Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared before a U.N. war crimes judge for the first time on Thursday (July 31) to answer genocide charges.

Karadzic, who was arrested last week after more than a decade on the run, faces war crimes charges, including two counts of genocide over the 43-month siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica.

The leader of Bosnian Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnia war is the most prominent Balkan war crimes suspect arrested since late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in detention in 2006 before his trial ended.

Helen Long reports.

Der 83 Jährige sah schwächer als zuletzt aus, während er im Rollstuhl aus einem New York Krankenhaus geschoben wurde. Sein Gesicht verbarg er unter einer Baseballmütze und Sonnenbrille.

Gerüchte behaupten Oscar Preisträger leidet unter Krebs.

Newman hat es abgelehnt dazu Stellung zu nehmen, meinte nur “es gehe im gut”.

AE Hotchner, Newmans langjähriger Freund sagte vor einigen Monaten, dass  der Schauspieler „eine Form von Krebs” habe und fügten hinzu: „Paul ist ein Kämpfer. Jeder ist hoffnugsvoll,  das ist alles was wir wissen. „

Später  behauptete Hotchner er war falsch zitiert worden und beharrte: „Ich habe kein Wissen über mögliche Diagnosen”

Newman beendete seine Schauspieler Karriere letztes Jahr mit der Erklärung: „Ich habe es für 50 Jahre getan. Das ist genug. Ich bin nicht mehr  in der Lage, als Schauspieler auf dem Niveau zu arbeiten, wie ich mir das wünschen würde. Man verliert das Gedächtnis, das Vertrauen und die Kreativität.

Seine letzte große Filmrolle war 2002 in dem Sam Mendes Drama, Road To Perdition, die ihm eine Oscar-Nominierung für den besten Nebendarsteller brachte.

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Wie der mutmaßliche Kriegsverbrecher Radovan Karadzic heute aussieht zeigen Fotos auf der Internetseite Blic. Karadzic soll sich selbst rasiert und sich so seiner Identität als Wunderheiler entledigt haben.

Das Serbische Nachrichtenmagazin hat neben den Exclusivfotos auch einen aktuellen Bericht über die erste Befragung durch einen Richter des UNO-Kriegsverbrechertribunals in Den Haag, heute Donnerstagnachmittag . Bei der Anhörung unter Leitung des niederländischen Richters Alphons Orie sollte Karadzic gefragt werden, ob er auf schuldig oder nicht schuldig plädiert.
Eine Antwort muss er binnen 30 Tagen übermitteln. Der 63-Jährige muss sich wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Völkermordes während des Bosnien-Krieges verantworten.

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More than 100 non-aligned nations backed Iran’s right to peaceful uses of nuclear power on Wednesday, an endorsement sought by Tehran in its standoff with the U.N. Security Council over its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment. Senior Iranian officials depicted the support, coming from a high-level conference of the 120-nation Nonaligned Movement, as deflating claims by the U.S. and its allies that most of the international community wanted Iran to stop enrichment. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, Iran’s top representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the conference sends a “strong positive signal that the only way is negotiation and dialogue” over the nuclear standoff. “

RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 31 (Reuters): Israeli troops wounded nine Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Wednesday in a clash with protesters at the funeral of a 10-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics said. They said the Israelis shot the protesters with rubber bullets. A 21-year-old Palestinian was hit in the head and doctors described him as brain dead. A doctor at Ramallah hospital said the 21-year-old man was hit in the head by two steel-coated rubber bullets. The governor of Ramallah, Said Abu Ali, said an autopsy on the boy killed on Tuesday near the West Bank village of Nilin showed he had been shot in the head by live bullets. “There was a big hole in his head and we couldn’t save his life,” said a medic who was at the scene. He said the boy had been shot at close range. One demonstrator said the protest had begun peacefully, with several boys watching as Israeli bulldozers cleared land for the barrier. “After the bulldozers finished their work, a military jeep belonging to the border police pulled over and one soldier knelt down and aimed his rifle at us and shot at us.

Der italienische Radprofi Ricardo Ricco hat vor dem Nationalen Olympischen Komitee Italiens CONI eingestanden, kurz vor der Tour de France gedopt zu haben. Das berichtet die italienische Nachrichtenagentur Ansa. Ricco war nach der vierten Etappe positiv auf Epo getestet und von der Frankreich-Rundfahrt nach zwei Etappensiegen ausgeschlossen worden.

“Vor der Tour habe ich einen Fehler gemacht und die Substanz eingenommen, die wir alle kennen. Es war ein Fehler, den ich allein begangen habe”, sagte der 24-Jährige vom Team Saunier Duval, der von CONI-Chefermittler Ettore Torri in Anwesenheit seiner beiden Rechtsanwälte am Mittwoch vernommen worden war.

Die deutsche Lufthansa streicht wegen der Streiks in den nächsten fünf Tagen zehn Prozent ihrer Flüge im Deutschland- und Europa-Verkehr. Das sehe ein Sonderflugplan vor, teilte das Unternehmen heute mit. Ein neuer Flugplan für Interkontinentalflüge solle in Kürze folgen.

Franck Ribery vom deutschen Rekordmeister Bayern München wird voraussichtlich am Freitag erneut an seinem Syndesmoseband operiert. Wie nach dem ersten Eingriff vor rund sechs Wochen geplant, wird dem französischen Nationalspieler dabei eine Schraube entfernt, die das linke Fußgelenk stabilisiert. Ribery, der derzeit noch einen Gips trägt, soll Anfang oder Mitte September wieder fit sein.

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ATLANTA: Delta Air Lines Inc., the nation’s third-largest carrier, will double its charge for checking a second bag on a domestic flight as part of a set of fee increases to help offset the high cost of fuel.

The Atlanta-based carrier said Tuesday that the changes will apply to customers who purchase a ticket on or after Thursday for travel on or after Aug. 5.

Fee changes include an increase from $25 to $50 to check a second bag for domestic travel. Fees for specialty items that require special handling, such as surfboards or ski equipment, will increase on domestic and international flights, Delta said.

First Class, BusinessElite and Medallion customers will still be able to check up to three bags at no charge, the airline said.

Delta said that as fuel costs remain high, it believes revising its fee structure for excess bags and specialty items is essential to generate the necessary revenues to offset its higher costs.

Delta currently does not charge passengers for checking a first bag on domestic flights. It has said it is studying a decision by several other major carriers to impose that fee.

Delta customers checking bags on international flights can check a first and second bag at no charge.

Fees are for each extra bag, each way.

The fee for checking a third bag on a domestic flight will increase from $80 to $125, while the fee for checking a bag that is between 51 and 70 pounds on a domestic flight will rise from $80 to $90. On any flight checking a bag that is 62 inches to 80 inches of the total of its length plus its width plus its height will rise from $150 to $175.

Delta warned on its Web site that if a customer has an extra piece of baggage that goes over the weight limit and the size limit, the passenger will be charged three times - once for the extra bag, once for going over the size limit and once for going over the weight limit.

Source: International Herald Tribune

(IsraelNN.com) A preliminary IDF investigation has indicated that a Border Patrol policeman shot and killed an 11-year-old Arab boy at a separation barrier protest near the village of Naalin. A Palestinian Authority (PA) autopsy reported that the boy was shot by live fire, but PA officials have refused to allow Israel to examine the body.

Naalin has been the site of frequent demonstrations that have become increasingly violent. Following the latest incident, the IDF decided to deploy special units that are trained in riot control.

In a press statement distributed by the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement, Mousa’s physician, Dr. Ayman al-Anatee, said the boy had been dead when he arrived at the hospital at 6:45 p.m. There was “no pulse, no heart rate and no breathing and no reflexes at all. The pupils were fixed and dilated.

“On examination we found a small puncture wound to the front of the head, about one centimeter, and there was a large wound in the back of the head” where the bullet exited, Anatee said.

A mass demonstration is planned on Wednesday for the boy’s funeral. The procession and protest will start at Ramallah Hospital at 10am and make it’s way to Nil’in. The mourners intend to defy the military blockade on the town and bring Ahmed home.

Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, head of the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria, received permission from Palestinian Authority Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh to have an IDF doctor inspect the body to try to determine the circumstances of Mousa’s death.