Western nations and Russia are duelling over whether the UN Security Council should call the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian war a genocide in a resolution commemorating the 20th anniversary of Europe’s worst mass killing since the Second World War.

Alen Muhic, who was conceived when his mother was raped by a soldier in wartime, says he would not have had the courage to search for his parents were it not for the film cameras that followed him.

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Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has insisted that United Nations prosecutors do not have "a shred of evidence" linking him to atrocities throughout the Bosnian war, and accused them of putting the entire Serb people on trial.

Voted by E Entertainment Television as ‘the most shocking moment in Hollywood history’, John Daly looks back at the OJ Simpson trial, the first televised celebrity murder case.

WE have all seen the vicious clashes between some of the Ukrainian people and their former president.

It’s not as prestigious as the track-and-field, but since its inception in 1924 there has been plenty of drama on the slopes, says Jonathan de Burca Butler

Appeals judges at the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have reinstated a genocide charge against Radovan Karadzic linked to a campaign of killing and mistreating non-Serbs at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992.

Michael Dwyer’s death was used to further many agendas, writes Michael Clifford.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague has convicted a former senior Bosnian Serb Army commander of genocide and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Accused mass murderer Radovan Karadzic portrayed himself as a peace-loving tolerant man as he opened his defence today in his war crimes trial.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed he was a peace-lover as he addressed his trial for crimes against humanity today.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is opening his defence case at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on the same day that the UN court starts its final trial in another courtroom.

After two decades as a diplomatic troubleshooter in hotspots from Afghanistan to Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi firmly believes that every conflict can be solved.

Arab nations have said they will go to the UN General Assembly and seek approval of a new resolution on Syria.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic was back in court today for his genocide trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal after recovering from a health scare that saw him rushed to hospital last week.

Ratko Mladic's genocide trial was halted for the second day running because the former Bosnian Serb military commander was still undergoing medical tests after being rushed to hospital yesterday.

General Ratko Mladic threatened to wipe out the civilian populations of enclaves in eastern Bosnia in a chilling foreshadowing of the Srebrenica massacre, a former United Nations official told the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at a UN tribunal on 11 charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic goes on trial this week in a case that will establish if he was responsible for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since Second World War.

The UN humanitarian chief entered the shattered Syrian district of Baba Amr, where activists accuse regime forces of trying to cover up evidence of execution-style killings and reprisal attacks following a bloody military siege.

Cold-blooded sniper killings, indiscriminate shelling, surgery by flashlight, death, fear and hunger in a darkened city under the ruthless hammer of a superior force.

A conflict she didn’t fully understand has inspired Angelina Jolie to get behind the camera for a love story set in Bosnia.Janine De Giovanni reports

A BOSNIAN Serb accused of race crimes so brutal her victims called her the “Female Monster” has been arrested.

Works on the Cork Art Trail don’t only deal with Irish issues. There’s also an exhibition on the Bosnian war, says Carl Dixon

Dutch UN peacekeepers have been ruled legally responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslim men in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

FORMER Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic plans to boycott today’s hearing at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, where he is scheduled to enter pleas to charges including genocide, his Serbian lawyer said.

CROATIA is set to become the second country of the former Yugoslavia to join the European Union and become the 28th member state in two years.

US lawmakers have voted down a measure giving President Barack Obama the authority to continue the US military action against Libya.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief General Ratko Mladic has told a United Nations war crimes court he is “a gravely ill man” and refused to enter pleas to “obnoxious charges” alleging he orchestrated the worst atrocities of a war that claimed 100,000 lives.

RATKO Mladic was the last of three Serbian leaders wanted for war crimes following the capture of Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic.

Angelina Jolie was told off for doing "horrible voices" while recording the 'Kung Fu Panda' sequel.

Nato's commander for Libya deflected suggestions today that airstrikes against Muammar Gaddafi's forces were essentially providing cover for advancing rebels.

IRISH writer-director Juanita Wilson’s As If I Am Not There (Ireland/16/109 mins) is a harrowing tale of one woman’s degradation during the Bosnian war.

AMAZING was how writer-director Juanita Wilson described her recent triumph at the IFTAs, when her film As If I Am Not There won the Best Script, Best Director and Best Film awards.

IN his final words before emergency heart surgery, Richard Holbrooke, the influential US diplomat who died on Monday following complications, urged an end to America’s nine-year old Afghanistan conflict.

SERBIA took a crucial step forward in its bid to join the European Union yesterday, when EU foreign ministers agreed to examine Belgrade’s candidacy, in reward for softening its stance on Kosovo.

BOSNIA’S election results showed moderates gaining ground in the central government, but hard-liners remained entrenched in the Serb entity, casting a shadow yesterday over the country’s European future.

Angelina Jolie has cast the lead actress in her upcoming Bosnian war drama.

Angelina Jolie has written and will direct the Bosnian war drama she announced this week.

Phillip Ruch’s monument to Srebrenica is a huge jumble of worn shoes, more than 16,000 of them, each pair representing a victim of Europe’s worst massacre since the Second World War.