Latest News from Bosnia and Herzegovina
"Regional football league to be launched in 2018"
Macedonian Football League Director Vasko Dojcinovski says UEFA has approved the launch of a regional football league in 2018.
Speaking for Croatian daily Vecernji List, Dojcinovski said the league should consist of 24 clubs from Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, and Macedonia, and that heads of football associations from these countries all supported this new regional format.
Ratko Mladic 'Never Ordered Srebrenica Massacres': Defence
Closing arguments for the defence of Ratko Mladic began on Friday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, with the wartime military commander's lawyers arguing that the "unfortunate killings" of Bosniaks from Srebrenica were acts of "private revenge" over which the Bosnian Serb Army chief had no control.
Dodik says he'll endorse SNS candidate in Serbian elections
Milorad Dodik says his relationship with the Serbian prime minister is "good - we continue to work in the best interest of the RS and Serbia."
The president of the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina (RS) made these comments at the Serbian government's HQ in Belgrade on Thursday, after a meeting with Aleksandar Vucic.
Karadzic appeals ICTY conviction
THE HAGUE/SARAJEVO - Former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadzic on Monday appealed a conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentencing him to 40 years in prison over the Srebrenica genocide and crimes against humanity in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995.
Mladic key figure in massacre, crimes, say ICTY prosecutors
THE HAGUE - Ratko Mladic was a key figure in the Srebrenica massacre of Muslims and a joint criminal enterprise aimed at forcibly creating a Serb state in large portions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Monday at the beginning of their closing argument, four years after the start of Mladic's trial.
Mladic trial: Hague Prosecution seeks life in prison
The Hague Prosecution is seeking life sentence for the former commander of the Army of the Serb Republic (VRS) Ratko Mladic.
The 74-year old is charged with two counts of genocide, "part of the attempt to carve an ethnically pure Serb state out of multiethnic Bosnia, alongside political leader Radovan Karadzic, who was sentenced in March to 40 years' prison," Reuters said.
ICTY Prosecutor Demands Life Sentence for Ratko Mladic
BELGRADE - Alan Tieger, a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), demanded during closing arguments session on Tuesday former Bosnian Serb military commander Radko Mladic to be put behind bars for the rest of his life.