SARAJEVO (AFP) - The remains of more than 400 Bosnian Muslims killed in Srebrenica will be buried there next month on the 12th anniversary of Europe's worst atrocity since WWII, organizers said yesterday. The remains of 436 victims had been found in mass graves in the eastern town region and recently identified by DNA analysis. Thousands of the Srebrenica victims' relatives and the massacre survivors are expected to attend on July 11 a joint funeral at the cemetery where more than 2,400 victims have already been buried.

PRISTINA (AFP) - Kosovo and Serbian authorities have solved the fate of another 259 people who went missing in the 1998-1999 war in the province, the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday. «Since the start of the process, three years ago, the fate and whereabouts of about a third of the total number of persons reported missing has been elucidated,» head of the ICRC operations for southeastern Europe Francois Stamm said. The remains of the 259 were handed over to their families.

NATO and EU forces in Bosnia on yesterday raided the home of genocide suspect Radovan Karadzic's wife, who is suspected of helping the wartime Serb leader avoid justice. «The search is being carried out at Mrs Karadzic home» in the Bosnian-Serb wartime stronghold of Pale, near the capital Sarajevo, a NATO spokesman, Derek Chappell, told AFP. »The aim of this operation is to find materials or any information which would assist the ICTY in the search for and capture of persons indicted» by the tribunal, he said. (Reuters)

Prominent Turkish Kurd politician Orhan Dogan died yesterday in hospital in the eastern city of Van after suffering a heart attack at the weekend, doctors said. The 55-year-old was among several Kurdish activists who entered the Turkish parliament in 1991, including human rights award winner Leyla Zana. They lost their seats three years later for supporting armed Kurdish rebels fighting the government. (AFP)

Catholic priests and Islamic imams in Bosnia put their religious differences aside yesterday to play a charity football match, the first since a brutal 1992-95 war, organizers said. The aim of the match in the central town of Zenica was to gather funds for the local orphanage and also to strengthen relations between the two communities, priest Stipo Karajica said. «We wanted to spread the message of tolerance and common life on the field by our concrete example,» he told AFP. By the final whistle, his outfit had beaten the imams by 2 goals to 1. (AFP)