Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ricardo Zapata Marti, coordinator of the EU's Recovery Needs Assessment, dealing with the impact of recent floods, said that the final assessment of the bill for the floods would be ready in two weeks' time - but the figure was likely to be close to 2 billion euro.

“The worst damages are to infrastructure, rivers and riverbeds, as well as transport lines,” he said.

Four former Bosnian Army servicemen have been indicted for allegedly staging an attack on Serb civilians who were fleeing the conflict in Gorazde in 1992, leaving 21 people dead.

Former special policeman Zeljko Ivanovic, who guarded a warehouse where Bosniaks were massacred, was given the maximum sentence of 20 years for assisting the Srebrenica genocide.

Veselin Vlahovic, who waged a campaign of murder, rape and robbery against Bosniaks and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992, had his prison sentence reduced from 45 to 42 years.

The Bosnian prosecution ordered the arrests of over 30 officials of the taxation authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including former tax director Kemal Causevic, as well as questioning 20 others.

Sonja Karadzic-Jovicevic, the daughter of the former Bosnian Serb president who is on trial for war crimes, has been chosen as a parliamentary candidate for upcoming elections.

Former Bosnian Serb servicemen Bosiljko and Ostoja Markovic both pleaded not guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl in the Kotor Varos area in June 1992.

The Bosnian prosecution on Tuesday said it had started a search of the National Museum in Sarajevo to review the exhibits and documentation and find out why it has been shut since October 2012.

Hundreds of Bosnians gathered in Sarajevo on Monday to greet the handball national team, which qualified for a major tournament for the first time since independence in a playoff win against Iceland.

The Bosnia and Herzegovina handball team will play in the World Championships in Qatar in 2015 after a nerve-racking one point aggregate win against Iceland.

Lionel Messi scored a trademark individual goal as Argentina opened their World Cup campaign with a narrow 2-1 win over Bosnia-Hercegovina at Rio de Janeiro's renovated Maracana on June 16.

The Barcelona superstar created the third-minute own goal by Sead Kolasinac with which Argentina went ahead, but it took a mid-match tactical shift for him to really start influencing proceedings.