Latest News from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia's Storm Chasers Thrill to Prospect of Lousy Weather

While most people in Bosnia only check the weather forecast to see if sunny days are coming, a small but devoted group of enthusiasts check the forecasts hoping for the exact opposite.

They want to track down thunderstorms, lightning, pouring rain or similar unstable weather conditions.

Witness Recalls Surviving Shooting by Arkan’s Paramilitaries

A witness told the Hague retrial of former Serbian security service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic how he survived a shooting by paramilitaries led by Serbian warlord Arkan in Bosnia in 1995.

Bosnia Intensifies Efforts to Destroy Outdated Ammunition

The new laboratory, the fourth of its kind in the country, is scheduled to open next month as Bosnia continues efforts to destroy old and dangerous munitions as part of the conditions imposed by NATO to activate its membership action plan for the Western military alliance.

Bosnia's Politicians Promise Pay Hikes as Elections Loom

As Bosnia's politicians prepare for parliamentary and presidential elections in October this year, many of them are wooing voters with promises of big pay hikes.

The government of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, RS, has said it will take measures to increase salaries in the entity, with strong support from the RS President, Milorad Dodik.

Bosnian Croats 'Undermining State' by Opening Brussels Office

After Dragan Covic, the Croat member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency, announced that Bosnia's Croatian-majority cantons will open a joint representative office in Brussels, critics called the move a step towards the destabilisation, and even the collapse, of the Bosnian state.

Monthly average net wage in April was EUR 416

Compared with the previous month, the average gross wage increased by 6.2 percent in nominal terms and by 5 percent in real terms, the Statistical Office of Serbia (RZZS) has announced.

The average net wage meanwhile increased by 6.7 percent in nominal terms, and by 5.5 percent in real terms.

France hands war crimes suspect to Bosnia

France has extradited to Bosnia a former ethnic Serb solider accused of taking part in the burning alive of more than 50 Muslim civilians during the country's 1990s war, prosecutors said on June 24.

Turkish Election Results Reveal Political Divide in Balkans

Turkey's election authority has confirmed Turkey's strongman for 16 years, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won Sunday's presidential and parliamentary elections, with 99.7 per cent of the votes counted.

Democracy was the winner of Sunday's presidential and parliamentary elections, Erdogan said on June 25.

Media impressed as Serbia fans seize Croatian flag in Moscow

Although the problem of football hooliganism is present in Serbia, and as things stand, there still is no way to put an end to it, the public at home is being served the news about "a clash between Serbs and Croats" in Russia as almost "a victory in battle and the taking of war loot."

In Pictures: Croatians Celebrate World Cup Triumph Over Argentina

Supporters of Croatia celebrate as they watch the broadcast of the FIFA World Cup 2018 group D preliminary round soccer match between Argentina and Croatia in central Zagreb. Photo: EPA-EFE/DANIEL KASAP Supporters of Croatia celebrate as they watch the broadcast of the FIFA World Cup 2018 group D preliminary round soccer match between Argentina and Croatia in central Zagreb.