Croatian war crimes suspect Ante Gotovina pleaded not guilty today to seven counts of murder, persecution and expulsion of Serbs during the critical final months of the Croatian war in 1995.

Top war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been located in Serbia and his arrest and extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal is imminent, a prominent Belgrade newspaper reported today.

The chief UN war crimes prosecutor for former Yugoslavia said she expected one of the most wanted figures from the Balkan wars, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, to be arrested today.

BRITISH troops failed in yet another bid to capture the world’s most wanted suspected war criminal in a Bosnian raid that left a priest and his son near death yesterday.

British troops failed in yet another bid to capture the world’s most wanted suspected war criminal in a Bosnian raid that left a priest and his son near death today.

Nato troops today failed in an apparent attempt to arrest former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic after converging on a building in Pale, the stronghold of the world’s top war crimes suspect at large, amid bursts of gunfire and an explosion.

Nato led peacekeepers scaled back their search for Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic today after an intense three day hunt for the fugitive leader turned up documents the alliance is examining for clues to his whereabouts.

Nato peacekeepers have ended two days of patrols around the home of Radovan Karadzic’s daughter, suspected of helping the United Nations war crimes tribunal’s top fugitive evade justice.

Nato troops today surrounded the Bosnian home of the daughter of Radovan Karadzic, the world’s top war crimes fugitive.

TWO close allies of the world’s most wanted war criminal have been banned from entering the country.