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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Kosovo's new President Ibrahim Rugova is due to testify against Slobodan Milosevic on Friday, prosecutors at the Hague war crimes tribunal said on Wednesday. "He'll be the one on Friday -- that's the plan," Graham Blewitt, deputy prosecutor at the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, told Reuters. Rugova, who led a campaign of passive resistance by Kosovo's Albanian majority against Serb rule in the 1990s, said in February he would give evidence against the ex-Yugoslav leader, who is charged with crimes against humanity in the southern Serbian province in 1999. Milosevic, who has been...

BELGRADE, Apr 30, 2002 Deutsche Presse-Agentur The American businessman who imported nearly 150,000 Serbian "Yugo" cars into the United States is interested in renewing the business which already once drove him bankrupt, local media reported Tuesday in Belgrade. Yugo America Inc. folded in 1989, two years after the first contingent of cheap, little cars of poor reliability crossed the Atlantic. Zastava, which sold the Yugo in the U.S. for around 4,500 dollars, also came out with a loss from the "deal of the century", but claims to have drawn "valuable experience in building modern cars". And the founder of Yugo...

The Serbian Orthodox Church is charging the peacekeeping force in Bosnia with violently desecrating church property in its search for suspects wanted by the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. In an April 11 letter addressed to U.S. President Bush, Gen. John B. Sylvester, commander of the SFOR peacekeeping force in Bosnia, and Bosnian High Commissioner Wolfgang Petritsch, the Serbian Church protested the behavior of U.S.-led troops. Written by Serb Patriarch Pavle in the name of the Holy Synod of Bishops, the letter refers to "enormously unpleasant situations which the faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Church experienced on Feb. 28...

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- A rift within the country´s ruling coalition deepened Friday as the Yugoslav president rejected a demand by his archrival, the Serbian prime minister, to fire the military secret service chief at the center of a U.S. spy affair. The prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, has demanded that President Vojislav Kostunica remove Gen. Aca Tomic for failing to inform the Serbian government of an operation that resulted in a dramatic arrest last week of Djindjic´s deputy, Momcilo Perisic, and a senior U.S. diplomat. Djindjic has expressed outrage that the military intelligence service had followed and wiretapped his deputy for...

The Bush amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, rushed through the House Tuesday night, will undermine both the rule of law and the moral authority of the United States in the world. As the world knows, U.S. immigration laws are being daily mocked and violated. No one is certain exactly how many scofflaws and gate-crashers are here. Estimates run as high as 11 million – or as many illegal aliens in this country as there are people in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. With this vote to grant mass amnesty to hundreds of thousands from Mexico, the House...

Yugoslav partners sign historic deal The new country will be called ´Serbia and Montenegro´ Serbia and Montenegro have signed a landmark accord which will consign the name Yugoslavia to history and shelve Montenegro´s plans for independence. Under the deal, the two remaining partners in the Yugoslav Federation will become two semi-independent states, running their own economies, currencies and customs systems. According to the Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic, the new entity will be called "Serbia and Montenegro". He said it would retain a federal presidency, and a shared defence and foreign policy. The deal was reached under the mediation of...

B92, January 31, 2002 Concentration camp conditions in Strpce, say Serbs 11:40 STRPCE, Thursday - Ten thousand Serbs from the southern Kosovo Serb enclave of Strpce have been unable to leave the area for nine days because KFOR has refused to provide escorts for convoys travelling either to Serbia or to Macedonia. International peacekeepers are withholding the escorts until the majority Serb population allows the UNMIK-appointed Albanian mayor to enter the local council building. UNMIK police have surrounded all Serb residential areas in the region throughout the nine-day standoff, as Serbs block Mayor Bahri Hiseni and his associates from entering ...