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Amazing heroism behind Eurovision star who dodged bullets to sing on show

Muhamed Fazlagić and his band escaped bullets on a frozen mountain to get to the Eurovision Song Contest, which Bosnia Herzegovina entered for the very first time in 1993

Daily Mirror

Serbs stage pro-Russia marches amid V-Day ceremonies

Pro-Russia marches have been staged in Serbia and the Serb-run entity in Bosnia — both traditional allies of Moscow in the Balkans — amid ceremonies to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II

The Independent UK

Berlin says it will work for EUFOR Bosnia extension amid Russia concerns

Germany will work for an extension of the EU's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia as concerns mount about instability spilling over from the Ukraine war, but has not yet decided whether to provide troops, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said.

Reuters

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Bosnia calls Oct 2 election despite rows over electoral reform, funding

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 electoral reforms and the government has still not secured funding for the vote.

Reuters

‘If you don’t have a witness, you don’t have a crime’ says French photojournalist Patrick Chauvel

French photojournalist and war photographer Patrick Chauvel has covered over thirty conflicts, from Vietnam to Bosnia and Iraq – and now Ukraine. He explains how his early appetite for adventure soon evolved into an impulse that would go on to shape his life profoundly: a desire to tell the stories…

France 24

Sarajevo court charges Bosniak ex-leaders with war crimes

Ten people have been charged for their alleged role in the killing of retreating Yugoslav army soldiers in 1992.

Al Jazeera

One killed, several injured in Bosnia quake

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, officials and media reported on Saturday.

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Deadly earthquake hits Bosnia causing hundreds to flee homes

The magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit 26 miles south-east of the city of Mostar

Evening Standard

Novak Djokovic condemns Wimbledon’s ban on Russian tennis players

London-based tennis tournament announced the player ban in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Russia suspends financing of Bosnia peace envoy's office

Russia said on Tuesday it has suspended its financing of the Office of the High Representative to Bosnia, a body set up to help the war-ravaged Balkan country establish political stability, because Moscow regards the current envoy to be illegally appointed.

Reuters

Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It's a long journey to justice

Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process

The Independent UK

Commentary: Putin may not worry he will ever face justice, but recent history shows he should

The grotesque images of civilians being slaughtered in Ukraine echo the horrors I witnessed covering the war in Bosnia three decades ago, and President Joe Biden was right to use the word “genocide” to describe the mass murder Russia is committing in Ukraine.

Chicago Tribune

Bosnia-Herzegovina could be the next site of Russian-fuelled conflict

International politics is usually discussed in terms of historical periods associated with specific characteristics — think Cold War adversaries, wars fought for ostensibly humanitarian reasons in the 1990s or the focus on terrorism and state-building during the War on Terror.

The Conversation

Civilian Executions Are Not the Only Layer of Hell

Though confronted with the depth of human depravity, I never felt true desperation during my time in Bosnia. It is the wanton destruction in Ukraine that is impossible to stomach.

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Sarajevo siege survivor: War in Ukraine has 'revived trauma from the past'

An author who escaped the siege of Sarajevo in Bosnia in the mid-1990s has told FRANCE 24 how the war in Ukraine has brought many of his terrible memories back. Semezdin Mehmedinovic made it out of Sarajevo to the US, arriving there as a refugee in 1996. He then wrote…

The Independent UK

UK sanctions 2 Bosnian-Serb leader for undermining peace

Britain has sanctioned two leading Bosnian-Serb politicians

The Independent UK

UK announces sanctions against Bosnian-Serb politicians for ‘undermining peace’

Liz Truss said that with these ‘tough sanctions we are showing that the enemies of peace will be held to account’.

Al Jazeera

Infographic: 30 years since the Bosnian War

The international armed conflict that lasted from 1992 to 1995 led to a genocide that killed more than 100,000 people.

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Kosovo, Bosnia call for NATO membership as war rages in Ukraine

Kosovo’s president and Bosnia’s defence minister share their concerns about regional security and Moscow ally Serbia.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine matters, but so did Bosnia 30 years ago. Where was the outcry then?

Echoes of conflict are loud in Sarajevo on this poignant anniversary, yet there is one key difference

The Guardian - UK

A key reason Putin’s bloody invasion is faltering? He’s no match for Zelenskiy’s iPhone

The leader’s messages to his people – and the west - have been central to the heroic fightback. But now more than ever, we must stay engaged, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Independent UK

Balkans split over Madeleine Albright's wartime legacy

A monument in Kosovo, a snake named after her in Serbia

Reuters

Fleeing Ukrainian athletes welcomed by clubs in Bosnia, Bulgaria

Sports clubs in Bulgaria and Bosnia are providing refuge, training and competition for athletes escaping war in another show of global solidarity for Ukraine.

Daily Mirror

Russian ambassador in chilling warning about 'plans' for NATO after Ukraine invasion

Russian ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor Kalabukhov, has threatened countries considering joining NATO, warning its 30 current members Moscow "has plans" for them all

Al Jazeera

Can Bosnia’s Dayton Peace Agreement be reformed?

While many Bosnians are calling for a new civic constitution, some political elites seek more division, analysts say.

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