Top story: Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general who was arrested yesterday by Serbian authorities for his role in the massacres committed during the Bosnian war, will be turned over to The Hague to face trial for war crimes.
Mladic is held responsible for the murder of approximately 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995. Serbian President Boris Tadic, in his remarks announcing Mladic's arrest and promising that he would be turned over to an international tribunal, said, "I think today we finished a difficult period in our recent history."
The arrest of Mladic, who had been a fugitive from justice for 15 years, clears a major obstacle to Serbia's accession to the European Union. EU members had insisted that Serbia bring the suspected war criminal to justice before its application for membership moved forward.
Approximately 500 Serbian nationalists took to the streets in a city in northern Serbia to condemn Mladic's capture, and a spokesman for an ultranationalist political party denounced the arrest as "shameful."
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Asia
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Pakistan will allow the CIA to examine Osama bin Laden's compound.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that there was no evidence senior Pakistani officials were aware of bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad.
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The nuclear reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant began melting down just hours after the March 11 earthquake, according to a Japanese nuclear engineer.
Middle East
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The United States and France reiterated their determination to "finish the job" in Libya.
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Libya's prime minister said for the first time that his government would be willing to negotiate with the rebels.
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Ali al-Lami, the head of Iraq's de-Baathification panel, was shot dead in eastern Baghdad.
Europe
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suspended automobile inspections for the rest of the year.
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Britain called on countries at the G-8 summit to provide foreign assistance to the Arab world.
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New details emerged on the circumstances behind the crash of Air France flight 447.
Americas
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Colombia has identified the remains of 10,000 people who disappeared during its civil war.
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North Korea will release a U.S. citizen held in captivity for six months.
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Over 230 people are missing after a tornado struck the city of Joplin, Missouri.
Africa
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150,000 people have fled the disputed province of Abyei, according to South Sudan's interior minister.
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South African President Jacob Zuma pledged to seek information on the location of South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl's remains while in Libya.
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Counter-terrorism analysts fear that al Qaeda has sleeper cells in West Africa.
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