Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic’s defence case against war crimes charges has been postponed until August 31 because of his ill health, the United Nations tribunal has said.

THE TRIAL of eight Serbs accused of committing war crimes during vicious fighting for the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991 opens today in a special Serbian court.

The United Nations tribunal for Rwanda today convicted a former senior military officer of genocide and acquitted two other suspects, including a former transport minister, a tribunal spokesman said in Arusha, Tanzania.

Assets linked to top war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic have been frozen.