An ally of late President Slobodan Milosevic was elected as Serbia’s new parliament speaker today, signalling a return of ultranationalists to power in the troubled Balkan country.

FOUR paramilitaries seen in a video gunning down Bosnian Muslims near Srebrenica in 1995 were convicted of war crimes against civilians yesterday by Serbia’s War Crimes Court.

The Serbian president today hailed the World Court’s acquittal of Serbia on genocide charges, but warned of “dramatic consequences” if the court’s demand for the arrest of indicted war criminals is not carried out.

One of the most trusted allies of former President Slobodan Milosevic, the ex-Yugoslav army chief Gen Nebojsa Pavkovic, was to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal in Belgrade today.

Judges at the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today rejected a request by two British lawyers appointed to defend former President Slobodan Milosevic seeking to end their role in his war crimes trial.

Serbia’s pro-Western President Boris Tadic survived an apparent assassination attempt when a car repeatedly tried to crash into his motorcade.

Defying international pressure, Serbia is refusing to arrest four top suspects wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal.

SERBIA’S ruling conservative coalition appears to have suffered a severe blow in local elections.

SERBS went to the polls yesterday to choose local leaders in key elections expected to be a tight race between pro-Western reformers and loyalists of former President Slobodan Milosevic.

Serbs were today choosing local leaders in key elections expected to be a tight race between pro-Western reformers and loyalists of former President Slobodan Milosevic.

Serbia faced becoming a pariah state again tonight after an extreme nationalist party made massive gains in a general election.

Serbia’s pro-Western government which toppled former President Slobodan Milosevic may fall under the onslaught of nationalists and defectors from the crumbling governing block, the prime minister warned today.

SERBIAN police have filed charges against former President Slobodan Milosevic and several of his allies for abducting and killing a former president nearly three years ago.

Serbian police have filed charges against former President Slobodan Milosevic and several of his allies for abducting and killing a former president nearly three years ago.

A suspect rounded up after last month’s murder of Serbia’s prime minister has accused former President Slobodan Milosevic of being involved in a 2000 assassination attempt against an opposition leader, officials said today.

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

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.

Thousands of Serbian workers have taken to the streets of Belgrade to demand higher wages and to protest at a draft labour law that would increase employers’ rights.

Yugoslavia’s former secret police chief and two other top security aides of former President Slobodan Milosevic were jailed in Belgrade today for revealing state secrets.

The Yugoslavian Government has adopted a draft law enabling the extradition of former President Slobodan Milosevic to the UN war crimes court.

Belgrade’s District Court today extended former President Slobodan Milosevic’s stay in jail for two more months.

Nearly 200 Yugoslav army officers and soldiers are either undergoing trial for alleged war crimes in Kosovo, will do so, or already have been tried, Serb military officials said today.

Nato is considering letting Yugoslav forces help keep ethnic Albanian rebels out of Macedonia following clashes there this week.