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Šešelj reveals he "won't return to Hague voluntarily"

BELGRADE -- The idea of a Greater Serbia remains the guiding idea of the Serb Radicals (SRS), the party's leader Vojislav Šešelj has told a news conference.

An Indian doctor who conducted mass sterilisations that killed 13 women has been taken into custody, after saying he was being made a scapegoat for a controversial family planning scheme.
      

LONDON - World number one Novak Djokovic defeated Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka 6-3 6-0 at the ATP Finals in London on Wednesday to get within reach of the semifinals of the tournament.

This puts Djokovic a step away from securing the top spot in the ATP rankings at the end of the season, since he needs one more victory to do this.

Hague prosecutor: No verdict before end of 2015

BELGRADE -- Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz has said that Hague indictee Vojislav Šešelj is "not the first person to be temporarily released."

A verdict in his trial "cannot be expected before the end of 2015," the prosecutor revealed.

Civil servants and institutions allegedly implicated in the murder of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink should be investigated, the Constitutional Court stated in its detailed ruling on the case on Nov. 12.

The top Turkish court said the case was not probed efficiently and the victim’s rights were violated, in a ruling issued last July.

"Šešelj is symbol of ethnic cleansing"

BELGRADE -- Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia President Sonja Biserko says SRS party leader Vojislav Šešelj is "a symbol of ethnic cleansing."

An ongoing inspection aimed at weeding out public sector employees who were hired on the basis of forged degree certificates or other fake qualifications has pointed to a Court of Audit department head.

The unnamed employee joined the court in 1987 and retired in April of this year at the age of 53 and just in time to avoid the civil servant crackdown, Kathimerini understands.

The operating manager of the coal mine where 18 miners were trapped due to flooded water has said they measured the content of the leaked water inside the mine by “tasting” it, while five people including the operating manager were arrested.

Boljkovac died in hospital on Monday in Karlovac in central Croatia after being ill for several months.

He was born in Vukova Gorica near Karlovac in 1920 and was an active member of the anti-fascist movement in the area before World War II.

By the end of the war he had become the local chief of the Yugoslav secret service, OZNA, in Karlovac.

A Patra court on Tuesday found four out of five defendants facing charges over forest fires that broke out in Ileia in the Peloponnese in August 2007 guilty. The blazes claimed the lives of 36 people.