Serbia’s president today called for the punishment of all responsible for the Srebrenica massacre – the worst carnage in Europe since the Second World War.

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.

GUNMEN in two cars opened fire at each other on a main highway in the Serbian capital Belgrade, killing one person and wounding three others.

John Lennon was honoured with his own street in Serbia’s second-largest city, Novi Sad, today despite protests by elderly locals.

The son of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic could face prosecution over the alleged beating of a student activist last year.