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Excerpt - BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's ultranationalist Radical Party claimed victory in national elections on Sunday, in a voter rejection of Western appeals for closer cooperation on the arrest of war criminals and on Kosovo. A projection of the result showed the opposition Radicals, strongest party in Serbia for years, taking 28 percent of the vote, a point higher than the 2003 national elections. "The Radical Party has won these elections," said Tomislav Nikolic, the Radical's candidate for prime minister in the absence of party leader Vojislav Seselj, who is on trial for war crimes at the U.N. tribunal in...

Accused Serb Won't Plead to War Crimes Thu Feb 27, 2:46 AM ET By DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Writer THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Serbian ultranationalist politician and former paramilitary commander Vojislav Seselj refused to enter a plea Wednesday to charges that he incited his followers to murder, torture and plunder during the Balkan wars. The court allowed Seselj to delay his plea by up to 30 days after he claimed he needed clarification of terms in the indictment that he said were written in a language he did not understand. "I'm not at all in a hurry in these proceedings,"...