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Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic given 40 years imprisonment

​Radovan Karadzic has been sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) here Thursday.

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Russia vetoes Srebrenica commemoration draft resolution over "genocide"

​Russia on Wednesday vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution commemorating the 20th anniversary of the slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Serb Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, a UN "safe area," citing the term "genocide" used in the document in describing the mass slaying as the reason for doing so.