Yugo opposition rally in Milosevic home-town

The Yugoslav opposition alliance DOS has held an election campaign rally in the home town of the federal president, Slobodan Milosevic.

In May, they called off a gathering planned then because police had blocked the roads, detaining activists and independent journalists.

A crowd of about three hundred people heard speeches from several opposition leaders in what correspondents say is a stronghold of Mr Milosevic's ruling Socialist Party. A former ally of Mr Milosevic, Dobrica Cosic, regarded as the spiritual father of modern Serbian nationalism, has meanwhile given his support to the opposition presidential candidate, Vojislav Kostunica.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service