The lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic says he has formally filed an appeal against the former general’s detention – a move that will likely delay his extradition for at least a day.

The lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic says the former general is so ill he will not live to see the start of his trial on genocide charges.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal is fully equipped to deal with any health issues suffered by genocide suspect Ratko Mladic when he is extradited to stand trial in The Hague, a spokeswoman said.

After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge in the first step towards charges for international war crimes, including the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

Serbian authorities conducted another unsuccessful hunt for Europe’s most-wanted war crimes fugitive, pledging to meet a European Union demand to arrest Ratko Mladic.

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

SERBIA launched a major search yesterday for war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic, sending scores of special police to comb through a western town on orders from Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor.

War criminal Radovan Karadzic has spent his first days in prison getting a barber to return him to the familiar coiffured figure who once terrorised tens of thousands.

ELEVEN more Serbs have been indicted in the 1991 killing of nearly 200 prisoners of war in eastern Croatia, the war crimes prosecutor’s office said in Belgrade.

A landmark war crimes trial opened in Belgrade today against six Serb suspects accused of killing 192 Croat prisoners of war at a pig farm during the brutal 1991 war in the Balkans.