Tuzla

The construction of a thermal power plant, block 7, in the northeastern Bosnian town of Tuzla is now on hold after Chinese investors said they were retreating from the project, the Bosnian news website Klix.ba reports on Wednesday.

Police took down a blockade erected by protesting Bosniak and Croat war veterans in the northern town of Tuzla on Saturday.

As 2017 ended and 2018 began, Macedonia took emergency measures against dense smog enveloping its cities, an annual winter scourge in the Western Balkans blamed on a mix of coal burning, ageing industry and high-polluting emissions from older vehicles.

Author Ilija Brankovic launched a new book in which he tries to dispute the Bosnian Serb Army’s responsibility for the deadly shelling of the Bosnian town of Tuzla in May 1995.

Six cities in the Balkans have made it into the top ten most polluted cities in Europe in data published by the Guardian newspaper.

The newspaper analysed data on ultra-fine pollution particles, called PM2.5, from the World Health Organisation, WHO, finding that the town of Tetova in north-western Macedonia was the most polluted city in Europe excluding Turkey.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck the Marmara province of Çanakkale's Ayvacık district at 1:38 p.m. on Feb. 6, Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said in a statement, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

The quake's depth was measured at around 9.25 kilometers. 

The Tuzla-based Foundation for Truth, Justice, Reconciliation has filed a criminal complaint against Nedeljko Cubrilovic, president of the National Assembly in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska, and members of the organising committee that recently gave awards to convicted war criminals including Radovan Karadzic.

Bosnian authorities are still struggling to curb outbreaks of violence at football games between supporters of rival teams.

The latest clash erupted on Wednesday at a match in the northern town of Tuzla between the local team Sloboda and FK Sarajevo.

Belgrade’s appeals court acquitted Bosnian ex-policemen Ilija Jurisic of an attack on the retreating Yugoslav People’s Army in the Bosnian town of Tuzla in 1992, overturning his original 12-year sentence.

Bosnian towns like Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zenica, Lukavac and Kakanj are suffering from serious problems with air pollution, experts from the Federal Hydro-Meteorological Institute of Bosnia and Herzegovina [FHMZBiH] told BIRN.

"Sarajevo is definitely one of the most polluted cities in Europe when it comes to air pollution," said Enis Omercic, an air-quality expert for the FHMZBiH.