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| U.N. court says Karadzic responsible for Sarajevo siege | |  By Thomas Escritt and Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) - U.N. judges said on Thursday that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was ciminally responsible for the siege of Sarajevo and crimes against humanity in other towns and villages during the Bosnian war of the 1990s He was acquitted by The Hague tribunal of a first count of genocide in connection with the Bosnian municipalities, but judges have yet to rule on a second genocide charge - Karadzic's involvement in the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Europe's worst since World War Two, in which 8,000 Muslims died. Presiding judge O-Gon Kwon said the three-year Sarajevo siege, during which the city of Serbs, Muslims and Croats was shelled and sniped at by besieging Bosnian Serb forces, could not have happened without Karadzic's support.
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| After Islamic State bombings, Belgium hunts suspect caught on film | |  By Alastair Macdonald, Foo Yun Chee and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police were on Thursday hunting for a third man filmed with two Islamic State suicide bombers at Brussels airport as evidence piled up that the same jihadist network was involved in the deadly Paris attacks last November. With pressure mounting on Europe to improve cooperation against terrorism, EU interior and justice ministers were to hold emergency talks on a joint response to Tuesday's bombings in Brussels, which killed at least 31 people and injured hundreds. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls led calls for a "strong European response", but officials say many states, including France, withhold their most cherished data despite a mantra of willingness to share intelligence.
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| Russian race walker Kirdyapkin stripped of 2012 Olympic gold | |  Russian Sergey Kirdyapkin is set to be stripped of the 50-km walk gold medal he won at the 2012 London Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld an appeal by the IAAF against the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA). Two more Russian athletes are set to lose their London Games medals after the sport's governing body (IAAF) appealed on six cases where they said RUSADA had been "selective" in annulling previous results of the athletes after they were banned for irregularities in their biological passports.
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| Surviving Paris attacks suspect wants to return to "explain himself" - lawyer | |  Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in November's Paris attacks, will no longer fight extradition to France as he had vowed to do but instead now wants to return to "explain himself", his lawyer said on Thursday. Abdeslam, a French citizen, was arrested in Brussels on March 18 after a four-month manhunt in the wake of the Nov. 13 shooting and suicide bombing rampage by Islamic State militants that killed 130 people in Paris.
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| Bulgaria angered by U.S. embassy warning of threat to Sofia buses | |  The Bulgarian government on Thursday angrily dismissed a U.S. Embassy warning to its citizens to avoid a busy transport hub in the capital because of a potential threat against buses. Shortly afterwards, the embassy said it had withdrawn the warning, which came two days after Islamic State suicide bombers killed at least 31 people in Brussels. In a statement posted on Facebook late on Wednesday, the embassy had said it had received information about a "possible threat against an unspecified bus line or bus lines in the vicinity of Hotel Pliska", on one of Sofia's main boulevards.
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| Trump effigy takes an offal approach to celebrity for HK art show | |  U.S. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has been pilloried in many ways, over his bouffant hair, orange skin and supposedly small hands, but a British artist has now used raw pig and sheep parts to sculpt him for a Hong Kong art show. The Trump installation is a photograph of a human model wearing a blond bouffant hairpiece over a face constructed from a real pig snout and sheep eye balls. "I wanted to create a visual icon of the megalomania that has got to the point where his need for attention is overriding any kind of relationship or care for anyone else in the world," artist James Ostrer told Reuters.
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| Six Chinese nationals wounded in Laos bus shooting - Xinhua | | | Six Chinese nationals were wounded in a bus shooting in northern Laos on Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said, the latest flare-up of violence affecting Chinese in the country as Beijing extends its economic influence in Southeast Asia. The victims included passengers and drivers of the bus, which was travelling from Kunming, the capital of China's southwestern Yunnan province, to Vientiane, the Laotian capital, Xinhua quoted Chinese embassy officials as saying. The bus was shot at by unidentified gunmen on a road in Kasi, Vientiane province, Xinhua said. |
| BWF brings in life bans to ward off match-fixing fears | |  The Badminton World Federation (BWF) also made it an offence not to report knowledge of illegal betting or failure to cooperate with BWF investigations as it bids to avoid the plight of tennis, which has been rocked by match-fixing allegations. "BWF is committed to clean sport and this code is for everyone in badminton," BWF Secretary General Thomas Lund said in a statement. "We can demand interviews with anyone in the sport as well as ask those who are alleged to have committed offences to hand over items such as mobile phones, laptops, telephone records." Badminton was hit by a match-fixing scandal at the 2012 London Olympics when eight players, from China, South Korea and Indonesia, were kicked out of the women's doubles tournament for deliberately trying to lose matches.
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