Tuzla

Niksic, the SDP's former secretary general and leader for the past year, was re-elected as party president for the next four years in polls on Sunday.

"This is a great victory, not only for the SDP but for Bosnia and Herzegovina as well," Niksic told a press conference on Sunday night.

Workers at Dita, a once famous detergent company in the northwestern town of Tuzla, are celebrating after the company's creditors decided not to liquidate the firm and sell its assets, but seek a strategic investor who would keep on all the current employees.

"We won," Dzevad Mehmedovic, head of the trade union of Dita workers, told BIRN on Wednesday.  

The Dita Detergent factory in the north-eastern industrial town of Tuzla was once a leading brand in the former Yugoslavia.

But after surviving the 1992-5 war it went bankrupt and stopped production as the global recession swept through the region from 2008 onwards.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Belgrade mausoleum known as the House of Flowers on Monday to pay their respects to Yugoslavia's late president, Josip Broz Tito, who died on May 4, 1980.

Tito's admirers are mainly elderly people who visit his mausoleum every year to lay flowers in tribute to their beloved leader.

Police have launched a wide-ranging investigation after the shooting of Zuljevic, who went by the nickname 'Klica' and who media have alleged was linked to organised crime, in Zagreb's Sesvete neighbourhood on Sunday.

Bosnian officials have renewed calls for the dismissal of Goran Zubac, director of the State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, after the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a first instance ruling sentenced him to a year's probation for neglecting his duties during the protests last February.

Four young men who were illegally collecting coal in a surface mine near the northern industrial town of Tuzla were killed in a freak accident over the weekend, after being buried by a landslide triggered by a small earthquake.

The accident took place around midnight on Saturday, when northern Bosnia was hit by a minor earthquake with a magnitude of 3.3 on the Richter scale.

Dreamfood Restaurants, which held the McDonald's franchise in the Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska, is closing down down its restaurant in Banja Luka's main Gospodska street.

 The decision was announced on Monday. On Tuesday it was not possible to get comments from the company and its website was down.

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.

After completing the underground railway Marmaray connecting Istanbul?s European and Asian sides - a public transportation project dubbed the ?project of the century? by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an - and with the third bridge and airport construction ongoing, the sky is now the limit for Istanbul.