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22.05.2021 / 09:37

Cricket gear donation brings joy to migrants stuck in Bosnia

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Joyful cheers echoed through an asylum-seekers camp in Bosnia this week as dozens of teenagers and young men put their daily struggles aside for a game of cricket.

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Bosnia authorities move migrants to camp in northern town

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Bosnian police on Tuesday rounded up more than 200 migrants who were squatting in an abandoned building in a northern town in order to move them to a nearby tent camp.

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Bosnia Serbs honor controversial Nobel Literature winner

BANJA LUKA – BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Bosnian Serbs on Friday honored the controversial 2019 Nobel Literature Prize winner Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over Serb war crimes during the 1990s' wars in the Balkans.

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Struggling Bosnia sees infection surge in migrants, refugees

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Bosnia is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections among migrants and refugees living in its camps, as it struggles to cope with one of the Balkans' highest COVID-19 death and infection rates among the general population.

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As infections rise, Sarajevo's hospitals feel the pressure

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-As Bosnia faces soaring coronavirus infections, pressure has grown on hospitals in the capital of Sarajevo that have struggled with rising numbers of COVID-19 patients.

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Balkans feel abandoned as vaccinations kick off in Europe

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-When thousands of people across the European Union began rolling up their sleeves last month to get a coronavirus vaccination shot, one corner of the continent was left behind, feeling isolated and abandoned: the Balkans.

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Bosnian Serbs say icon given to Russian minister not stolen

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-An Orthodox icon presented to Russia's foreign minister had not been stolen from the Ukraine, the office of Bosnia's Serb leader said Tuesday, amid an international diplomatic spat over its origins.The presiding Serb member of Bosnia’s three-member presidency, Milorad Dodik, gifted the gilded icon to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov when he visited Bosnia on Dec. 14.

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Russia to give icon that sparked controversy back to Bosnia

MOSCOW – Russia said Saturday it will return an Orthodox icon presented to the Russian foreign minister in Bosnia, a gift that has triggered a protest from Ukraine.The presiding Serb member of Bosnia’s three-member presidency, Milorad Dodik, gave the icon to Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov when he visited Sarajevo earlier this week.

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'Big win for democracy': Bosnian city of Mostar gets a vote

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Irma Baralija is looking forward to Sunday, when she intends to vote and hopes win her race in the first local election in 12 years held in her hometown — the southern Bosnian city of Mostar. To make that possible, the 36-year-old Baralija had to sue her country in the European Court of Human Rights for letting a stalemate between two major nationalist political parties in Bosnia prevent her, along about 100,000 other Mostar residents, from voting or running in a municipal election for over a decade.

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Air pollution in eastern Europe adds to pandemic health woes

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-With the arrival of cold and foggy winter weather amid the pandemic, eastern Europe is facing an extra respiratory health hazard — air pollution. Countries such as Bosnia and Serbia in the Balkans, and even European Union nations Poland and Croatia, traditionally report high levels of dangerous pollution from heating in winter months.

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Bosnia marks 25 years since inking of US-brokered peace deal

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-As their ethnic leaders gathered around a table outside Dayton, Ohio, to initial a U.S.-brokered peace deal a quarter-century ago, Edisa Sehic and Janko Samoukovic still were enemies in a war in Bosnia that killed over 100,000 people.But the two, one an ethnic Bosniak woman and the other an ethnic Serb man, have often come together in recent years to visit schools and town halls where they talk about the futility of war from their first-hand experiences. In many ways, Bosnia today is a country at peace, a testament to the success of the Dayton Accords, which ended more than 3 1/2 years of bloodshed when they were endorsed 25 years ago on Saturday.

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Bosnia doctors appeal for respect of rules amid virus surge

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Doctors in Bosnia, one of the hardest-hit countries in the Balkans with the new coronavirus, are appealing to citizens to respect preventive measures to help the ailing health system.As Bosnia battles a surge in infections and a mounting death toll, authorities have converted one third of all hospital wards to treat COVID-19 patients.The impoverished country has one of the weakest health systems in Europe that was ravaged during the 1992-95 war and further plagued by mismanagement, lack of funds and corruption. Authorities on Thursday reported more than 1,000 new infections in the nation of 3.5 million people while 64 people died in the past 24 hours.

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Michael Winterbottom, Fremantle Ink Deal With Boris Johnson COVID Drama as First Project

BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom and his Revolution Films production company have signed an exclusive first-look deal with TV giant Fremantle. The deal — done in collaboration with Richard Brown and his Passenger banner —will see Winterbottom, best known for film and series such as Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, The Trip and recent satire Greed and his regular collaborations with Steve Coogan, develop and produce scripted series and films with Fremantle co-producing and distributing the projects worldwide.

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Opposition parties win major cities in Bosnia's local vote

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Opposition candidates have won council seats and mayoral posts in Bosnia’s biggest cities, dealing a painful blow to the long-entrenched nationalists in nationwide municipal elections held amid a major surge in coronavirus infections and deaths. Riding a wave of dissatisfaction with how nationalist and right-wing parties are handling the pandemic, moderates took power in the capital, Sarajevo, and the biggest Serb-run town, Banja Luka, as well as in other bigger cities across the country, according to preliminary results released Monday.

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Bosnians vote in local elections overshadowed by pandemic

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Bosnians voted Sunday in nationwide municipal elections amid concerns that the turnout will be hurt by a major surge in coronavirus infections and deaths. Some 3 million people were eligible to vote in the small Balkan nation, which has been uneasily split between its three main ethnic groups — Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims — since the end of the 1992-95 war.

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UN official: Bosnia authorities expose migrants to suffering

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-With harsh weather fast approaching, the number of migrants and refugees who are sleeping rough in Bosnia keeps rising because of the persistent refusal by authorities at different levels of government in the country to coordinate their work and embrace “rational” solutions, a U.N. migration official said Thursday.Peter Van der Auweraert, the Western Balkans coordinator and Bosnia representative of the International Organization for Migration, told The Associated Press that instead of helping the U.N.

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Bosnian Serbs honor late ex-official convicted of war crimes

SARAJEVO – SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Bosnian Serb authorities on Wednesday held an official commemoration for a top former wartime leader, despite his war crimes conviction by a U.N. court.

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Bosnia: Officials, firm owner arrested over ventilator deal

SARAJEVO – Bosnian authorities have arrested two high-ranking state officials and the owner of a private company which imported 100 ventilators from China that were found to be useless for COVID-19 patients.

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Bosnians protest Mass in Sarajevo for Nazi-allied soldiers

SARAJEVO – Thousands of Bosnians demonstrated Saturday against a Catholic Mass commemorating Croatian Nazi-allied soldiers and civilians killed by partisan forces at the end of World War II.

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'A sniper shot my playmates': Real Housewife Nermina describes the horrors of her war child past

She's an impeccably glamorous WAG married to footballer Erik Pieters with a gorgeous home in Cheshire, but while growing up in Bosnia's wartorn Sarajevo Nermina Pieters-Mekic witnessed devastating death and destruction.

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