Sarajevo

Local and international institutions, police and security agencies need to cooperate more if the battle against terrorism is to be won, Bosnia's Chief Prosecutor, Goran Salihovic, told a counter-terrorism workshop in Sarajevo this week.

The president of the War Veterans' organisation in Bosnia's Serb-led dominated Republika Srpska, Milomir Savcic, told media on Tuesday that the awarding of the medal to former politicial leader Ganic who is now an academic, showed that Croats and Bosniaks have always been in an alliance against Serbs.

BRUSSELS - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said in Brussels that he was taken aback by a decision of Croatia's outgoing President Ivo Josipovic to decorate Ejup Ganic, a member of the wartime presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), and by a statement made by Ganic after receiving the recognition.

Croatia decorates Bosnian wanted for war crimes by Serbia

ZAGREB -- Ivo Josipovic has decorated Ejup Ganic, whom Serbia charges with war crimes, and for whom the country has issued an international arrest warrant.

ZAGREB - Ivo Josipovic, outgoing president of Croatia, has decorated Ejup Ganic, member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) war-time presidency, whom Serbia has placed on an international warrant for war crimes.

Presenting the decoration, Josipovic said that he is happy to award an individual who deserves such recognition.

The annual Sarajevo Winter festival on Monday started its three-day run which will see 1,300 people from 40 countries participating in a wide-ranging series of cultural and arts events at museums, galleries and concert halls throughout the city.

BELGRADE - The US edition of "Tesla, A Portrait with Masks", a novel by Serbian author Vladimir Pistalo, was presented to the readers in Boston.

One of the best-selling novels in Serbia in the past six years had a successful US launch in Boston's cult bookstore Brookline Booksmith on Thursday, the Serbian publisher Agora said in a release.

Bosnians are planning demonstrations across the country on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the start of protests of February 7 2014 - and remind local leaders of how little they have done to improve matters over the past year.

BELGRADE - Medical Center Merkur in Vrnjacka Banja as the champion of health tourism in South Eastern Europe (SEE) and Belgrade in the category of cultural tourism are the winners of Golden Tourist Heart awards, according to the jury of the International center for tourism and hospitality development Sacen International.

Islamic State flag displayed in Bosnian village

SARAJEVO -- The flag of the Islamic State and other markings of the terrorist organization were displayed on a house in the village of Gornja Maoca in Bosnia.