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Hundreds of Bosnians gathered in Sarajevo on Monday to greet the handball national team, which qualified for a major tournament for the first time since independence in a playoff win against Iceland.

The Bosnia and Herzegovina handball team will play in the World Championships in Qatar in 2015 after a nerve-racking one point aggregate win against Iceland.

PM decides not to attend WW1 event in Sarajevo

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić has announced that Serbia and the Serb Republic (RS) will this year jointly mark June 28 - Vidovdan.

The religious holiday, St. Vitus Day, and the date itself, have had exceptional significance for Serbs through centuries.

BELGRADE - Serbia and Republika Srpska (RS) will this year mark together St Vitus's Day, June 28, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday, adding that on that holiday Andricgrad in Visegrad, eastern RS, will be declared open.

A Bosnian Serb Army officer insisted that Bosniak forces staged an attack that killed over 60 people at Sarajevo’s Markale market in 1994, Ratko Mladic’s war crimes trial was told.

BANJA LUKA - Serbian Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac conferred in Banja Luka on Thursday with Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic on the activities RS and Serbia are conducting in relation to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.

"Changes in Bosnia only if all sides agree"

BANJA LUKA -- Željka Cvijanović has said that any possible changes in Bosnia-Herzegovina "must be the result of an agreement between the three peoples and two entities."

Cvijanović heads the government of Bosnia's Serb entity, the Serb Republic (RS).

"Vučić's visit to Sarajevo - visionary step"

BELGRADE -- Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić’s decision to go to Sarajevo for his first official visit was "a visionary step."

Davutoglu also announced that "the trilateral process" between Serbia, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina "would be resumed soon."

BELGRADE - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday that Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s decision to go on his first official visit to Sarajevo had been a visionary step, announcing that a trilateral process between Serbia, Turkey and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) would be resumed soon.

The President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, has accused Bosnia's mainly Bosniak and Croat Federation entity of seizing more donations for flood relief than it was entitled to.

Dodik said the issue of forming a solidarity fund at state level in Bosnia and Herzegovina had become stuck - and he rejected the idea of simply dividing the donations by half.

President urged to "change his mind" about Sarajevo trip

SARAJEVO -- Bakir Izetbegović says he "does not understand the reasoning behind Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić’s plans not to go to Sarajevo."