Bosnia and Herzegovina

Members of the three statistical agencies of Bosnia, the state agency and those of the two entities, have been unable to agree on the methodology to elaborate the results of the coungtry's first post-war census, raising fears that publication might not be possible by the July 1 legal deadline.

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.

A joint project between Croatia and Bosnia aims to revitalise the old railways built by the Austria-Hungarian Empire by creating a network of bicycle trails, which will also help unlock the tourist potential of the region.

A citizen of Bosnia-Herzegovina who admitted in court to fighting on the side of Islamic State will likely receive a one-year prison sentence.

Regional media are reporting that 23-year-old Emin Hodzic and the Prosecution of Bosnia-Herzegovina had reached a plea bargain.

The LGBT community in Sarajevo has called on the Bosnian authorities to punish the perpetrators of an attack last Friday on the Kino Kriterion, one of the few LGBT-friendly clubs in the capital.

"Authorities need to prosecute this homophobic attack as a proper hate crime," Emina Bosnjak, from the Sarajevo Open Center, which promotes LGBT rights in Bosnia, told BIRN on Monday.

The UN’s Human Rights Committee said Bosnia and Herzegovina violated the rights of widow Sakiba Dovadzija because it failed to prosecute those responsible for the enforced disappearance of her husband.

Bosnian authorities are debating whether to abolish "white bread", the name given to an official perk that grants top politicians the right to receive their salaries for a whole year after their mandates end.

A court in Graz, Austria, on Thursday jailed a Bosnian citizen, Fikret Begic, to eight years in prison for recruiting volunteers for Islamic State, ISIS.

Croatian police arrested Begic, 49, originally from the town of Konjic but now living in Graz, in January 2015 in Slavonski Brod, while he was trying to cross the border with Bosnia.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic "has accepted a proposal to postpone his visit to Sarajevo for the fall because of elections in Serbia."

This is what his press service announced on Friday, adding that Nikolic made this decision during a telephone conversation with member of the Presidency of Bosnia-and Herzegovina Bakir Izetbegovic.

 The Bulgarian men's national football team climbed five positions in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking released on Thursday.

At present, Bulgaria occupies the 70th place jointly with the team of South Africa, with both teams having 500 points.