Seventeen people have been arrested in a series of co-ordinated raids on underground websites selling illegal drugs, a top Europol official said yesterday, in one of the largest crackdowns on the so-called ‘darknet’ to date.

The tiny Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands is taking on the United States and the world’s eight other nuclear-armed nations with an unprecedented lawsuit demanding that they meet their obligations toward disarmament and accusing them of “flagrant violations” of international law.

A Mexican national was executed in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the US State Department to halt the punishment.

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo must stay in custody ahead of his trial on charges of orchestrating post-election violence in 2010, appeal judges at the International Criminal Court have said.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The head of Greenpeace International has written to Russian president Vladimir Putin to offer himself as human bail for 30 environmental activists being detained on piracy charges in Murmansk.

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously last night to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, in a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating conflict.

The five permanent members of the deeply-divided United Nations Security Council have agreed on a resolution to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons.

Slobodan Milosevic’s former spokesman became Serbia’s new prime minister today, promising to promote reconciliation in the Balkans after his nomination triggered fears of resurgent nationalism in the volatile region.

As Serbia’s parliament prepared to elect Ivica Dacic as prime minister, the former wartime spokesman for Slobodan Milosevic tried to dispel concern that his government could push this country back into the nationalism of the late strongman’s era.

A Congolese warlord has been jailed for 14 years by the International Criminal Court for using child soldiers.

The first witness is set to give evidence at the resumed war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, about Serb forces violently purging his village in 1992.

A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 made a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery shop owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, US officials said.

The International Criminal Court charged former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo with murder, rape, persecution and inhuman acts today, crimes allegedly committed as his backers fought to keep him in power last year.

Former Yugoslavia's last Prime Minister Ante Markovic, who tried to prevent the country's bloody break-up in the 1990s, has died. He was 87.

The captured son of Muammar Gaddafi is likely to be tried in Libya, but with judges from the International Criminal Court involved in the case.

LIBYA’S new leaders have said they will try Muammar Gaddafi’s son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court, where he is charged with crimes against humanity.

THE lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic says he has formally filed an appeal against the former general’s detention — a move that will likely delay his extradition for at least a day.

The lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic says he has formally filed an appeal against the former general’s detention – a move that will likely delay his extradition for at least a day.

The lawyer for war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic says the former general is so ill he will not live to see the start of his trial on genocide charges.

Protesters throwing stones and bottles clashed with baton-wielding riot police in Belgrade after several thousand Serbian nationalist supporters of jailed war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic rallied outside the parliament building to demand his release.

PROTESTERS throwing stones and bottles clashed with baton-wielding riot police yesterday in Belgrade after several thousand Serbian nationalist supporters of jailed war-crimes suspect Ratko Mladic rallied outside the parliament building to demand his release.

Ratko Mladic claims he had nothing to do with the massacre of 8,000 men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica when it fell during the 1992-1995 war, his son said today.

A defence lawyer for Ratko Mladic says a Belgrade court has ruled that the former general can be extradited to a UN tribunal.

After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge in the first step towards charges for international war crimes, including the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.

Ratko Mladic, the ruthless Bosnian Serb military leader charged with orchestrating Europe’s worst massacre of civilians since the Second World War, was arrested at a relative’s home in a tiny Serbian village today after a 16-year hunt.

General Ratko Mladic, Europe’s most wanted war crimes fugitive, has been arrested in Serbia, the country’s president said today.

Dutch prosecutors said today that they have arrested a 16-year-old boy suspected of involvement in digital attacks which made it difficult to access several prominent financial payment websites earlier this week.

A SURLY Naomi Campbell described her appearance in court as a “big inconvenience.”

Supermodel Naomi Campbell was accused of being not “entirely truthful” today after telling the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor how she was woken in the night and given a pouch containing “small, dirty-looking stones” following a charity dinner.

Supermodel Naomi Campbell told the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor today that she was woken in the night and given a pouch containing “small, dirty looking stones” after a charity dinner.

Serbian MPs narrowly approved a declaration condemning the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, in a bid to distance the country from the past warmongering under late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

Serbia has paid €250,000 in compensation to the family of a former president killed under orders from late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, a government official said today.

Masked policemen were searching the Belgrade house of genocide suspect Ratko Mladic today in a sign of government resolve to hunt down war crimes fugitives as Serbia seeks EU membership.

Patriarch Pavle, who led Serbia’s Christian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn Serb nationalism, died today. He was 95.

THE UN Human Rights Council voted yesterday to endorse a Gaza war crimes report and send it to the Security Council, possibly setting up international prosecution of Israelis and Palestinians for war crimes.

Serbian security officials said today their agencies had stepped up the search for Europe’s most wanted war crimes fugitive, Ratko Mladic.

Video clips showing war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic living freely in Serbia have emerged on Bosnian state TV.

AN APPEAL into the conviction of a Libyan man jailed for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie got under way in a packed courtroom yesterday.

The Rwandan army has arrested Congo rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, a military spokesman said today.

Top war crimes fugitive General Ratko Mladic is being guarded by armed men and has no intention of surrendering to the UN war crimes tribunal, according to a senior Serbian official.

Dozens of Serb ultra-nationalists clashed with police on the sidelines of a pro-Radovan Karadzic rally in Belgrade tonight.

Nationalists were planning a huge anti-government rally in Serbia's capital today as Radovan Karadzic's lawyer predicted the government will try to whisk the arrested war crimes suspect off to the UN tribunal before the protest.

The real Dragan Dabic has emerged- a 66-year-old peasant and construction worker who was shocked to find his identity had apparently been stolen by one of the world’s most notorious war crimes suspects.