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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A swirl of suspicion surrounded Slobodan Milosevic's death, with evidence emerging Monday that the former Yugoslav leader took medication he wasn't supposed to. Among the ...

THE BUTCHER of the Balkans is dead. Slobodan Milosevic, 64, died of an apparent heart attack Saturday in his jail cell at The Hague. There were ambiguities about his death -- perhaps linked to a ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Slobodan Milosevic’s death and the chaotic prosecution of Saddam Hussein underscore the need to streamline trials of ousted rulers to prevent them from stalling the proceedings and ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Slobodan Milosevic defied doctors’ orders to quit smoking and took unauthorized medication smuggled to him in prison, a U.N. war crimes tribunal report into his death said ...

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, the so-called "butcher of the Balkans" being tried for war crimes after orchestrating a decade of bloodshed that killed 250,000 ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - United Nations war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte said on Tuesday she was haunted by the quiet and sudden death of Slobodan Milosevic before he was sentenced. Her comments ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A swirl of suspicion surrounded Slobodan Milosevic's death, with evidence emerging Monday that the former Yugoslav leader took medication he wasn't supposed to.