The judges who were trying Slobodan Milosevic convened in The Hague today to pronounce the end of Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial.

Italy’s top domestic security official said today that terrorists were likely to head to Europe once violence in Iraq was over, and that Italy was getting ready to deal with the threat.

TONY BLAIR has agreed this week to move British forces closer to trouble spots near Baghdad so that George W Bush would not have to commit more US troops to Iraq in the closing days of his re-election campaign.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal has indicted a rebel Serb leader for alleged human rights crimes and breaches of the customs of war in Croatia during the Balkan conflicts.

Serbs had the pick today of voting Slobodan Milosevic’s allies into power and returning to international isolation or backing pro-democracy parties that ousted the authoritarian leader but later failed to live up to voters’ expectations.

JUDGES at the Hague war crimes tribunal jailed a former Bosnian Serb general for 20 years yesterday for deliberately shelling and shooting civilians during the siege of Sarajevo in the 1992-’95 Bosnian war.

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic returned to court today after a two week recovery from flu to face evidence from a former Croatian defence minister.

Slobodan Milosevic’s wife has warned that the former Yugoslav president’s health is deteriorating rapidly under the strain of his war crimes trial.

Slobodan Milosevic has claimed al-Qaida members assisted Balkan rebels in their fight for independence from Serbia.

Slobodan Milosevic, architect of the Balkan conflicts that produced Europe’s worst atrocities since World War Two, is to appear before a United Nations judge on Tuesday to enter a plea on war crimes charges.

Nato is considering letting Yugoslav forces help keep ethnic Albanian rebels out of Macedonia following clashes there this week.