Wanted Serbian fugitive caught, to be tried for war crimes
BELGRADE, Serbia - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused architect of massacres making him one of the world's top war crimes fugitives, was arrested on Monday evening in a sweep by Serbian security forces, the country's president and the U.N. tribunal said.
Karadzic is suspected of masterminding mass killings that the U.N. war crimes tribunal described as "scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history." They include the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe's worst slaughter since World War II.
"This is a very important day for the victims who have waited for this arrest for over a decade. It is also an important day for international justice because it clearly demonstrates that nobody is beyond the reach of the law and that sooner or later all fugitives will be brought to justice," said Serge Brammertz, the tribunal's head prosecutor.
President Boris Tadic's office said Karadzic has been taken before the investigative judge of Serbia's war crimes court - a legal procedure that indicates he would soon be extradited to the U.N. war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands.
Mugabe and rival agree to hold talks about power sharing
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Three months after the voting and violence began, Zimbabwe's embattled President Robert Mugabe and his bitter opposition rival agreed Monday to hold talks immediately about sharing power to end the country's political crisis.
But the rivals' first joint appearance in a decade did not bring relief to Zimbabweans grappling with the world's worst inflation.
Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai signed the breakthrough deal awgreeing in cautious language that they have an obligation to establish a framework of "working together in an inclusive government."
It commits them to creating a "genuine, viable, permanent and sustainable solution" within two weeks and calls on parties to "eliminate all forms of political violence."
The deal, following three months of state-sponsored electoral violence, was seen as a victory for the opposition and was similar in concept to the pact worked out between rivals to end ethnic and political violence in Kenya that killed more than 1,000 people earlier this year.
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