UN judges in The Hague have ordered a retrial for two Serbs who were acquitted in 2013 of setting up and arming paramilitary gangs that committed atrocities during the 1990s Balkan wars.

Slobodan Milosevic was to be laid to rest today with a private funeral expected to draw tens of thousands of followers – their admiration unshaken by the fact he was on trial for some of Europe’s worst atrocities since World War II when he died.

AN AUTOPSY and tests on Slobodan Milosevic’s blood found no evidence of poison or drugs in concentrations that could have killed him, the UN war crimes tribunal said yesterday.

An autopsy and tests on Slobodan Milosevic’s blood found no evidence of poison or medicines in concentrations that could have killed him, the UN war crimes tribunal said today.