Shamrock Rovers 0 Rubin Kazan 3

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Shamrock Rovers midfielder Stephen Rice will call upon the spirit of Belgrade as he and his team-mates attempt to produce another European shock.

BELIEF in themselves and the confidence garnered from their adventures in Europe to date are what will give Shamrock Rovers every chance of causing an early upset in Group A of the Europa League tonight.

Shamrock Rovers have named their team as they look to qualify for the group stages of the Europa League in Belgrade tonight (kick off: 7.30pm).

Arsene Wenger accepts Arsenal are embarking on a "decisive time" as they look to secure a place in the last 16 of the Champions League with victory against Partizan Belgrade tonight and stay one step ahead in the race for domestic glory.

UEFA have confirmed they have opened “a full and thorough” investigation into the incidents which caused the abandonment of last night’s Euro 2012 qualifier between Italy and Serbia in Genoa.

Alex Song maintains Arsenal are ready for what is set to be a highly-charged Champions League encounter against Partizan Belgrade in Serbia tonight.

ARSENE WENGER has backed reserve keeper Lukasz Fabianski and the rest of his young Arsenal team to rise to the challenge when they take on Partizan Belgrade in what is set to be a highly-charged Champions League encounter in Serbia tonight.

A former president of Bosnia accused of war crimes was in British custody today after being arrested at Heathrow airport as he tried to leave the country.

GENERAL Ratko Mladic, now the Hague’s other most wanted man, gave up information leading to the capture and arrest of ally Radovan Karadzic, it was reported yesterday.

The head of human rights watchdog the Council of Europe today hailed the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic as “wonderful news”.

Kosovo’s politicians have unanimously adopted a constitution pledging to build a state with broad provisions for Serb and other minorities.

The first supply of Russian aid for Serbs in Kosovo arrived in Belgrade today in a gesture of Moscow’s support for Serbia in the dispute with the West over Kosovo.

TO a sea of Albanian and American flags, Prime Minister Hasim Thaci called the republic of Kosovo into being last Sunday week, setting off a diplomatic firestorm, raising Russian- backed Serbian ire and sparking fears that minority ethnic groups from Spain to China would have a new basis for resistance.

Serbia today vowed to block Kosovo’s attempts to gain diplomatic recognition and membership to international organisations including the United Nations.

Britain was this evening poised to recognise the independence of Kosovo, as the Balkan province prepares to break away from Serbia tomorrow.

SERBIA is planning retaliatory measures against western states if they recognise Kosovo’s independence, including the possibility of severing diplomatic ties with the US and EU countries.

Serbia is planning retaliatory measures against Western states if they recognise Kosovo’s independence, including the possibility of severing diplomatic ties with the US and EU countries.

Alex Ferguson will have the final say over whether Nemanja Vidic plays for Manchester United or Serbia next weekend.

Walter Smith admits Rangers face a venture into the unknown tomorrow night when they host a Red Star Belgrade side who have suffered internal turmoil in recent days.

THE United States and European nations yesterday circulated a draft UN security council resolution that would pave the way for independence in Kosovo if further negotiations fail in four months’ time.

LEADERS of the Group of Eight yesterday agreed on a $60 billion package to fight AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa and warned Iran over its nuclear programme.

The United Nations’ highest court will today rule whether Serbia is guilty of genocide for the killing, torture, rape and expulsion of Bosnian Muslims – the first time an entire nation is being held to judicial account for the ultimate crime.

Negotiations over a UN plan for Kosovo were postponed today for one week, after Serbia requested more time to allow for a parliament to be formed in Belgrade, a UN mediator said.

Red Star Belgrade 3 Cork City 0 (Red Star win 4-0 on aggregate)

Masked special police, backed by helicopters, searched a western Serbian town today as part of a stepped up hunt for UN war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, witnesses and media said.

The European Union today suspended talks with Serbia on establishing closer ties, because Belgrade has failed to deliver fugitive General Ratko Mladic to the UN war crimes tribunal.

IT’S the one that we want! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Eh, sorry about that. You just caught me doing my John Travolta impression.

Another alleged ally of top UN war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been detained on suspicion of helping the general to evade arrest, a lawyer 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.

European Union foreign ministers in Brussels today threatened to freeze talks with Serbia on its EU membership bid, setting an end-of-March deadline for Belgrade to hand over top fugitive Ratko Mladic.

European Union foreign ministers threatened to freeze talks with Serbia on its EU membership bid today.

SERB security officials insisted yesterday that top war-crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic had been located and that authorities were trying to persuade him to give himself up.

UN war crimes prosecutors have demanded Belgrade hand over the medical file of Serb fugitive, Gen. Ratko Mladic.

HAD the International Criminal Court existed in 1922, Michael Collins, Tom Barry, Sean Haughey, Dan Breen and, possibly, Eamon de Valera would almost certainly have been forced to answer to it following the war of independence.

A former chief of police under Bosnia’s wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was to give himself up to the UN war crimes court at The Hague today after Belgrade officials negotiated his surrender.

Montenegro has officially proposed a final split from Serbia, suggesting that the two Balkan republics recognise each other as sovereign states.

Montenegro tonight officially proposed a final split from Serbia, suggesting that the two Balkan republics recognise each other as sovereign states.

Middlesbrough 3 Partizan Belgrade 0

THE UN war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia has accused the government of Serbia and Montenegro of blocking the handover of top fugitives, and dismissed Belgrade’s promise of cooperation.

THE TRIAL of eight Serbs accused of committing war crimes during vicious fighting for the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991 opens today in a special Serbian court.

REAL MADRID overcame the loss of an early goal to beat Porto 3-1 and maintain their winning start in Group F.

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