Bosnia Herzegovina

EU leaders grant Bosnia EU candidate status

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to make Bosnia and Herzegovina a formal candidate to join the bloc of 27 nations. "Bosnia and Herzegovina was granted the…

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EU’s von der Leyen: proposed candidate status for Bosnia and Herzegovina

BRUSSELS, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The EU has proposed to grant candidate status to Bosnia and Herzegovina, EU's Ursula Von der Leyen said on Wednesday at the EU Ambassadors Conference…

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UPDATE – Polls close as Bosnians choose between nationalists and reformists

Polls close as Bosnians choose between 'old and 'new' 35% of voters turned out by 3 p.m (1300 GMT) Election authorities say vote proceeded well By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO, Oct…

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Photo Story: The victims of the Srebrenica genocide remembered

A Bosnian Muslim woman visits gravestones during a funeral ceremony for fifty newly-identified Bosnian Muslim victims, at the Potocari Memorial Center and Cemetery in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11 July…

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Bosnia calls October 2 election

SARAJEVO, May 4 (Reuters) - Bosnia will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Oct. 2, the electoral commission said on Wednesday, although rival ethnic leaders have failed to agree on…

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One killed, several injured in Bosnia quake

SARAJEVO, April 23 (Reuters) - One person was killed and several injured after a magnitude 5.6 quake hit southern Bosnia on Friday night followed by a series of smaller aftershocks,…

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Germany’s Baerbock stresses need to bring Bosnia closer to Europe

SARAJEVO, March 10 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Germany and Bosnia-Herzegovina needed to work most closely and intensively on the issue of bringing the Balkan country closer…

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EU must act to avoid Bosnia ‘falling apart’, Borrell says

BRUSSELS, Feb 21 (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels must take decisions to stop a "critical" crisis in Bosnia becoming worse, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell…

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Bosnian Croats say may push for own region

Bosnian Croat nationalists said on Saturday they could launch a political process to form their own region in Bosnia unless an election law is changed in a way that bolsters…

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Bosnia risks entering legal and institutional vacuum -corruption watchdog

Bosnia ranks as the third worst country in Europe on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and is at risk of entering a legal and institutional vacuum which could threaten the…

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Serbian president stresses unity, peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Amid ongoing political tensions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that no one in the region is interested in war. In an interview with Pink TV on Saturday…

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Serbs vote to start quitting Bosnia’s key institutions in secessionist move

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Serb lawmakers voted on Friday to start work on pulling their autonomous Serb Republic out of Bosnia's armed forces, judiciary and tax system,…

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Bosnia’s Mladic, commander of Europe’s worst atrocities since World War Two

Ratko Mladic was dubbed the "Butcher of Bosnia" for terrorising the capital Sarajevo with a 43-month siege and presiding over the 1995 massacre of up to 8,000 Muslims in a…

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Sarajevo struggles with record number of deaths from COVID-19

The Bosnian capital has been hit by record number of deaths from COVID-19 in March, prompting hospitals to warn of a lack of capacity for a rising number of patients…

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EU allocates additional €3.5 million to support vulnerable refugees and migrants

The European Commission has announced today an additional €3.5 million in humanitarian aid to help vulnerable refugees and migrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina facing a humanitarian disaster. More than 1,700 refugees and…

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Bosnia sets up tents for freezing migrants

Trying to resolve a humanitarian disaster, the Bosnian military set up tents Friday for hundreds of migrants who have been stuck in a burned-out refugee camp that has no facilities…

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In Bosnia’s Mostar, ethnic parties win 1st local vote in 12 years

Preliminary results from the first local election in 12 years in the Bosnian town of Mostar on Sunday showed most votes going to the Croat and Bosniak parties whose rivalry…

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EPA’s Eye in the Sky: Sarajevo, Bosnia

A general view of the surroundings of the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. With 164 AQI (Air Quality Index), Sarajevo is one of the polluted cities in the world.…

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25 years after peace deal, Bosnia endures division and stagnation

Mirsad Zahirovic is a university-educated journalist and activist who moonlights as a waiter because he is not a member of one of the ruling political parties, which is almost the…

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Local elections in Bosnia Herzegovina

A Red Cross volunteer (L) measures the temperature of women before entering the polling station during the local elections in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 15 November 2020. More than three…

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Bosnia’s coronavirus deaths pass 1,000 as cases in Montenegro rise

Deaths from the novel coronavirus in Bosnia passed a fresh threshold above 1,000 with 20 new fatalities reported on Tuesday, as the daily number of cases hit a new record…

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European Nations League Roundup

Italy were held by Bosnia-Herzegovina, Poland beaten by the Netherlands while the Czech Republic beat neighbours Slovakkia. This is a round up of the results of the matches held on…

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Remembering what humans can do to others… Srebrenica

A Bosnian Muslim woman mourns while touching a gravestone during a funeral ceremony at the Potocari Memorial Center and Cemetery, in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11 July 2020. The burial…

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25th Anniversary of Srebrenica Genocide

The funerals of nine people killed in the July 1995 genocide will be held on Saturday at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre as the 25th anniversary of the massacres of more…

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Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson made honorary citizen of Sarajevo

Bosnia’s capital has declared Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson an honorary citizen for the concert he performed while the city was under siege during the 1992-95 war. The award…

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Election Watch – Bosnia Herzegovina

Twenty-eight years after the end of its internecine war that left 100,000 dead, Bosnia-Herzegovina votes on Sunday to elect a bewildering number of national and sub-national presidencies, parliaments, and assemblies. Ethnic-nationalist parties…

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