The family of a former IRA leader who requested Nazi German aid were today said to be devastated after his memorial was broken and defaced by youths claiming to be anti-fascists.

US presidential hopeful Wesley Clark ended two days of testimony at Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial today, saying the former Serb leader was the same argumentative and petulant man he faced over a negotiating table during the Balkan wars.

Prosecutors have introduced a key piece of evidence at Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial - a letter that implies he had power over rebel Serb troops responsible for atrocities in Croatia.

A US human rights group informed Slobodan Milosevic of abuses committed by Serbs in Croatia in the early 1990s but he did nothing to prevent or punish them, activist Jeri Laber told the former Yugoslav president’s war crimes trial today.

Nato's former top soldier says Slobodan Milosevic suggested shooting ethnic Albanians to resolve the Kosovo problem.

Serb forces pillaged Kosovar Albanian villages in 1999, leaving the bodies of children and even a crippled old woman in the smouldering ruins, a retired farmer testified at Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial today.

Slobodan Milosevic today phoned his family from The Hague prison, denying the war crimes charges and saying he was ‘‘fine and healthy’’, the former president’s lawyer said.