ANKARA (AP) - A Turkish news agency reported that a convoy of 250 Turkish military trucks and civilian buses was seen heading toward the border with Iraq, nearly a month after a cross-border operation against Kurdish rebels. The Dogan news agency said the vehicles approached the border village of Derecik in Hakkari province on Wednesday evening. The vehicles traveled with their headlights turned off, according to a reporter who saw the convoy. Dogan also says helicopters ferried dozens of troops to the border from the town of Semdinli yesterday morning.

BELGRADE (AP) - A Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect sought on genocide charges by a UN court has recently been in the southern Serbian city of Nis, the official in charge of the hunt for war criminals was quoted as saying late on Wednesday. Stojan Zupljanin, a wartime Bosnian-Serb police commander, is one of several remaining suspects wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. Zupljanin is charged by the court in The Hague with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war for allegedly overseeing Serb-run prison camps during the Bosnian war. Serbia's war crimes prosecutor, Vladimir Vukcevic, told journalists in Nis, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) south of Belgrade, that a raid Tuesday in the city found evidence that Zupljanin had recently been there.

Croatian police said yesterday they have detained 10 suspected human traffickers, including a ranking police officer, national radio reported. The group was suspected of having smuggled at least 24 Albanian, Serbian and Turkish nationals across the Croatian border toward Western Europe in the past three months, police said. Police said they were still searching for six people - among them a Croatian, a Serbian and four Bosnians - believed to be part of the same smuggling ring. The 10 arrested were all Croatian nationals and included the deputy police chief of an unnamed town who would face disciplinary action. (AFP)

YouTube has removed several video clips that prompted Turkish authorities to block access to the video-sharing website and expects that access will be restored soon, the company said. The videos, which a Turkish prosecutor deemed insulting to the country's revered founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, were removed, YouTube said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press yesterday. «We reviewed the videos that led to the most recent ban on access and removed them because of their content, which violate YouTube's content policy,» it said. (AP)