1.   A Croat youth who killed an elderly Serb couple in a formerly Serb-held area of Croatia was apprehended and will be charged, police said Thursday.

2.   An OSCE fact-finding team that visited the formerly Serb-held areas last October recommended that a permanent human rights mission be established there.

3.   But most have left other formerly Serb-held areas that the Croatian army recaptured during blitz offensives in May and August.

4.   Croatian officials appealed to Western governments on Thursday to help finance reconstruction of the war-torn, formerly Serb-held region of Eastern Slavonia.

5.   Five bodies were exhumed from a mass grave located in woods in a formerly Serb-held town in southeast Croatia bordering Bosnia, media reported Tuesday.

6.   He said Muslims threaten, beat, rob and vandalize the property of Serbs in formerly Serb-held areas around Sarajevo.

7.   His government has been reluctant to welcome Serbs back and has been settling Croat refugees from Serb-held parts of neighboring Bosnia in formerly Serb-held areas.

8.   Hundreds applauded as a new sign went up proclaiming the formerly Serb-held police building a federation police station.

9.   In formerly Serb-held central Croatia, Croats were taking over deserted Serb houses, Gunness said.

10.   International observers are afraid that violent incidents could increase as thousands of Croat refugees are planning to return to formerly Serb-held land.