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PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — There were no tears of joy, just the confident smile of a winner when 18-year-old Miss Dominican Republic, Amelia Vega, was crowned Miss Universe 2003. "God has been my strength all along," the brunette told a news conference immediately after her triumph at a U.S. military base-turned-convention center. Cindy Nell, a South African tourism promoter, was the second runner up, followed by Miss Serbia and Montenegro Sanja Papic and Miss Japan Miyako Miyazaki. The event gave Panama a chance to promote its new image as a tourist destination after decades of living under the shadow...

Part 2 of 2 Milosevic revealed to the Captain that he was listed by the Prosecution 'as the protected witness B-073', which he never required himself and which triggered a lengthy discussion among the judges and amici as a practice of making a rule out of the exception and actually forcing the protected witness status onto the witnesses. Dragan also refused to sign a statement to the effect that what was said during the investigation or testimony can not be used against him. He confirmed to have received some EUR 4,000 towards his travelling expenses and the hotel accommodation, but...

The story of Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias Captain Dragan, is a very simple one: he went twice to Krajina, first time in April 1991 when he was under the command of the Krajina Police; in August he was expelled by Babic. The second time he went there after the Croats attacked UNPA zones (Miljevac Plateau), in a car with two other men and they put themselves at the disposal of the Krajina Army, because he 'couldn't calmly walk about the Belgrade streets while all that was happening'. His mission both times was to help train volunteers and to participate in combat...