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Almir Hodzic, president of the Bosna volleyball club, was also coming back from training the same day.

"Maja was a symbol of a cosmopolitan Sarajevo, a symbol of the stupidity of the war. All the absurdity of the war is reflected in her face," Hodzic said.

"Solidarity happens much more among equals," Sarajevo-based psychologist Jasna Bajraktarevic said on a regional talk show on N1 TVon March 18. She stressed that the countries in the region should rely much more on each other than on major global actors.

"Each time after a person had been taken out, I heard a volley of fire or a single shot," Salkic said.

He recalled that it was raining heavily when he approached the bridge, where he saw police officers in blue uniforms and soldiers in olive-grey Yugoslav People's Army uniforms, as well as members of a unit called the Red Berets.

The 25th Sarajevo Film Festival kicked off on Aug. 16 in Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital with a traditional red carpet walk.

Turkey's Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Güler on June 14 backed Bosnia and Herzegovina's Euro-Atlantic integration, officials said.
Güler arrived in the capital Sarajevo earlier today and met Bosnia and Herzegovina's Deputy Minister of Defense Sead Jusic.

BH Airlines, which suspended all its flights at the beginning of June, could be shut down completely by the end of this year, the union representing the company's workers told BIRN on Monday.

One of Bosnia's ten cantons is launching a initiative, challenging the regulations on distributing tax money in the Federation entity, to establish what its says is a fairer distribution of public revenues.

Bosnia’s Deputy Security Minister Mladen Cavar told Balkan Insight that although the situation had improved since the floods hit Bosnia in mid-May, the process of reconstruction and rehousing those displaced by the disaster would take much longer.

Power company workers repairing the transmission system and cleaning the area last week found human bones on the banks of the river Bosna near flood-stricken Doboj.

Lejla Cengic, of the Institute for Missing Persons, on May 26 said the flood had washed away part of the river bank, which is why the bones became visible.

Germany to give Bosnia EUR 6mn for loans, mine clearance

SARAJEVO -- The German government has set aside EUR 6 million as emergency assistance to Bosnia-Herzegovina, which is dealing with the consequences of the recent floods.

This was announced in Sarajevo by the German foreign minister.