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Balkan Journalists Vulnerable to Attacks, Study Shows
A study conducted in Bosna and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro by the Western Balkans Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists Safety, concludes that journalists remain vulnerable to physical attacks and other pressures, and have few ways of defending themselves effectively.
Karadzic submits 238-page appeal against Hague conviction
Former RS President Radovan Karadzic on Monday appealed a conviction by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Karadzic appeals ICTY conviction, "system is politicised and based on double standards"
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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.
ICTY prosecutors: Mladic key figure in massacre, crimes
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.
UN Prosecutors: Mladic was Key Figure in Bosnia Atrocities
Prosecutors began their closing arguments in the trial of Ratko Mladic on Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, insisting that the former Bosnian Serb Army chief enjoyed strong command over forces that carried out genocide during the 1992-95 war.
Ivanic: Referendum results cannot be annulled
BANJALUKA - The results of the Republika Srpska Day referendum cannot be annulled, Chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Mladen Ivanic said in Banjaluka Friday.
Only the consequences of the referendum can be annulled, Ivanic, the Serb member of the tripartite rotating presidency, told the Avaz.ba news portal.
New SDS Chief Threatens Fresh Bosnian Serb Referendum
The new leader of the main opposition party in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, has indicated that he he will adopt a tougher, more nationalistic line than his predecessor, advocating a referendum in the entity on the country's courts.
Closing Arguments Begin in Ratko Mladic Trial
The prosecution is summing up its arguments in the trial of Ratko Mladic from Monday until Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, while the defence will give its closing statement from December 9 to 13.
Both sides will then have the opportunity to comment on each other's closing statements on December 15 at the UN court.
Putin: Global Balance is Restoring
BELGRADE - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the balance in the world is restoring as attempts to create a unipolar world have failed.
BiH War Crimes Court Indicts 6 Serbs
BELGRADE - A Bosnian war crimes prosecutor has indicted six Bosnia Serbs for their roles in killing dozens of Muslims during the wars that tore Yugoslavia apart in the 1990s.
The Sarajevo-based prosecutor said in statement December 2 that the six also attacked about 1,000 people in eastern Bosnia's Srebrenica area in 1992.
Results of Republika Srpska Day referendum cannot be annulled
BANJALUKA - The results of the Republika Srpska Day referendum cannot be annulled, Chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Mladen Ivanic said in Banjaluka Friday.
Only the consequences of the referendum can be annulled, Ivanic, the Serb member of the tripartite rotating presidency, told the Avaz.ba news portal.
RS Day referendum results "cannot be annulled"
The results of the Serb Republic (RS) Day referendum cannot be annulled, Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Mladen Ivanic said on Friday.
Only the consequences of the referendum can be annulled, Ivanic, the Serb member of the tripartite rotating presidency, told the Avaz.ba website.
Bosnia: Controlled explosion of 250-kilo aerial bomb/VIDEO
A 250-kilogram aerial bomb found on Wednesday in the Privilnica suburb of the Bosnian town of Bihac has been destroyed.
The controlled explosion took place on Friday morning, and went as planned, causing no injuries or damage, Sead Vrana of the Civil Protection Administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina's Muslim-Croat entity (FBiH) told reporters.
Croatia Urged to Fine Tune Foreign Policy Goals
Croatia needs to precisely set its foreign policy goals and plan its international diplomatic initiatives more thoroughly, according to Dejan Jovic, a professor at the Zagreb Faculty of Political Sciences and chief analyst to former President Ivo Josipovic.
Serbian Minister Admits 'Mistake' Quitting Warsaw Summit
Serbian Foreign Minister Dacic told at a press conference on Thursday that he might have been wrong to walk out of a meeting in Warsaw over comments he said were made by his Kosovo counterpart, Enver Hoxhaj.
"I might have made a mistake, but at that moment that was how I felt," he said.