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...former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and military chief Ratko Mladic have been hiding in mountainous areas of Bosnia and Serbia to avoid deportation to the Hague on war crimes charges. Both men are accused of genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Now sources tell TIME that the Serbian government is secretly negotiating with Mladic, promising to fund his defense and provide financial aid to his family if he surrenders. "We are working very intensely on that and expect results in a couple of weeks," says a senior government official. The change appears to have been prompted...
...British judge who adeptly steered the proceedings in former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; of a brain tumor; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February owing to grave health, after two years of regular courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
...every turn. With high blood pressure putting him at risk of a heart attack, he continually demands more time to rest. The judges have finally called his bluff and threatened to hand the defense over to court-appointed lawyers. Faced with losing his best chance to grandstand, the Serbian strongman is feeling better. Then there is Saddam. Two weeks ago he appeared in a Baghdad courtroom as charges against him were read out in the new Iraqi Special Tribunal. Appearing reasonably fit and well-groomed despite almost seven months of solitary confinement, the former dictator adopted the same approach...
...DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who presided over former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February due to grave health, and after two years of courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
...help stabilize Serbia's fragile government. But the charges and countercharges over Djindjic's murder overshadowed the campaign. One candidate accused Djindjic's former ministers of being "accomplices" in the killing, a charge they hotly denied. Last week, in the first round of voting, the candidate for the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party, Tomislav Nikolic, won. Next week he heads into a runoff against a Djindjic ally, Boris Tadic. "This is not politics anymore," said Stojan Cerovic, of the Belgrade weekly Vreme. "It's madness." Serbia looked saner last year when, in the aftermath of the assassination, the government imposed...