Newspaper won't face charges for cartoons

COPENHAGEN - Denmark's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he will not press charges against the newspaper that first published the Prophet Muhammad drawings that triggered deadly protests by Muslims worldwide.

The prosecutor's ruling prompted the Foreign Ministry to upgrade its travel warnings for Muslim countries from Algeria to Malaysia.

Director of Public Prosecutions Henning Fode upheld the decision of a regional prosecutor, who said the drawings published in Jyllands-Posten on Sept. 30 did not violate Danish bans on racist and blasphemous speech.

NETHERLANDS

Bosnians convicted

of Balkan war crimes

AMSTERDAM - Two Bosnian Muslim army commanders were convicted of war crimes Wednesday for failing to rein in foreign Muslim volunteers who murdered and tortured Bosnian Croats and Serbs in a 1990s ''holy war.''

The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague sentenced former Bosnian army chief of staff Enver Hadzihasanovic to five years in prison and his deputy, Amir Kubura, to 2 1/2 years. It was the first time the tribunal dealt with the mujahedeen, or holy warriors, who came mainly from North Africa and the Middle East to fight on the Muslim side in the 1992-95 Bosnian.

Supporters cry and touch the hearse bearing the coffin of late Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic after its arrival at Belgrade airport, Wednesday, March 15, 2006. Milosvic died on March 11 in his prison cell in The Hague and will be burried in his home town of Pozarevac about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southeast of Belgrade on Saturday.

SERBIA-MONTENEGRO

Milosevic's body

back home for burial

BELGRADE - The body of Slobodan Milosevic returned home Wednesday to a low-key welcome, with baggage handlers unceremoniously removing the former president's casket from a jetliner's cargo hold after a slew of suitcases.

But some diehards who stood in the cold and snow flurries greeted his coffin with tears, kisses and wailing, reflecting the divisive emotions that Milosevic can still muster, even in death.

Milosevic died last weekend at a U.N. detention center in the Netherlands near the war crimes tribunal that was trying him on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. He will be buried Saturday in the grounds of the family estate in the industrial town of Pozarevac, about 30 miles southeast of Belgrade, an official of Milosevic's Socialist Party said.