The trial of the suspected assassins of Serbia’s prime minister opened in Belgrade today, with the focus on an alleged plot by gangsters and police to bring allies of Slobodan Milosevic back to power.

SERBIAN war crimes suspect Miroslav Radic, wanted for the killing of civilians and prisoners of war in Croatia in 1991, has handed himself over to authorities in Belgrade, the Beta news agency reported yesterday.

THE wife of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic is being hunted in connection with the murder of ex-Serbian president Ivan Stambolic.

POLICE have found the grave of a missing former Serbian president they believe was killed by an elite police unit also suspected in the slaying of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, authorities said yesterday.

Police today said they had uncovered the grave of a former Serbian president who had been missing for three years.

Serbian police tonight shot dead two men described as top suspects in assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic

POLICE in Belgrade have arrested a man suspected of being the sniper who shot dead Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

POLICE hunting the killers of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic have detained more than 750 people in a sweep through the underworld, the reformist politician nominated new premier said yesterday.

POLICE hunting the assassins of the Serbian prime minister raided the home of a murdered warlord yesterday and arrested his widow, the Balkan republic’s most popular folk singer.

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.

Tens of thousands gathered at the largest Orthodox Church in the Balkans today to mourn Serbia’s slain pro-Western prime minister, as a massive manhunt for his assassins continued.

POLICE yesterday arrested several members of an underworld network accused of assassinating Serbia's prime minister, a pro-Western leader who made enemies by pushing for the arrest of mobsters and war crimes suspects.

Police today arrested several members of a shadowy underworld network accused of assassinating Serbia’s prime minister.

ZORAN DJINDJIC, the 50-year-old Prime Minister of Serbia was assassinated yesterday in a sniper attack.

THE Serbian government declared a state of emergency last night amid fears of a breakdown in law and order following the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has died after an apparent assassination attempt in Belgrade today.

Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has been seriously injured in an apparent assassination attempt in Belgrade today.

Serbia was heading for a major political crisis today after it failed for a second time to elect a president and the top contender, Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica, said he would not recognise the outcome.

Serbia and Montenegro have signed an agreement that will radically restructure Yugoslavia.

Slobodan Milosevic, architect of the Balkan conflicts that produced Europe’s worst atrocities since World War Two, is to appear before a United Nations judge on Tuesday to enter a plea on war crimes charges.