AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - UN prosecutors have applied to reopen their case against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic to present new evidence including a shocking video of the murder of six Muslims, the Hague tribunal said yesterday. Prosecutors wrapped up their case in February 2004 after calling about 290 witnesses over two years. Chief UN prosecutor Carla del Ponte said in a written application to the three judges trying Milosevic that she wanted to reopen the Bosnia and Kosovo parts of the prosecution case to present 49 extra documents and question six new witnesses.

BUCHAREST (AP) - The Romanian president yesterday said he regretted that the government had abandoned its plan for early elections, but said he would support the government's efforts to ready the country for membership in the European Union. But President Traian Basescu's office denied the president had asked Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu to resign to make way for early elections, according to a statement yesterday. «President Basescu believes that a good opportunity has been missed to organize early elections and obtain a consistent majority in Parliament,» the statement said.

Judges at the Hague war crimes tribunal yesterday upheld a 10-year prison sentence for a former Bosnian-Serb politician who admitted ordering an attack on a village in which more than 60 Muslims were killed. Miroslav Deronjic was a prominent member of the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) in the Bratunac region of eastern Bosnia during the 1992-95 conflict. (Reuters)

Croatian Serb leaders yesterday sounded the alarm over a wave of attacks against Serb refugees returning to their homes around the central coastal town of Zadar, which they fled during the 1991-95 war. «Attacks on Serbs and their property are particularly frequent in that region. They are often beaten and their houses are looted,» the head of the Serb minority in the Croatian Parliament, Milorad Pupovac, told AFP. He was responding to an attack overnight Monday, which targeted two elderly ethnic Serbs who had returned to the village of Ostrovica, near Zadar. According to police, the two men, aged 79 and 70, were attacked by two young unknown perpetrators who stoned and beat them. (AFP)