Republika Srpska

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that from now on, Belgrade wants to see regular reports from the High Representative, the official tasked with overseeing the implementation of the 1995 Dayton peace deal that ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A medieval hand-and-a-half-long sword rammed into stone, discovered this summer at the bottom of the river Vrbas in Bosnia, has been hailed by experts as a significant archaeological find.

As the sword was literally plunged into stone, it has been necessary to slowly separate the stone from the sword under water, as the sword had to be recovered together with a part of the rock.

Protesters marched once again on Sunday in Banja Luka, the main city in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska.

David's father, Davor Dragicevic, told the protest that he would not leave Banja Luka's main square until his requests are met.

Journalists gathered on Tuesday in Sarajevo, Mostar and Zenica to demand an end to violence against reporters in Bosnia and Heregovina, two days after Vladimir Kovacevic, a journalist at BN TV, one of the main media outlets in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, was attacked in front of his home in Banja Luka.

Vladimir Kovacevic, a journalist at BN TV, one of the main media in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska, was attacked on Sunday in front of his home in Banja Luka, the administrative centre of the entity, BN TV reported.

"I passed by them [the assailants] without expecting anything to happen to me. Suddenly they attacked me," Kovacevic told BN TV, describing the attack.

The Chamber of Commerce in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska told BIRN that emigration was hitting economic development, after an International Monetary Fund report cut its growth forecast for 2018 due to the number of people leaving the country.

"We miss workers of all profiles and it is slowly becoming an obstacle to development," the Chamber of Commerce said.

Renting out apartments for a day has become a popular way for Bosnians to making extra profit but the unclear laws in this area are seen as causing a problem for the state budget.

Now a new law, adopted three months, intends to clear up the confusion. It allows Bosnians to rent out a property without registering as a rental company.

On the 10th anniversary of the murder of civil engineer Milan Vukelic, a group of citizens on Monday took part in a peaceful march in the capital of the mostly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, carrying banners reading: "Who killed Milan Vukelic?"

There were angry reactions on Wednesday from Bosnian Serbs - who don't believe the Srebrenica massacres were genocide - after the state Council of Ministers agreed on proposed amendments to the law that will criminalise the denial of genocide.

BANJALUKA - Republika Srpska (RS) President Milorad Dodik said Monday the RS was primarily interested in its original powers, envisioned by the Dayton Agreement, being restored, and that no one would keep it within Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) if this proved to be impossible.