Serbia
Ratko Mladic to make first war crimes court appearance
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June 03, 2011Ex-Bosnian Serb army head Ratko Mladic is due to make his first appearance at The Hague war crimes tribunal. He was arrested last week in Serbia after 16 years on the run from charges of having committed atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. His...
Ratko Mladic awaits war crimes trial in The Hague
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June 01, 2011Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has spent his first night in UN custody in the Netherlands, awaiting trial on genocide charges. The 69-year-old was admitted to the detention unit in The Hague on Tuesday and placed in an isolation...
Serbia extradites Ratko Mladic to The Hague
May 31, 2011Ratko Mladic is being flown from Belgrade to a UN tribunal in The Hague, after a Serbian court rejected an appeal against his transfer. Serbia's justice minister said she had signed the extradition order. After the hearing, the former Bosnian Serb army...
Ratko Mladic to file appeal against Hague extradition
May 30, 2011Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic is to file an appeal later against his extradition to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. His family says Gen Mladic is too sick to travel, but the Serbian government is expected to reject the appeal....
Mladic: Serbia police on alert for nationalist protests
May 29, 2011Serbian police are stepping up security ahead of a rally by ultra-nationalists angry at the arrest of ex-Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic. The Serbian Radical Party insists the protest in Belgrade will be peaceful. A similar rally in 2008 over the...
Mladic due at extradition hearing
May 27, 2011Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic is due back in court in the Serbian capital Belgrade for the resumption of an extradition hearing. The session against the 69-year-old was halted on Thursday when his lawyer said he was in "poor...
'Most wanted Nazi' Sandor Kepiro, 97, tried in Hungary
May 05, 2011A 97-year-old Hungarian accused of massacring civilians in Serbia in 1942 has gone on trial in Hungary. Sandor Kepiro was listed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as the world's most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect. More than 1,200 Jewish, Serb and Roma...
Serbia and Kosovo in first 'post-independence' talks
March 08, 2011Serbia and Kosovo are due to hold their first high-level talks since Pristina declared independence three years ago. Kosovo's declaration of independence is rejected by Serbia, but both sides have agreed to the EU-sponsored talks. The meeting in Brussels...
Kosovo Prime Minister Thaci declares victory in elections
December 13, 2010Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has claimed victory for his Democratic Party of Kosovo in the first general election in Kosovo since the territory declared independence from Serbia nearly three years ago. Thaci made his claim after an exit poll put his...
Kosovo holds first Parliamentary election
December 13, 2010Kosovo is holding its first parliamentary election since it declared independence from Serbia nearly three years ago. The polls opened this morning across Kosovo, but while voting stations in Pristina and the south saw a steady stream of voters, most...