Bosnian forensic experts have completed their exhumation of a mass grave thought to contain dozens of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, prosecutors said Wednesday.

`Twenty-four skeletons and 238 detached human bones have been exhumed from the grave,` Jasna Subotic, spokeswoman for the prosecution office in the eatern city of Tuzla, told AFP.

Bosnian forensic experts have completed their exhumation of a mass grave thought to contain dozens of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, prosecutors said Wednesday.

`Twenty-four skeletons and 238 detached human bones have been exhumed from the grave,` Jasna Subotic, spokeswoman for the prosecution office in the eatern city of Tuzla, told AFP.

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Oct 22, 2007 (AFP) - The US ambassador to Bosnia on Monday warned Serbs against carrying out a boycott threat in protest at moves to strengthen the country's central institutions.

'The international community is hoping that politicians from (Bosnia's Serb entity of) Republika Srpska will not withdraw from Bosnia's institutions,' ambassador Charles English told the Nezavisne Novine daily.

'If that happens, there would be serious difficulties in the functioning of state institutions.

SARAJEVO, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - The top international envoy to Bosnia imposed measures Friday aiming to simplify government decision-making and stop rival ethnic camps from blocking new laws.

Miroslav Lajcak, the international High Representative to Bosnia, presented changes to the rules on a quorum required for the government to pass decisions and ordered parliament to change its rules on the quorum by December 1.

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Oct 18, 2007 (AFP) - The Bosnian Serb government ordered a wider campaign Thursday to unearth mass graves of victims of Serb forces during the country's 1992-1995 war.

The task of finding the sites was handed to the Bosnian Serb entity's interior ministry and police force, which were told to begin by forming working groups, Deputy Prime Minister Anton Kasipovic said.

VELSEN, The Netherlands, Oct 18, 2007 (AFP) - A treaty officially sanctioning the deployment of European troops to Bosnia later this year was signed by five contributing countries in the Netherlands on Thursday.

Some 140 para-military police from the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) will be deployed to Sarajevo to support the police mission already there, according to a European military source.

BRUSSELS, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - Serbian authorities have received 'tips' about former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic but have made no breakthrough in their search for him, a Serbian minister said Wednesday.

'There have been tips, information, but no result yet,' said Rasim Ljajic, the minister charged with cooperation with the UN war crimes court.

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - Former Dutch soldiers who failed to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica massacre made an emotional return Wednesday to the ill-fated Bosnian town to pay respects to victims and meet with survivors.

'I was here in July. Now I came to pay respect to the victims and to talk to you,' Boudewin Kok, one of the former UN peacekeepers, said in a meeting with survivors.

'I think that this should be the beginning of our joint search for some answers, including to why Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are still free.'

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - Former Dutch soldiers who failed to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica massacre returned to the ill-fated Bosnian town on Wednesday to pay respects to victims and meet with survivors.

'I was here in July. Now I came to pay respect to the victims and to talk to you,' Boudewin Kok, one of the former UN-mandated soldiers, said in a meeting with survivors.

'I think that this should be the beginning of our joint search for some answers.'

THE HAGUE, Oct 15, 2007 (AFP) - The UN war crimes court will hand down an appeals judgement Tuesday in the case of the Muslim-dominated Bosnian army's ex-chief of staff who was acquitted of murder charges in 2005.

Sefer Halilovic, 55, is one of the highest-ranking Bosnian Muslim officials to have appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.

The prosecution says Halilovic was responsible for the killings of Bosnian Croats by troops under his command in the villages of Uzdol and Grabovica in central Bosnia in 1993.