“WE have ended a difficult period of our history and removed the stain from the face of Serbia,” Serbian president Boris Tadic said in a triumphant press conference announcing the arrest of Ratko Mladic.

The family of Europe’s most wanted fugitive Ratko Mladic today asked a Serbian court to declare him officially dead.

A UN war crimes court have convicted two Bosnian Serb cousins for a 1992 killing spree that included locking scores of Muslims in two houses and burning them alive.

A UN war crimes tribunal sentenced a former governor in Rwanda to life in prison today after finding that he was one of the main perpetrators of genocide in the African country in 1994.

The former chief of the Yugoslav army today told a UN war crimes court he is innocent of involvement in atrocities, including the Srebrenica massacre and siege of Sarajevo.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has applied to the UN war crimes tribunal to disqualify a Dutch judge from his genocide case, according to court documents released today.

Serbia's foreign minister predicted that fugitive General Ratko Mladic will be apprehended soon and put on trial at the UN war crimes tribunal, putting to rest an ugly legacy of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will reappear before the UN war crimes tribunal later this month after his first skirmishes with the Netherlands-based court yesterday.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared before a UN war crimes court today on genocide charges.

HIDING behind a long white beard and glasses, Europe’s most wanted man Radovan Karadzic was living a new life, practicing alternative medicine, when he was finally arrested.

Slobodan Milosevic’s paramilitary commander and 11 other people were today convicted of assassinating Serbia’s first democratically-elected prime minister, Zoran Djindjic.

Verdicts and sentences in the landmark trial of 12 people charged with the assassination of Serbia’s first pro-democratic prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, are to be announced today.

Serbia hailed its acquittal before the World Court on genocide charges filed by Bosnia, saying it would help regional reconciliation.

Serbia today hailed its acquittal before the World Court on genocide charges filed by Bosnia, saying it would help regional reconciliation.

The United Nations’ highest court today ruled that Bosnian Serbs committed genocide during the Srebrenica massacre in 1995, but has yet to announce whether Serbia, as a nation, should be held responsible.

Serbian ultra-nationalist Radicals won most votes in Serbia’s parliamentary election, but several pro-democratic groups won enough seats to form a new government if they can settle their differences.

A Serbian far-right party was expected to re-elect a jailed UN war crimes suspect as its leader today, amid protests by Liberals who denounce the party as fascist.

A UN war crimes tribunal envoy met with Serbian officials today to discuss efforts to capture one of the court’s most wanted suspects – former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic.

Serbia has stepped up efforts to capture war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic by putting into effect a secret government plan to arrest him, the interior minister said today.

Serbia’s government is drafting an “action plan” to locate and capture top war crimes suspect General Ratko Mladic, a senior government official said today.

British and US agents have joined the search for top war crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic, Serbian media and officials said today.

Both police and the military are intensively searching for war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic, Serbia’s minister in charge of cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal said today.

Judges today ordered a one-month detention for three suspected aides of war crimes suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic as the search for the most wanted Serb continued past an EU-deadline for his extradition to a UN war crimes tribunal.

The European Union today suspended talks with Serbia on establishing closer ties, because Belgrade has failed to deliver fugitive General Ratko Mladic to the UN war crimes tribunal.

Six senior ethnic Croatian politicians and military officers go on trial at the UN Yugoslav tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, today on charges of torturing, killing and expelling Muslims in south-eastern Bosnia to create an ethnically pure Croatian republic.

A senior official in Serbia’s Socialist Party said today that none of Slobodan Milosevic’s Moscow-based family will attend his funeral tomorrow, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.

An official with Slobodan Milosevic’s party said today that an arrest warrant for Milosevic’s wife had been suspended, leading to a possible Belgrade funeral for the former Yugoslav president.

The Dutch Embassy in Moscow today granted a three-day visa to Slobodan Milosevic’s son, Marko, so he can travel to the The Hague to claim his father’s remains, the Netherlands said.

Milan Babic, the Serb leader of a rebel republic in Croatia and one of the key figures in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, has committed suicide in a Netherlands prison, the UN war crimes tribunal said today.

Spanish police arrested a suspected Serb hit-man wanted in the murder of a Kosovo Albanian human rights activist believed to have had evidence implicating Slobodan Milosevic in dozens of murders, authorities said today.

Serbia is not negotiating for the surrender of Ratko Mladic, the top war crimes suspect from the Yugoslav wars, and he “remains at large,” chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte said today.

BOSNIAN Serb war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic has been located and was last night negotiating his surrender, according to Serbian security officials.

BOSNIAN Serb war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic has been located and was last night negotiating his surrender, according to Serbian security officials.

War crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic has been located and authorities are negotiating his surrender, a senior state security official told The Associated Press today.

A Belgrade newspaper today claimed that Bosnian Serb wartime commander and top war crimes suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic is in Russia.

Croatia’s top war crimes fugitive has been jailed in Madrid following his capture at a luxury resort on the Canary Islands after four years on the run, officials said.

The chief UN war crimes prosecutor today said that the top Croatian war crimes fugitive, Gen. Ante Gotovina, had been arrested in Spain’s Canary Islands after four years on the run.

Fugitive war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic was spotted in southern Bosnia in July, but Nato and European Union troops failed to capture him, a government report said.

A former Bosnian Muslim army commander was acquitted of war crimes charges today relating to the massacres of Croat civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

European Union foreign ministers will hold emergency talks this weekend to try to overcome Austrian objections to starting entry talks with Turkey, after ambassadors failed to reach agreement today, diplomats said.

KOSOVAN President Ibrahim Rugova, linked for decades to the ethnic Albanian majority’s anti-Serb struggle, said yesterday he has lung cancer, but he pledged to stay in office as the UN-run province nears crucial talks on its future.

NATO troops in Bosnia released the son of fugitive war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic today after questioning him about his father's whereabouts, an official said.

Serbia’s police chief today denied reports top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been located, but said authorities were working to find him and extradite him to the UN war crimes tribunal.

Gen Ratko Mladic’s days as a war crimes fugitive may be numbered, according to a senior US State Department official who announced the US was lifting its freeze on a $10m (€8.2m) aid package to Serbia-Montenegro.