BUCHAREST (AP) – More than 18 million Romanians will go to the polls tomorrow to elect 35 representatives to the European Parliament. This will be the first time since Romania joined the European Union on January 1 that Romanians elect lawmakers to the Parliament. Elections were scheduled earlier in the year but were delayed by political infighting. A poll this week by the Center for Opinion and Market Studies by shows the Democratic Party of President Traian Basescu supported by 38 percent of voters. The leftist Social Democracy Party has 19.5 percent. The party of Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu has 12.9 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. Political scientists expect a turnout of 35 percent.

PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFP) – EU and NATO forces in Bosnia conducted simultaneous pre-dawn raids yesterday on the homes of indicted war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic’s wife and children, who are suspected of helping him avoid justice. “We have completed the search of the homes of Radovan Karadzic’s wife Ljiljana, the son Sasa and daughter Sonja,” the spokesman for the EU force (EUFOR) in Bosnia, David Fielder, told AFP. During the operation the family members of the Bosian Serb wartime political leader were questioned, Fielder said, adding that entering their homes went off peacefully.

The United Nations administration in Kosovo yesterday handed over to Serbia eight bodies of non-Albanians killed in the aftermath of the 1998-99 war in the province, an official said. The victims were exhumed and identified as part of efforts to track down hundreds of missing from the Kosovo conflict between the Serbian security forces and ethnic Albanian separatists. Serbian government official Veljko Odalovic said that the victims whose bodies were handed over yesterday, were killed after the international deployment in Kosovo in June 1999. (AP)

Prince Charles will visit Turkey in late November, his third trip to the country in as many years, a statement from the Turkish prime minister’s office said yesterday. The 59-year-old heir to the British throne will visit the capital Ankara along with Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city and economic and cultural hub, Izmir on the Aegean coast, and the historic central Anatolian city of Konya, the statement said. There were no other details, including the exact dates of the visit. (AFP)