Kosovo's ex-president Thaci pleads not guilty to war crimes in The Hague trial.

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants have pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court in The Hague. The charges relate to the 1998-99 insurgency that led to Kosovo's independence from Serbia. Thaci and the other defendants, all former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, are accused of targeting political opponents, as well as minority ethnic Serbs and Roma, imprisoning hundreds across Kosovo in terrible conditions and murdering 102 of them. The trial is expected to last for years.