Ratko Mladic’s lawyer says he has a document proving the war crimes suspect has been battling cancer and that he was treated at a Serbian hospital in 2009.

Slobodan Milosevic’s death just before the end of his trial deprived victims of justice – and made the capture of war crimes fugitives Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic even more urgent, the chief UN prosecutor said today.

FORMER Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s police directly controlled a notorious Serb armed unit known as the Scorpions and gave them a license to kill in Bosnia and Kosovo, a police document showed yesterday.

POLICE in Belgrade have arrested a man suspected of being the sniper who shot dead Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.