Radovan Karadžić

The Hague Tribunal has launched a medical investigation after war crimes defendant Radovan Karadzic claimed that cancer and other malignant diseases were rife in the UN detention unit.

Jovan Tintor, a high-ranking wartime politician and former adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, was charged with committing crimes against humanity against Bosniaks and Croats in 1992.

In a bid to unify and strengthen the embattled opposition Bosnian Serb party after its defeat in recent local elections, an extraordinary assembly of the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, on Sunday unanimously elected Vukota Govedarica as the new chief.

Bosnians in the mainly Bosniak [Muslim] city of Sarajevo rallied in support of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Saturday - while a self-styled "parody" rally in support of Republican candidate Donald Trump took place in Serb-dominated Eastern Sarajevo, a few kilometres away.

Bosnia's Constitutional Court on Saturday approved a temporary ban on the controversial referendum because it said the vote challenges a decision made by the state-level institution, which it argued that Republika Srpska does not have the authority to do.

The Hague Tribunal refused to consider a motion filed by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence asking for the trial to be stopped because the court was systematically biased.

According to German daily Die Zeit, Hague convict Radovan Karadzic has said it was his mistake to prevent the army from achieving even more in the battlefield.

A petition has been launched in Montenegro urging the authorities to revoke a literary award given to former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in 1993.

Dodik said on Friday that the referendum would only be cancelled if the Bosnia's state-level Constitutional Court reversed its ruling that the entity's annual statehood celebration, the Day of Republika Srpska on January 9, was unconstitutional.

The UN war crimes court has granted $508,797 for the preparation of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s appeal against his conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity.