The United Nations war crimes tribunal has indicted a rebel Serb leader for alleged human rights crimes and breaches of the customs of war in Croatia during the Balkan conflicts.

An extreme nationalist party allied to former strongman Slobodan Milosevic won Serbia’s crucial parliamentary elections today but failed to get the majority needed to govern on its own, according to exit polls.

Nato peacekeepers have ended two days of patrols around the home of Radovan Karadzic’s daughter, suspected of helping the United Nations war crimes tribunal’s top fugitive evade justice.

Serbia’s likely new prime minister pledged today to keep the country on the course of pro-democracy reforms and close ties with the West as charted by his slain predecessor Zoran Djindjic.

A Dutch court was today delivering its verdict on a nurse accused of killing 13 patients.

The United Nations War Crimes Tribunal has rejected an application for the identities of witnesses due to testify against Slobodan Milosevic to be withheld from the former Yugoslav President.

The United Nations War Crimes Tribunal has overturned the convictions of three Bosnian-Croats who have been in prison in the Hague since their surrender four years ago.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal was today delivering a verdict in the genocide trial of a Bosnian Serb general charged with Europe’s worst civilian massacre since the Holocaust.

Slobodan Milosevic will refuse legal representation when he appears today before the United Nations War crimes Tribunal, maintaining the court is part of a Western conspiracy to exterminate the Serb people, his lawyers said.

Slobodan Milosevic's lawyers say he will tell the United Nations war crimes tribunal tomorrow that he's being put on show trial as a victim of Nato revenge because he refused to give up Kosovo.

As Yugoslavia stepped up moves to extradite Slobodan Milosevic to the United Nations war crimes tribunal, the former president’s defence lawyers manoeuvred for time today, filing a request that two Belgrade District Court judges and the prosecutor be dismissed from the case.

Slobodan Milosevic’s lawyers were promising to go to a high court today to challenge a government decree paving the way for Yugoslavia’s former president to be extradited to the United Nations war crimes tribunal.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has welcomed a move by the Yugoslav Government that clears the way for the extradition of the country’s former dictator Slobodan Milosevic to the United Nations war crimes tribunal.

Yugoslavia’s president says he will "facilitate and support" a law in his country to co-operate with the United Nations war crimes tribunal, which is seeking the extradition of Slobodan Milosevic.

Police have pushed journalists several hundred yards away from Slobodan Milosevic's villa as they apparently prepare to make a second attempt to arrest the former Yugoslav leader.

New Yugoslavia President Vojislav Kostunica today promised ‘‘step by step’’ cooperation with the United Nations war crimes tribunal.