The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Sarajevo - Bosnian health authorities on Monday reported the country's first swine flu fatality, a 40-year-old man who succumbed to the illness, local media reported. The man was admitted to a hospital in Mostar town with severe pneumonia. His condit...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Sarajevo - See you in Zenica, a front page headline said Sunday following Bosnia's unfortunate 1-0 defeat in Portugal in the first leg off World Cup qualifications play-off. I never saw more misfortune, the national team coach, Croat Miroslav B...
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Petkovic war crimes trial hears justification for ordering soldiers into neighbouring country. By Velma Saric in Sarajevo (TU No 624, 13-Nov-09)
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Bulgarian mafia, together with one of the most prominent members of an Albanian crime gang in Sarajevo, is reported to be masterminding an attack against Bosnian journalist Bakir Hadzhiomerovic. Two crime bosses from Bulgaria and one from Albania has been plotting the murder of Bakir Hadzhiomerovic for a long time, according to a report of the federal TV channel of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Due to his...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sarajevo - A court in Banja Luka ruled as unfounded the demands of Bosnia's Islamic Community that the city pay 64.7 million convertible marks (48 million dollars) as compensation for mosques destroyed during the 1992-95 Bosnia war, local media repor...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sarajevo- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday in Sarajevo that the office of the international representative in Bosnia should be closed or transformed to give local authorities greater decision-making authority. Lavrov in Bosnia on ...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sven Alkalaj said the country is ready to cooperate with Russia in all spheres and called for Moscow to develop economic ties with Sarajevo.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Former Serb army commander Predrag Kujundzic was convicted of crimes against humanity -- including murder and rape -- by Bosnia's war crimes court on Friday and sentenced to 22 years in jail.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Belgrade/Sarajevo - The early release of the former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic has unleashed criticism in both Bosnia and Serbia, but official circles in Serbia have remained silent. Plavsic, 79, was flown on Tuesday from Sweden, where sh...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
To Croat children, he is Dred Božinjak, Father Christmas. To Serb children, he is Božik Bata, Christmas Friend. And to Bosnian Muslim children, he has been, for the last fifty years, Deda Mraz, Grandfather Frost, who comes round to schools and distributes presents. But not from last year. So not this or any other year, either. Or, at least, not in the state schools of Sarajevo for this white-bearded...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Sarajevo - The Srebrenica Massacre in July 1995 is regarded as the worst atrocity committed in Europe since the Second World War. The Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, deep inside the mostly-Serb territory in eastern Bosnia, had been under prolonged sieg...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Sarajevo - A second round of talks between Bosnian leaders on a constitutional reform proposed by the West to end a long-lasting blockade of the country concluded Tuesday afternoon with no concrete results, but the parties agreed to continue discussi...
LOST Media Mentions (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Thanks to Moyra for the heads up. On Monday, October 19, Danis Tanovic, the Oscar-winning director from Bosnia and Herzegovina, will start shooting his new movie, Circus Columbia. The movie will be filmed in the city of Capljina, in Herzegovina, where a pre-shoot press conference was held today. The film is based on a book by Ivica Djikic, a Croatian author born in Herzegovina. The main roles have...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's leaders should use the momentum of a serious Western engagement to agree reforms that will speed up the country's integration into the European Union and NATO, a senior U.S. diplomat said.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's war crimes court jailed a former Serb officer for 30 years on Friday on a charge of genocide for killing dozens of people during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Muslims.
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