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BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Huge hunt fails to find Karadzic

BRATUNAC — Bosnian Serb police, under Western pressure to arrest one of the world’s most-wanted men, said they failed to find war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic in a large-scale operation yesterday.

The force said it had received information that the wartime Bosnian Serb leader, wanted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, was near the town of Bratunac, in a hard-line nationalist region bordering Serbia.

But the daylong operation failed to net the 58-year-old, accused of genocide against Muslims during the 1992-95 Bosnian war but still a hero to many Serbian nationalists.

IRAQ

West Bank burial for Abbas sought

RAMALLAH, West Bank — U.S. forces in Iraq have agreed to hand over the body of Palestinian militant leader Abul Abbas for burial in the West Bank, Palestinian Communications Minister Azzam Ahmed said yesterday.

Abbas, whose given name was Mohammed Abbas, died Monday in U.S. custody in Iraq, where he was captured last April. He was known for leading the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro passenger ship in which a wheelchair-bound Jewish American tourist, Leon Klinghoffer, was killed and thrown overboard.

The Palestinians are still waiting for permission from Israel, which controls border crossings into the West Bank.

SYRIA

Riots, soccer clash leave 14 dead

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