SARAJEVO (AFP) - The remains of at least 45 Muslim victims of Bosnia's 1992-95 war were exhumed from mass graves in the northeast and southeast of the country, forensic experts said yesterday. The remains of what are thought to be at least 40 people were unearthed from a mass grave in the village of Liplje, near the northeastern town of Zvornik. «So far, we found dozens of incomplete bodies and unattached body parts believed to account for at least 40 victims of the Srebrenica massacre,» Murat Hurtic, a member of the Muslim-Croat Commission for the Missing, told AFP. In the southeast, near the town of Visegrad, forensic experts found skeletal remains believed to account for at least five Bosnian Muslims killed by the Serbs during the war.

BELGRADE (AP) - Argentinean authorities have arrested a Serb suspected by human rights campaigners of committing atrocities during the 1999 Kosovo war, the Serbian Interior Ministry said yesterday. It said Buenos Aires had asked Belgrade for files on the man, identified as Nebojsa Minic and arrested Monday in the western Argentinean city of Mendoza after a tip from the US-based Human Rights Watch.

Turkish authorities have detained 10 people on suspicion of belonging to a banned Islamist group, the Anatolia news agency said yesterday. The 10 are believed to be members of a group known as the Hizb-ut Tahrir, meaning «Party of Liberation» in Arabic. Those detained chanted illegal slogans at a rally in Ankara last weekend, Anatolia said. (Reuters)

Kurdish rebels killed four members of Turkish security forces yesterday, a provincial governor said, amid warnings violence was on the rise in the troubled southeast. Two soldiers and two village guards were killed when Kurdistan Workers Party guerrillas attacked their vehicle, said Haluk Imga, the governor of Batman province. Another seven soldiers were wounded. (Reuters)

An Albanian net fisherman has enraged biologists by swapping an endangered leatherback turtle, weighing 806 kilos, for a used Mercedes from an Italian fish trader. Hysni Xhemali told the Metropol newspaper he was out fishing in Albania's Ionian Sea, as he has done for the past 10 years, when he saw «a big black thing in the net.» Xhemali said he was immediately approached by an Italian fish trader but refused to deal. He reconsidered when offered a «nearly new» Mercedes. The turtle was reportedly shipped to a zoo in Rome. (Reuters)