WE have all seen the vicious clashes between some of the Ukrainian people and their former president.

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has dismissed the United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal as a “satanic court” and refused to appear as a defence witness for his former political master, Radovan Karadzic.

Your recent editorial (Jan 2) describes the European Union as the factor which, “more than anything”, makes a recurrence of a world war seem impossible.

Bob Dylan is being asked to apologise for remarks he made in an interview that have ran afoul of French anti-racism laws.

Fireworks lit the sky and festive crowds gathered on the streets to mark Croatia’s entry into the European Union, a major milestone some 20 years after the country won independence in a bloody civil war that shook the continent.

Accused mass murderer Radovan Karadzic portrayed himself as a peace-loving tolerant man as he opened his defence today in his war crimes trial.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic claimed he was a peace-lover as he addressed his trial for crimes against humanity today.

An Irish army officer who played a key role with the UN during the Balkans war is due to give crucial evidence at the trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic in The Hague.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one of the two genocide charges he faces, but upheld 10 other counts at the halfway stage of his long-running trial.

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has acquitted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of one of the two genocide charges he faces at the halfway stage of his long-running trial.

Spain manager Vicente del Bosque has congratulated his players for progressing to the quarter-finals of the European Championships despite widespread criticism of their performance in the 1-0 win over Croatia on Monday.

The scenario Italy feared from the start in this tournament was needing a win against Ireland with Spain and Croatia both in a position to qualify with a draw.

Wet, weary, and now beaten — it’s looking like it’s going to be a long haul in Gdansk.

Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic today asked UN judges to dismiss his war crimes case halfway through the trial.

The twelfth man of Poznan refused to accept Euro2012 was over just as it started for the Irish.

After the capture of Poznan, the Green Army today takes its own brand of craziness north to Sopot.

Three Irish fans were arrested in Poznan early yesterday morning following a mini riot in the town square.

Prosecutors are outlining their evidence against ex-Bosnian Serb army chief General Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once “held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand” during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened – but he still managed to inflame Bosnia’s festering war wounds with the flick of his hand.

Ratko Mladic went on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal today, 20 years after his troops began ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs.

Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic goes on trial this week in a case that will establish if he was responsible for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since Second World War.

A conflict she didn’t fully understand has inspired Angelina Jolie to get behind the camera for a love story set in Bosnia.Janine De Giovanni reports

A BOSNIAN Serb accused of race crimes so brutal her victims called her the “Female Monster” has been arrested.

A Bosnian Serb accused of race crimes so brutal that her victims called her the “Female Monster” has been arrested.

CROATIA all but guaranteed themselves a place at Euro 2012 after hammering hosts Turkey in the first leg of their play-off at the Ataturk Stadium last night.

THE wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs declined to enter a plea yesterday in his first court appearance to face charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands, in the final case to reach the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

The wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs is due to appear before a judge today to hear charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands, in the final case to reach the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.

SERBIA has arrested the last major war crimes suspect from the 1990s conflicts in former Yugoslavia, closing what its president said was a “burdensome” page in the country’s history.

Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN war crimes court, has been arrested by Serbian authorities.

CROATIA took a giant step towards European Union membership by winning a green light from Brussels to join in mid-2013, a move opening a fresh page in the history of the Balkans nation.

Serbia’s president Boris Tadic said it is time for the European Union to do its part by boosting his nation’s efforts to join the bloc, arguing the arrest of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic proves it is serious about rejoining the international fold.

Ratko Mladic could be on his way to face a war-crimes tribunal in The Hague as early as Monday, possibly joining his former ally Radovan Karadzic on trial for some of the worst horrors of the Balkan wars.

A defence lawyer for Ratko Mladic says a Belgrade court has ruled that the former general can be extradited to a UN tribunal.

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.

A UN court has convicted a key wartime Croatian commander, General Ante Gotovina, of committing atrocities in a campaign of shelling, murder and persecution.

Thousands of Croatian protesters accused the government of economic hardship and widespread corruption during a march on a bankrupt factory in the capital, Zagreb.

IN his final words before emergency heart surgery, Richard Holbrooke, the influential US diplomat who died on Monday following complications, urged an end to America’s nine-year old Afghanistan conflict.

BOSNIA’S election results showed moderates gaining ground in the central government, but hard-liners remained entrenched in the Serb entity, casting a shadow yesterday over the country’s European future.

IT IS hard to imagine how anyone with a little foresight could ever starve in Slovenia, in south-central Europe, where I spent the last week.

Bosnians were heading to the polls today for a general election likely to further entrench the country’s ethnic divisions, threatening closer ties to the West and possible EU entry.

THE slaughter of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war was a myth staged to vilify Serbs accused of their murder, former leader Radovan Karadzic has claimed.

The killing of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war was a myth staged to vilify the Serbs accused of their murder, former leader Radovan Karadzic claimed today.

FORMER Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic insisted yesterday he did everything possible to avoid conflict and hispeople were victims of Muslim aggression as he ended a boycott of his genocide trial.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused of Europe’s worst genocide since the Holocaust, today claimed his people were only defending themselves against Islamic fundamentalists.