Registry.

Albania has agreed to issue emigrants born abroad with new birth certificates, identity cards and passports where the birthplace is  written in the local language of the country of birth rather than in Albanian.

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The Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) has announced on Friday that in the first round of the presidential elections (November 2) 18,336,254 citizens have the right to vote; in the second round (November 16) the number is 18,334,071.

Slovak FM: Balkan criminals bought passports

BRATISLAVA -- Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak has said that "someone in Slovakia took money to help drug dealer Dragoslav Kosmajac obtain the country’s citizenship."