War crimes court convicts journalist of contempt

The U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Monday found a former prosecution spokeswoman guilty of contempt for revealing confidential court decisions made by judges during the trial of Serbia's ex-President Slobodan Milosevic.

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Serbia marks 10th anniversary of NATO attacks

Air raid sirens sounded across Serbia on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the NATO bombing that ended Belgrade's rule in Kosovo.

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Ex-officer testifies about Kosovo war crimes

Slobodan Milosevic's police transported the bodies of slain Kosovo Albanians to Serbia during the war and buried them in mass graves to cover up atrocities, a former senior Serbian security officer said in court Wednesday.

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Serbian parliament OKs new coalition government

Serbia's parliament approved a new government Monday that includes a pro-Western group and the political party of the late strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

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Serbia's top court sentences former security chief

Serbia's Supreme Court sentenced late strongman Slobodan Milosevic's security chief to 40 years in prison Thursday for organizing a deadly attack on a prominent dissident in 1999.

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Serbians say they're close to coalition government

Serbia's nationalists and Socialists from late strongman Slobodan Milosevic's party said Friday they are close to forming a coalition government that would sideline pro-Western parties' declaration of election victory.

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Serbia begins postelection talks

Serbia's nationalists brushed aside their pro-Western rivals' claim of victory in parliamentary elections and held talks Monday to see if they could muster support from other parties to form a government.

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Milosevic loyalists could return to power in Serbia

Two years after Slobodan Milosevic died in prison while on trial for genocide, his Serbian loyalists may score a parliamentary election victory May 11 that would return them to power and dramatically worsen the West's troubles in the Balkans.

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Thaci Deplores Violence in Belgrade

Kosovo's prime minister on Friday denounced the violent protests in Belgrade as reminiscent of Slobodan Milosevic's wartime rule, telling The Associated Press that Serbia must reject "the mentality of the past."

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Pro-Western President Wins Serbia Vote

Serbia's pro-Western president won a closely contested election Sunday, edging an ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic days before an expected declaration of independence by the breakaway Kosovo province.

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Serbia's Western Path at Stake in Vote

Serbs voted Sunday in a presidential runoff election that could return an ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic to power only days before an expected declaration of independence by the Balkan state's breakaway Kosovo province.

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Serbian Election Heading to Runoff

An ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic edged ahead of the pro-Western incumbent in Serbia's presidential election Sunday, but failed to win an outright majority, according to independent monitors and partial official results.

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Serbs Face Stark Choice in Election

An ally of late autocrat Slobodan Milosevic and a pro-Western moderate are vying for Serbia's presidency in an election Sunday that could either propel the Balkan nation closer to the European Union or drag it back into isolation.

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Milosevic Ally Gains Key Serbian Post

Serbia's new right-wing parliament speaker said Tuesday the Balkan country should quit striving for closer ties with the West and turn to Russia, hours after he was elected to the post in a move that signaled the return of ultranationalists to power.

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Man Pierces Milosevic's Grave With Pole

Former President Slobodan Milosevic's grave has been desecrated by a man who pierced it with a wooden pole in an ancient Balkan ritual to make sure that an evil spirit never returns, his former party said Monday.

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Milosevic's Militia Commander Convicted

Slobodan Milosevic's paramilitary commander, his secret police chief and five others were convicted Friday of killing four people in an attack against a prominent opposition leader who survived.

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Milosevic's Son Says Father Was 'Killed'

Slobodan Milosevic's son alleged on Tuesday that his father had been "killed," while a U.N. war crimes tribunal official said the court had been told the late Serb leader had regular access to unprescribed medication and alcohol smuggled into his prison cell.

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Milosevic Funeral Has Potential for Mayhem

Within hours of Slobodan Milosevic's death, his ultranationalist loyalists began laying the groundwork for an elaborate funeral in Belgrade.

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Theories, Rumors Surround Milosevic's Death

A swirl of suspicion surrounded Slobodan Milosevic's death, with evidence emerging Monday that the former Yugoslav leader took medication he wasn't supposed to.

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Milosevic's Death Abruptly Ends Tribunal

Former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead in his prison cell Saturday, abruptly ending his four-year U.N. war crimes trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that killed 250,000 people and tore the Yugoslav federation asunder. He was 64.

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Spain Arrests Suspected Serb Hit Man

Spanish police arrested a suspected Serb hit man wanted in the murder of a Kosovo Albanian who was believed to have had evidence implicating former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in dozens of murders, authorities said Monday.

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U.N. judges abruptly adjourned Radovan Karadzic's war crimes trial Monday after the former Bosnian Serb leader boycotted the opening day to protest his lack of time to prepare his defense.

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While at The Hague, I felt myself standing in a long line of American prosecutors working for a world where international standards restricted what one nation could do to another during war, stretching back to at least Justice Robert Jackson at the Nuremberg trials.

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The official, Richard C. Holbrooke, now a special representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Obama administration, has repeatedly denied having promised Mr. Karadzic immunity from prosecution in exchange for abandoning power after the Bosnian war.

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When Kosovo recently held a contest to design a flag, the organizers insisted that it reflect the multiethnic population, shunning the nationalist symbols of the past.

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Serbs have used satire and dark humor to come to terms with decades of authoritarian rule. Now, the old art form is having a renaissance.

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The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not "attack America," as our political leaders and the news media like to maintain; they attacked American foreign policy.

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In the spring of 2003, during the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, hundreds of documents arrived at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague marked "Defense. State Secret. Strictly Confidential."

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If you thought politics in the US were nasty: Serbian vampire hunters have acted to prevent the very remote possibility that former dictator Slobodan Milosevic might stage a come-back - by driving a three-foot stake through his heart.

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A member of the resistance to former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic has desecrated the grave by driving a hawthorn stake into it in a bizarre ritual which suggests he believes the dead man could be a vampire.

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John Laughland: This book argues that the trial was inherently political, and that the political nature of the indictment made a fair trial impossible.

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Amid signs that the Bush administration may be backing away from unequivocal support for independence for Kosovo, the head of the Albanian American Civic League is appealing to the American Jewish community to advocate on behalf of Kosovo, a region of the former Yugoslavia that i …

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The United Nations announced on Friday it would postpone a decision on the future status of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province, hours after Serbia said it would hold an early general election in January.

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Paul Joseph Watson: The Hague Tribunal's final verdict on Slobodan Milosevic's death has concluded that he was not poisoned and there was no foul play involved. Imagine my shock.

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From the conclusion: Both the scale of the casualties at Srebrenica and the context of events have been misrepresented in official reports from governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as news organizations.

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Slobodan Milosevic's daughter calls the fact that her estranged father was buried Saturday in eastern Serbia "scandalous."

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The International Penal Court at The Hague is in serious trouble, having breached international law on the human rights of prisoners and the legally afforded processes for sick persons in its control.

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In March 2002, Milosevic presented the Hague tribunal with FBI documents proving that the United States government and NATO provided financial and military support for Al-Qaeda to aid the Kosovo Liberation Army in its war against Serbia.

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The death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in his jail cell at the Hague on Saturday has unleashed a torrent of historical distortions and outright lies that echo the propaganda campaign waged more than seven years ago to justify the US-NATO war against the country.

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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Blood tests showed Slobodan Milosevic took drugs to worsen his health and bolster his case for treatment in Russia, a Dutch medical expert said on Monday.

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Milosevic's lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, said that his client had feared that he might be poisoned, comments that will fuel speculation in Serbia and Montenegro about the death of the country's former president.

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader who orchestrated the Balkan wars of the 1990s and was on trial for war crimes, was found dead in his prison cell at the U.N. detention center near The Hague, the U.N. tribunal said Saturday. He was 65.

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