Floodwaters triggered more than 2,000 landslides across much of the Balkans yesterday, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines left over from the region’s 1990s war.

The United Nations’ highest court yesterday exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide in Bosnia in the early 1990s, but ruled that it failed to prevent the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.

A RETIRED Bosnian general, accused of atrocities against Serbs, flew to the Netherlands yesterday to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal.

A retired Bosnian general surrendered to the war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands today.