Court denies bid for Milosevic autopsy in Moscow

THE HAGUE, March 11 (Reuters) The UN war crimes tribunal said today it had denied a request by Slobodan Milosevic's lawyer to have the autopsy of the former Yugoslavia president conducted in Moscow instead of The Hague.

A tribunal official also declined to comment on a claim by Milosevic's lawyer that he had been poisoned while in jail.

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