(05-26) 08:22 PDT BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Gen. Ratko Mladic, the brutal Bosnian Serb general suspected of leading the bloody massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys, was arrested in an early morning raid Thursday in... Serbia's BIA intelligence agency and the Service for Discovering War Crimes say they have apprehended war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic. Mladic, the former military leader of Serbs in Bosnia, is wanted by the Hague Tribunal on genocide and war crimes charges.... THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has hailed the arrest of fugitive genocide suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic as an important day for victims of atrocities in Bosnia and for international justice. Serge Brammertz says that justice for victims of Mladic's alleged crimes in Bosnia "is long overdue." Brammertz says in a statement Thursday that the victims "endured unimaginable horrors — including the genocide in Srebrenica." Read full article >> The chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has hailed the arrest of fugitive genocide suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic as an important day for victims of atrocities in Bosnia and for internatio Gregg Kilday Larysa Kondraki's "The Whistleblower," which stars Rachel Weisz as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia, was won the audience award for best narrative feature at the 22nd annual Palm Springs International Film Festival. read more He's been on the run since 1995 when he was indicted for genocide in the slaughter of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who helped bring peace to Bosnia and as an L.A. attorney led a review of the LAPD after the Rodney King beating, died in Los Angeles at age 85, news media reported. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who helped bring peace to Bosnia and negotiated the release of American hostages in Iran, died in California at age 85. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who helped bring peace to Bosnia and negotiated for the release of American hostages in Iran, died on Saturday , CNN reported. He was 85. The pair are arrested in Washington and Oregon on an extradition request from Bosnia-Herzegovina. They are accused of helping lead an April 1993 attack on a village, where 16 people were killed. Two Bosnian immigrants were arrested Wednesday in the Pacific Northwest on war crimes charges, accused of targeting Croats during the Balkans' bloody sectarian war in the 1990s. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie's directorial debut -- a controversial movie set in wartime Bosnia -- has a name and a release date. SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's international envoy said Thursday he would block a referendum planned by Serbs for next month that challenges his authority, calling it the greatest threat yet to the deal that ended the 1990s war. Bosnia in political crisis Bosnia-Herzegovina is facing its most serious crisis since it was established as a state 15 years ago, the international representative for the country has warned, accusing Bosnian Serb officials of threatening its viabili... Related Breaking News Stories: 1. Family seeks compensation over alleged Bosnian war crimes 2. Inside Story: Qatar seeks political solution for Libya 3. Riz Khan - Crisis in Cote d'Ivoire He is the King without a kingdom. Still Constantine is among friends • Just two days to go, and on that wedding list we see the names King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie of the Hellenes, Crown Prince Pavlos, Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, and Prince Constantine of Greece. Which might surprise many – not least Greeks – as Greece is a republic. So who are all these fake Greek royals? They are all the family of Constantine, who lost his throne in 1973. Known as Constantine the Little in Greece, he is a sad figure and widely unpopular – not least because, when the fascist colonels took power in a coup in 1967, Constantine swore them in. Constantine thought the strongmen would treat him nicely; but when the military junta failed to show enough deference, he launched his own counter coup, which failed. When the Greeks rose up and brought back democracy in a revolution in 1973, the people wanted nothing to do with Constantine. Then he made himself even more unpopular by suing Greece for millions in "reparations". He doesn't even have a Greek passport, for they won't issue him one unless he ...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
War crimes fugitive Mladic arrested in Serbia Ratko Crimes Suspect Arrested Yugoslav war tribunal prosecutor hails arrest as key day for justice UN welcomes 'The Whistleblower' Wins Top Prize at Palm Springs Film Festival Warcrimes suspect reportedly Warren Christopher dies 85; former secretary of state leader LAPD review panel U.S. negotiator 85 report 2 Bosnian immigrants accused Angelina Jolie Bosnia movie gets December release complies with FIFA UEFA demands envoy to block illegal Serb referendum political crisis Hugh Muir's Diary
