SARAJEVO (AP) - Bosnian-Serb officials have acknowledged for the first time that their security forces carried out the massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, according to the findings of an investigative report. The Srebrenica Commission, made up of Bosnian-Serb judges and lawyers, was formed last year to investigate who was involved in the 1995 slaughter. Its report was approved Friday by the Bosnian-Serb government. A spokesman, quoting Friday from the report, said the commissioners “established participation of (Bosnian-Serb) military and police units” in the deaths.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A Turkish national and an Egyptian taken hostage in Iraq and threatened with execution by their captors were set free yesterday, a mediator told AFP. “They have been released,” the mediator said on condition of anonymity. The source declined to give further details about the release of Turkish truckdriver Bulent Yanik and 35-year-old Victor Tufiq Girgis. On Saturday, seven Turkish construction workers kidnapped earlier in the week outside Baghdad were released.

Authorities on Saturday found the body of a child who drowned three months ago in an incident that sparked the worst ethnic violence here since the Kosovo war, a police official said. The ethnic Albanian boy drowned with two others in March, their deaths sparking two days of rioting that killed 19 and injured more than 900. An international prosecutor’s investigation later found no evidence linking Serbs to the deaths, but failed to explain why and how the boys ended up in the river, located some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the province’s capital Pristina. (AP)

13 arrested. Turkey arrested 13 people Saturday in a swoop on “terrorist organizations based on religion,” before a NATO summit in Istanbul later in June, the Anatolia news agency reported. Several of those arrested by anti-terrorist intelligence agents were suspected of having been trained in foreign camps. (AFP)

Karadzic. Chief war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte expects Bosnian-Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, the UN war crimes tribunal’s top suspect who has been on the run for eight years, to be arrested before the end of June, the Swiss news agency ATS said Saturday. “We have good reason to think that Radovan Karadzic will be delivered to us by June 29,” Del Ponte said in comments on Friday to ATS during a stop in the southern Swiss canton of Tessin. (AFP)