Bosnia

Left-green politician later claimed she had no idea image of Virgin Mary and baby Jesus had religious significance at the time of shooting.

Lawmakers from at least six countries said Chinese diplomats were pressuring them not to attend a China-focused conference in Taiwan.

European executive will recommend accession negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, despite lingering ethnic divisions in the Balkan country.

NATO supports Bosnia’s territorial integrity and is concerned by “malign foreign interference,” including by Russia Jens Stoltenberg said.

The war in Ukraine has put European Union expansion at the top of the agenda as officials from the Western Balkans and EU leaders gather.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) cautioned Tuesday the threat of armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine is not the only concern on the horizon, pointing to rising coronavirus rates in Eastern Europe as the source of more worries.

Serb politicians have taken the first steps towards seceding from Muslim-majority Bosnia and Herzegovina in a move that could see the return of ethnic violence in the Balkans.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – The chief international representative in Bosnia is warning that the war-scarred Balkan nation could face the biggest “existential threat of the post-war period” if the international community does not curb threatened separatist actions by Bosnian Serbs.

(AP) — Bosnian authorities on Saturday demolished a Serbian Orthodox church that was illegally built on land owned by a Bosniak woman, a move that comes after a 20-year legal battle that saw the case reach the European Court of Human Rights.

An NGO boss is one of thirty people under investigation by Italian prosecutors for helping Kurdish illegal migrants into Italy from Bosnia. 

Police in Slovenia have discovered 13 migrants from Iraq who were hidden in a cargo truck, suffering from dehydration and a lack of oxygen.

Bosnians have called for help from the European Union as tensions escalate between migrants and locals after a camp burned down near the border with EU member-state Croatia.

Hundreds of migrants were stranded in a burnt-out squalid tent camp in Bosnia as heavy snow fell in the country.

Addressing an EU enlargement summit Tuesday, Bulgaria pledged support for Balkan countries on the path of being integrated into the EU.

“Blasphemy in the garb of freedom of expression is intolerable,” Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said in a slogan broadcast on Twitter by the Pakistani government’s official account.

Mustafa Ružnić, Prime Minister of the canton of Una Sana in Bosnia-Herzegovina, has called on Italy to help stop the flow of migrants in the Balkans as tens of thousands continue to pass through.

An illegal alien, who allegedly sympathizes with Islamic State (ISIS) terrorism, has been indicted for allegedly ambushing New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers in a knife attack in Brooklyn, New York.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – The main Serbian hospital treating patients infected with coronavirus looks like an abandoned building, but it isn´t. With its rundown facade, peeling walls and rooms crammed with metal beds, the downtown Belgrade clinic for infectious diseases

Bosnian security minister Fahrudin Radoncic has claimed that as many as 100,000 migrants could be heading from Greece to Western Europe in the coming weeks.

(AFP) — Bosnia on Wednesday dismantled tents at the makeshift migrant camp known as the “jungle” for its harsh conditions, after transferring hundreds of people who were living at the site to Sarajevo.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Monday that Bosnia and Herzegovina must take “all necessary measures” to remove a Serbian Orthodox church that was built in the courtyard of a Muslim woman expelled from her village during the country’s 1992-95 war.

Police in Bosnia say officers found 34 migrants in a van near the country’s border with Serbia.

Authorities in Germany say they have arrested a Bosnian man sought by Belgium in connection with the 2015 Islamic extremist attacks in Paris.

Bosnian police say they have detained three people at two separate locations on suspicion of attempting to smuggle 19 migrants through the Balkan country.

German Federal police have uncovered a total of seventeen hand grenades in a vehicle in the vicinity of a main train station after a routine stop of two Bosnian nationals. Officers stopped the two Bosnian men on Monday evening after

As the EU confirmed it was spending taxpayers’ cash on migrants seeking to break into the bloc, Bosnians have pleaded for the Balkans migration route to be shut down amidst increasing “militancy” from newcomers.

Hundreds of illegal migrants – some chanting “open borders!” – have violently clashed with police after they stopped their caravan to Europe at the Bosnia-Croatia border.

Hundreds of migrants sought to be allowed to cross from Bosnia into Croatia on Tuesday after dozens spent the night in the open near the border between the two countries.

Bosnian police have blocked some 200 migrants from reaching the border with neighbouring Croatia, which is a member of the European Union. The migrants marched Monday from the northwestern town of Velika Kladusa toward Croatia in protest that the border

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – Polls have opened in Bosnia for a general election that could install a pro-Russian nationalist to a top post and cement ethnic divisions drawn in a brutal war more than 20 years ago.

BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Not so long ago, people in Bosnia were sarcastically joking that their war-scarred country is in such a bad shape that not even the migrants fleeing violence and poverty in the Mideast and Africa were willing to pass through it.

Dozen people have rallied in a small Bosnian town to protest an unprecedented influx of illegal migrants from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, claiming authorities are trying to destroy the area.

More and more migrants have been flowing across the border into Bosnia in recent months, hoping to cross into Croatia and the European Union, but the numbers may be fueling prior tensions between ethnic and religious groups in the country.

Bosnian border patrol agents seized 100 migrants attempting to cross into neighboring Croatia Monday as migrants seek out alternative routes into Western Europe.

Nine people were injured after a van carrying 29 illegal migrants from Afghanistan and Iraq attempted to ram a police checkpoint on the border between Bosnia and Croatia.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned Europe’s treatment of Turks yesterday as he used a fiery speech to urge the continent’s Muslims to stand up and fight for their rights in “failing democracies.”