A WAR crimes court ruled yesterday that prosecutors can call supermodel Naomi Campbell to testify over a “blood diamond” she allegedly received from Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor.

PROSECUTORS want to subpoena supermodel Naomi Campbell to testify over a so-called blood diamond she allegedly received from Liberia’s ex-president Charles Taylor, court papers filed yesterday revealed.

FORMER Liberian president Charles Taylor called charges of war crimes against him “lies” as he took the stand for the first time at his landmark trial in The Hague.

A BLOOD diamond expert and an account from a Sierra Leonean miner who said laughing rebels hacked off his hands and burned his family opened the war crimes trial against Liberia’s Charles Taylor yesterday.

LIBERIAN President Charles Ghankay Taylor — known as “Pappy” to his band of child soldiers — is a wanted man in West Africa.

Most fighters in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war have turned over their weapons to UN peacekeepers.

The UN Security Council has imposed sanctions against Liberia for failing to sever its ties with rebels in Sierra Leone.