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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro – A senior Bosnian Serb general indicted for genocide in the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica (search) is to surrender to the U.N. war crimes tribunal, the Serbian government said Sunday. Vinko Pandurevic (search), a top fugitive since the end of the …

KABUL, Afghanistan – In a landmark for the U.N.-backed campaign to disarm Afghanistan’s warlords, the last heavy weapons have been collected from the former stronghold of the anti-Taliban resistance in the Panjshir Valley (search), officials said Sunday. The countrywide disarmament drive, which also aims to get 60,000 militiamen to turn …

Reaction to President Bush’s nomination of John R. Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations: — “At a time when President Bush has recognized we need to begin repairing our damaged relations with the rest of the world, he nominates someone with a long history of being opposed …