SERBIA-SREBRENICA MASSACRE

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Serbia makes the first arrests of people suspected of carrying out killings in the Srebrenica massacre, a milestone in healing the wounds of Europe's worst civilian slaughter since World War II. 

DENMARK-SHOOTING

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish police say at least three people have been wounded in an apparent gang-related shooting in a shopping mall parking garage in southern Copenhagen. 

UKRAINE-CRIMEAN EXILES

SHCHASLYVE, Ukraine — Crimea exiles are fighting to keep their Ukraine unity message alive, and are bemoaning a lack of government help. 

NETHERLANDS-POLITICS

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch went to the polls Wednesday to elect 12 provincial councils, in a vote that could have profound consequences for the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Mark Rutte. The 570 provincial representatives elected in Wednesday's vote will, in turn, choose a new Senate on May 26. 

UKRAINE

KIEV, Ukraine — Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine threatened Wednesday to abandon a cease-fire following changes to a law granting their regions self-rule. Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky said in a statement that legislation giving areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions special status has been weakened by the amendments. 

FRANCE-POLLUTION

PARIS — Paris police have lowered speed limits and ordered a halt to trash burning as part of emergency measures triggered by a spike in air pollution — months before the city hosts a major international climate conference. The police department says Wednesday's order includes a 20 kph (12 mph) reduction in speed limits on highways in the metropolitan area. 

TURKEY-WWI-NAVAL BATTLE CENTENARY

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey is marking the centenary of its WWI naval victory over the Allied forces in the battle of Gallipoli. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Wednesday led commemorations at a stadium in Canakkale, northwest Turkey. Prayers were held in mosques for the soldiers who lost their lives in the war. The faithful were served soup and dried raisin compote to commemorate the meager rations those long-ago Turkish soldiers ate. 

SWITZERLAND-OBIT-ELIAS

BERLIN — Bernhard "Buddy" Elias, the first cousin and last close relative of teenage Holocaust diarist Anne Frank, has died at age 89. The Anne Frank Fonds said Wednesday that Elias died peacefully Monday at his home in Basel, Switzerland, surrounded by his family.