THE lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic says he has formally filed an appeal against the former general’s detention — a move that will likely delay his extradition for at least a day.

RATKO Mladic was the last of three Serbian leaders wanted for war crimes following the capture of Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic.

BOSNIAN Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic was arrested in Serbia yesterday after years on the run from international genocide charges, opening the way for the state to approach the European mainstream.

One of the most powerful – and harrowing – films you will see this year, and one of the most thoughtfully realised by debut director Wilson.

AMAZING was how writer-director Juanita Wilson described her recent triumph at the IFTAs, when her film As If I Am Not There won the Best Script, Best Director and Best Film awards.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army needs more international help to prevent brutal rebel attacks such as the recent mass gang-rape, a government spokesman said today.

FORMER Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic insisted yesterday he did everything possible to avoid conflict and hispeople were victims of Muslim aggression as he ended a boycott of his genocide trial.

The genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic has resumed in The Hague.

FORMER Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic could go on trial as early as October 19 for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the pre-trial judge of the tribunal overseeing his case said yesterday.

A NEW indictment compiled against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, pictured right, who is charged with war crimes in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, will be filed by Monday, prosecutors told a UN court yesterday.

THE surprise capture of Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted fugitives, is expected to transform Serbia’s place in the world and greatly increase its chances of entering the European Union.

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.

The United Nations’ highest court today exonerated Serbia of direct responsibility for, or complicity in, genocide during the 1992/95 Bosnia war, but did rule that Serbia failed to prevent the mass slaughter of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica.

The UN’s highest court will deliver its judgment on Monday on Bosnia’s demand to make Serbia accountable for the slaughter, terrorising, rape and displacement of Bosnian Muslims in the early 1990s.

President Mary McAleese will begin a two-week official visit to Africa next weekend, it emerged today.

In the name of unity, Slobodan Milosevic dragged the Balkans into a period of horrendous bloodshed.

Slobodan Milosevic has protested at a court decision to assign a defence lawyer to him in his trial in the Hague for war crimes.

A Serbian military commander indicted for war crimes has been handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

TWO close allies of the world’s most wanted war criminal have been banned from entering the country.

A DUTCH nurse was sentenced to life in prison yesterday for murdering three children and an elderly woman in her care by giving them lethal doses of drugs in The Netherlands’ biggest murder trial in recent history.

Slobodan Milosevic says he’s not suicidal, is in good health and high spirits, and is convinced he did the right thing for Yugoslavia, said a Canadian lawyer who saw the former Yugoslav President in jail yesterday.

The UN war crimes court prosecutor says Slobodan Milosevic will be indicted for war crimes committed in 1990s wars in Bosnia and Croatia as well as against Kosovo Albanians.