SARAJEVO: A Bosnian court on Monday jailed a Bosnian Serb for 15 years for the killing of five Muslims during the Balkan nation&#39;s 1990s war. Dusko Zoric, a 55-year-old extradited by Germany last year, was found guilty by Bosnia&#39;s state court of crimes against humanity during the 1992-95 conflict, which left about 100,000 people dead. At least 69 Bosnian Muslims, half of them women and children, were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in the village of Zecovi, near Prijedor, a Bosnian Serb-majority city, in July 1992. Prijedor is notorious for the creation of the Omarska, Keraterm and Trnopolje detention camps -- collectively known as the &quot;Triangle of Horror&quot; -- where around 6,000 people, mainly Bosnian Muslims and Croatians -- were killed by Bosnian forces between April and August 1992. Judge Saban Maksumic said the five men killed by Zoric had just been arrested in their homes in the village. The defendant, who was 21 at the time, killed them with an automatic rifle on a roadside. Maksumic said Zoric&#39;s involvement had been proved &quot;beyond all reasonable doubt&quot;. Zoric was acquitted however of charges of taking part in the killing two days later of about 30 women and children who were hiding in two houses in Zecovi. A survivor of the massacre, aged 15 at the time, identified Zoric, but the judge said there was no definitive proof. Five other Bosnian Serbs were jailed for between five and 20 years in 2023 for the massacre.

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Bosnia’s state court sentenced Bosnian Serb Dusko Zoric to 15 years for killing five Muslim men during the 1992 Zecovi massacre near Prijedor.

Bosnian Serb jailed for wartime killing of Muslims

OAKLAND, US: Elon Musk&#39;s lawsuit accusing high-profile artificial intelligence company OpenAI of betraying its non-profit mission heads for trial on Monday with the selection of jurors. The legal clash in a courtroom across the bay from San Francisco pits the world&#39;s richest person against a startup Musk once backed and now competes with in the booming AI sector. OpenAI&#39;s ChatGPT is a formidable rival to the chatbot Grok, made by Musk&#39;s xAI lab. While Musk&#39;s lawsuit is part of a feud between him and OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, it spotlights a debate as to whether AI should ultimately serve to benefit a privileged few or society as a whole. Court filings lay out how Altman convinced Musk to back OpenAI in 2015, acting as a co-founder for a non-profit lab whose technology &quot;would belong to the world.&quot; Musk pumped millions of dollars into the lab, which he subsequently left. However, OpenAI established a commercial subsidiary as it needed hundreds of billions of dollars for data centers to power its technology. Microsoft has poured billions of dollars into OpenAI and its CEO Satya Nadella is among those slated to testify at the trial. Musk argues in his lawsuit that he was deceived about OpenAI&#39;s mission being altruistic. San Francisco-based OpenAI has countered in court filings that its break-up with Musk was due to his quest for absolute control rather than its nonprofit status. &quot;This case has always been about Elon generating more power and more money for what he wants,&quot; OpenAI said in a recent X post. &quot;His lawsuit remains nothing more than a harassment campaign that&#39;s driven by ego, jealousy and a desire to slow down a competitor.&quot; The startup noted that days after Musk entered the AI race in 2023 he called for a six-month moratorium on development of advanced AI. The judge presiding over the trial will decide by mid-May -- guided by an advisory jury&#39;s findings -- whether OpenAI broke a promise to Musk in a drive to lead in AI or just smartly rode the technology to glory. Along with calling for OpenAI to be forced to revert to a pure nonprofit, Musk&#39;s suit urges the ouster of Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman, who is startup president. Musk, who had sought as much as $134 billion in damages, has since renounced any personal benefit, pledging to redirect any award to the OpenAI nonprofit. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has reserved the right to determine any remedies herself, without the jury&rsquo;s input. OpenAI now has a hybrid governance structure giving its nonprofit foundation control over a for-profit arm. Musk, who gutted the trust and safety team at Twitter after buying the social media platform that he renamed X, faces the challenge of convincing a jury and a judge that the company behind ChatGPT was built on a lie.

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Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial, accusing the ChatGPT maker of abandoning its nonprofit mission, while OpenAI says Musk’s case is driven by rivalry, ego and control.

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Bosnian Serb jailed for wartime killing of Muslims

Stage set for Elon Musk's court battle with OpenAI