A UN tribunal sentenced (NYT) two former high-ranking Serbian security officials to twelve years in prison for abetting war crimes in the Balkans conflicts of the 1990s. It is the closing case for the tribunal devoted to the conflicts and marks the first time top Serbian officials were linked to such crimes in neighboring countries.
Scheffer looks at the conviction of Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, another perpetrator of atrocities during the Balkans conflicts.
UK: The European Commission and the United Kingdom agreed to postpone a ban (DW) on the sale of some meat products in Northern Ireland for three months, calling a temporary truce on a long-running dispute related to Brexit.
