Sarajevo

Janez Gorišek, a civil engineer who designed the giant hill in Planica in the late 1960s together with his older brother Vlado and is considered a pioneer of ski flying, has died aged 89.

Bosnian LGBT activists on Monday condemned a violent attack on some of their activists by a group of hooligans on Saturday in Banja Luka, the administrative centre of Republika Srpska, one of the two entities in Bosnia, calling it a clear hate crime. 

"A comparison of satellite images from 2002 to 2022 shows radical change and building development in the area, while erasing any traces of the battlefield and failing to preserve historically significant artefacts which could aid in cultural and collective remembrance," Catovic Hughes told BIRN.

Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob underlined his choice of Bosnia-Herzegovina for his first official visit abroad by announcing in Sarajevo on 13 March that Slovenia wanted to be Bosnia's strongest ally. Golob pledged extensive technical support in Bosnia's EU membership efforts, speaking of a historic opportunity in the face of a changed attitude to enlargement.

The diploma of Sebija Izetbegovic, director of the Sarajevo Clinical Centre and professor at the Faculty of Medicine in the Bosnian capital, was revoked on Monday following an investigation into her master's qualifications.

Located in the 'European district' of the Belgian capital, Brussels, the House of European History sits next to the European Commission and a stone's throw from the European Parliament, its main sponsor. Spread over four floors, the exhibition space is dedicated to the history of Europe and is a key part of the EU's own tourist offer.

BELGRADE- The FMs of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ivica Dacic and Elmedin Konakovic, said on Friday Belgrade and Sarajevo wanted to have good, friendly relations and to ascertain mutual interests.

"We have the good will and we are ready to advance cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina," Dacic told a press conference with Konakovic after their first meeting to date.

The Appeals Court in Belgrade announced on Thursday that it has handed down a second-instance verdict sentencing Husein Mujanovic to four-and-a-half years in prison for abusing Serbs who were held at a Bosnian Army military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during 1992.

The Cepalo family was not the only one cutting short their sleep. In fact, Fatima Cizmic recalls the whole of Prusac doing the same. Yet this was no religious ritual or tradition. The reason was far simpler: Muslim Bosniaks like the Cepalo family were waking up to watch Muhammad Ali fight, but the time differences meant he almost always entered the boxing ring late at night.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received German ambassadors to the region and officials of the Berlin government, including special Western Balkans envoy Manuel Sarrazin, in Belgrade on Friday.