FORMER Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was extradited to the Netherlands yesterday to face genocide charges at the UN war crimes tribunal after 16 years on the run.

Slobodan Milosevic’s body may be put on public display ahead of a funeral later this week, a top ally of the late Serb leader said today, and a family confidante said he could be buried in his hometown.

An ultranationalist Serbian leader accused of war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia today flew to the Netherlands to surrender to the UN tribunal.

Nuclear fuel and waste still pose a hazard in Serbia, despite a secret anti-terrorist project financed by the US that moved most of the weapons grade fuel to Russia, experts said today.