BELGRADE (AFP) - Chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte warned Belgrade here yesterday that she needs “concrete results” in the hunt for fugitive former Bosnian-Serb general Ratko Mladic. The visit to Belgrade came after Del Ponte and the United States turned up the heat on Serbia-Montenegro to capture Mladic, wanted for crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war, and hand him over to the Hague-based court. “I had lots of meetings here to see what is being done to obtain full cooperation,” which was currently insufficient, said Del Ponte, adding, “I hope that the authorities will do more.”

SOFIA (Reuters) - The head of Bulgaria’s largest aid organization, the Bulgarian Red Cross, has been charged with diverting millions of euros in donations from the EU and United States, officials said yesterday. Special police forces arrested Hristo Grigorov on Friday after investigators said he was involved in a fraud scheme in which clothes and medicine donated to the organization were sold in pharmacies and shops for a profit, police said. “Grigorov has been charged with misappropriation on a large scale,” said prosecutors’ office spokesman Nikolai Markov.

Bulgaria expects to sign a deal in April to host US troops at its military facilities, the Balkan country’s defense minister said yesterday. “The talks on joint military facilities are developing within the agreed timetable and will be completed during the official visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Bulgaria,” Veselin Bliznakov was quoted by his press office as telling the US ambassador in Sofia. (AP)

A man was killed early yesterday in Kosovo by a grenade that police believe he himself detonated. Officers found the 42-year-old Serb man with serious injuries outside a restaurant in the northern, Serb-dominated part of Kosovska Mitrovica, a police statement said. The victim died later in the hospital, it said. “Investigators believe the victim initiated the detonation,” the statement said. (AP)

Romania was hit yesterday by its second deep freeze of the winter, with forecasters predicting the cold spell would last several days. Temperatures plunged to -9 Celsius (16F) yesterday in Romania’s southern capital, Bucharest. Northern and central Romania were expected to be hit more severely by the wave, with temperatures expected to fall to -24C (-11F), the weather service said. (AP)