Dnevni Avaz

Ljubljana – Slovenian PM Janez Janša rang up Šefik Džaferović, the Bosniak member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina presidency, on Friday to explain that there is no non-paper containing border changes or efforts to undermine Bosnia-Herzegovina’s territorial integrity that could be linked with the Slovenian government.

After media reported that about 700 medical workers in Bosnia had taken sick leave lately, 300 at the Sarajevo University Clinical Centre, the biggest hospital in the capital, senior doctors and politicians have called for an investigation.

With a meeting of NATO foreign ministers scheduled for December 5 in Brussels, Bosnian Defence Minister Marina Pendes said on Tuesday that she hopes they will recommend the activation of the country's Membership Action Plan, MAP, eight years after it was first proposed.

But Pendes cautioned that this would just be a step on the road to eventual membership.

Around 100 Bosnians gathered on Monday in the town of Gradacac to protest about Turkey's arrest of Selmir Masetovic, including the detained student's relatives, friends, neighbours and the local mayor.

The state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday acquitted the leader of the Alliance for a Better Future for Bosnia party, businessman Fahrudin Radoncic, of obstructing the work of the judiciary, along with three other defendants.

"We were exactly at the scene. My father, mother and I were standing at one stall to eat when we heard a terrible noise," Lana Sehovac, a Bosnian citizen, told TV station N1 on Tuesday as she described the attack on the popular holiday market in Breitscheidplatz, in the west of Berlin.

CIA Director John Brennan late last night landed at the Sarajevo airport in a U.S. military plane, local newspaper Dnevni Avaz is reporting on Friday.

According to the same source, security has been noticeably increased in the town since Thursday evening.

Bosnia's political and ethnic divisions were on display once again after the ICTY convicted former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic of genocide and crimes against humanity and jaild him for 40 years on Thursday.

Police from the Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency on Monday arrested Radoncic, a tycoon who leads the Alliance for a Better Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SBBBiH party.

According to a statement from the Bosnian prosecution, Radoncic was arrested in Sarajevo for allegedly "interfering with the work of the judiciary".

Mladen Ivanic says Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic's support for RS President Milorad Dodik is "completely inappropriate."

Ivanic, who is the Serb member of the Bosnian Presidency and leader of an opposition party from the Serb entity (RS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina spoke for Sarajevo-based newspaper Dnevni Avaz.