Milosevic has flu - trial delayed

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s war crimes trial was postponed today because the defendant has flu.

Presiding Judge Patrick Robinson postponed hearings until Thursday and Milosevic was to be seen by doctors later in the day and a medical report was to be submitted to the court in The Hague.

Milosevic, 63, is defending himself against 66 counts of war crimes during a decade of Balkan wars.

His heart condition brought hearings to a standstill last year.

He has called more than a dozen witnesses in his defence after judges reversed a decision that had forced him to be represented by a professional lawyer.