Italian officials today said they intend to prosecute a Turkish man for hijacking a plane, despite his appeal for political asylum on the grounds that he is being persecuted as a Christian in Muslim Turkey.

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator today said that Iran would withdraw from all cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog agency if the UN. Security Council imposed sanctions against it.

Bosnian Serb officials have acknowledged for the first time that their security forces carried out the massacre of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, according to an investigative report.

A cement truck packed with explosives detonated outside the offices of the top UN envoy in Iraq, killing him and 19 other people.

Slobodan Milosevic, on trial for genocide, claimed today that the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica was concocted by the French secret service to turn world opinion against the Serbs.