Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has asked for temporary release from detention in The Hague to go for treatment in Russia because of a “potentially life-threatening condition”.

Defence and prosecution lawyers made their final comments in the trial of the former Bosnian Serb military commander for genocide and other wartime crimes and judges adjourned to start considering...

Prosecutors at Ratko Mladic’s trial rejected the defence’s closing arguments, insisting that the evidence proves that the former Bosnian Serb military commander is guilty of genocide and other wartime crimes.

On the final day of closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s trial in The Hague, defence lawyers urged the UN court to acquit the former Bosnian Serb Army commander of war...

In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial, the defence said claims that Bosnian Serb forces under his command indiscriminately shelled Sarajevo and sniped at civilians were a myth.

In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s trial, the defence said UN prosecutors did not prove the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s forces committed genocide in six Bosnian municipalities in 1992....

In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s trial, lawyers for the former Bosnian Serb military commander said he never ordered the Srebrenica mass killings and the case against him was systematically...

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia called on judges at the UN court to jail Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic for life for genocide and...

As closing statements continued at Ratko Mladic’s trial, prosecutors said the trial had proved that the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s forces terrorised Sarajevo with a shelling and sniping campaign.

On the second day of closing statements at Ratko Mladic’s trial, the prosecution said the former Bosnian Serb military chief praised and promoted officers involved in ethnic cleansing and murder.