The son of General Ratko Mladic – the Bosnian Serb wartime commander sought by the UN war crimes tribunal – said he would refuse to negotiate his father’s surrender with Serbian authorities, according to a Belgrade newspaper today.

A UN appeals court in The Hague, Netherlands, today cut seven years from the 27-year sentence of a Bosnian Serb army officer convicted for his role in the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslims in the enclave of Srebrenica.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has rebuked the US for trying to get another exemption from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court and urged the Security Council to oppose the measure.

Bosnian Serb officials have acknowledged for the first time that their security forces carried out the massacre of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, according to an investigative report.

Britain and France want to turn the UN inspection force that worked in Iraq before the war into a permanent agency authorised to investigate biological weapons and missile programmes worldwide, The Associated Press has learned.

ANYBODY who gives up a promising job with a leading stockbroking firm to play amateur golf full-time deserves some reward. That’s just what happened yesterday to 23 year-old Mark Ryan from the Grange club in Dublin when he captured the Standard Life sponsored West of Ireland Championship at Rosses Point with a 3 and 1 victory over Alan Dowling of Hermitage.

An Irish lawyer has been appointed to serve on the new International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

Slobodan Milosevic’s lawyers were promising to go to a high court today to challenge a government decree paving the way for Yugoslavia’s former president to be extradited to the United Nations war crimes tribunal.

A Belgrade court has served Slobodan Milosevic with an arrest warrant issued by the UN war crimes tribunal, along with a list of the war crimes charges against him.

Police have pushed journalists several hundred yards away from Slobodan Milosevic's villa as they apparently prepare to make a second attempt to arrest the former Yugoslav leader.