After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge in the first step towards charges for international war crimes, including the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

Pro-democratic parties in Serbia have reached a power-sharing deal to form a new government and see off the threat of radical ultranationalists, media reports said today.

A FORMER rebel commander accused of war crimes by Belgrade was asked yesterday to head Kosovo’s new government in a move that could further strain tense ties with Serbia.

A rejuvenated Slobodan Milosevic returned to court today and clashed with a former Voice of America reporter as UN prosecutors enter the final weeks of their attempt to prove the Serb leader committed war crimes.