Sarajevo's war damage totaled $18.5 billion: study
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The 1992-95 siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo by Serb forces caused 14 billion euros ($18.5 billion) of damage, the author of a study said on Tuesday.
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A Serb general indicted for war crimes  in the siege of Sarajevo during the 1992-95 Bosnian war was on  his way to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday,  chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said.
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Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday.
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Between 170,000 and 255,000 people have died in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region since 2003, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
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A record area was cleared of landmines   worldwide last year, but casualties caused by the weapons rose   by 11 percent to 7,328, with almost all the victims civilians,   many of them children, a report said on Wednesday.
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Attacks by Eta Basque separatists have cost Spanish economy 8bn euros (Â£5.6bn) over the last decade, a report says.
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A new scientific study estimates that as many as 100,000 Iraqi civilians died in the US-led invasion and its aftermath. The study, reported in a respected international medical journal, says
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The World Bank says it will provide up to 180 million dollars to post-war Bosnia over the next three years to support economic and social reforms.
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War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.
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Global military spending rose 3.5 percent last year to $1.2 trillion as U.S. costs for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan mounted, a European research body said on Monday in an annual study.
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More than 8,000 others were wounded in the last two years, an American general said.
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At least 232 civilians have been killed while working on U.S.-funded contracts in Iraq and the death toll is rising rapidly, according to a U.S. government audit released Sunday.
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The wars are now expected to cost taxpayers more than $190 billion for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1.
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The American death toll in Iraq  topped 1,000 on Tuesday nearly 18 months after President Bush  launched the war that has become a central issue in the  November U.S. presidential elections.
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Red Cross says more than 13,000 unaccounted for from Bosnian conflict alone.
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Germany's Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurer, said Monday that the overall insured damage caused by Hurricane Frances so far is between $5 billion and $15 billion.
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Forensic experts said on Monday they had found the remains of about 60 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims in a mass grave in eastern Bosnia.