Belgrade  - Although the killers of Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic have been convicted, the political motivation behind the assassination six years ago remains murky, the Belgrade daily Press said Thursday.

A pro-western reformist, Djindjic was killed on March 12, 2003 by a sniper in a conspiracy of rogue policemen and organized crime.

Belgrade  - Serbia's most wanted war crime suspect, Ratko Mladic, has been hiding in a Belgrade apartment for a number of years, the Press daily said Monday quoting police sources.

The newspaper said Mladic, a Serb general wanted by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on charges of genocide, maintains contact with only one person, who brings food and medication to the flat in a Belgrade suburb, the paper said.

Constanta/Belgrade - The lady in orange lowered her camera - "We've come too late," she sighed.

It was 8.30 am on a bright morning in the Danube delta, the sunshine already so hot that the birds - pelicans, great white egrets and spoonbills - crouched in the shade and were hard to photograph. They took flight only when the wash from the boat threatened to swamp their resting places.

Before emptying into the Black Sea, the Danube River branches into an enchanting wetland of lakes, streams and channels where reed belts, water-lily ponds and sand dunes alternate with woods. A UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, the Danube delta has been declared a "biosphere reservation" by the United Nations' cultural body.

Belgrade  - The late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who died while on a genocide trial at the United Nations war crimes tribunal, was "the hero of all heroes," a government minister was quoted as saying by Monday's press in Belgrade.

"Of course he's the greatest hero. The verdicts against heroes who defended their country are shameful - and how a country is defended was shown best by Milosevic, the whole world saw that," the daily Blic quoted the Infrastructure Minister Milutin Mrkonjic.

Belgrade  - Some have set themselves on fire in public and some have blown themselves up with hand grenades: many veterans from the Balkan wars saw suicide as the only way out of their misery.

And many will continue to do so - even though experts say more care could change that.

"Many soldiers' experiences are so extreme that they are unable to communicate them to others once they return from the frontline," says German expert Ursula Renner.

Renner, of the Bonn-based Forum Civil Peace Service, works with veterans in Croatia, which fought a bitter war against the Yugoslav army and Serb insurgents 1991-95.

Belgrade - Serbia has launched a probe into alleged atrocities against the former Yugoslav army in Bosnia and issued arrest warrants against 19 people, including former top Muslim and Croat leaders in Sarajevo, officials said Thursday.

A spokeswoman for the Serbian war crimes prosecutor, Ivana Ramic, confirmed for radio B92 that an investigation was underway against people suspected of committing war crimes early in the 1992-95 conflict, but refused to provide details.

The suspects allegedly committed war crimes against prisoners and using banned means of combat.

Declining to provide more details, Ramic only named an ambush on an army column in Sarajevo which left 42 soldiers, mostly conscripts, dead and more than 70 wounded in May 1992.