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The Sarajevo Cantonal Assembly, one of ten cantons in Bosnia's mainly Bosniak and Croat-dominated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity, has voted to shorten school classes in the Muslim Ramadan to give extra time to observant pupils and teachers to break the religious fast. 

Rade Grujic, a former member of Snagovo Company of the Zvornik Territorial Defence force, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday at the Bosnian state court to raping a Bosniak woman in the village of Liplje during the war.

The Kon-Tiki building in the Sarajevo municipality of Vogosca was officially handed over to the Sarajevo Canton's ministry of veterans' affairs on Wednesday and will be turned into the Museum of the Suffering of the Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The formation of a government in the Bosniak and Croat-dominated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the bigger of Bosnia's two entities, remains on hold since the October 2022 election, as the governing coalition that promised its quick formation falls apart. 

The Cepalo family was not the only one cutting short their sleep. In fact, Fatima Cizmic recalls the whole of Prusac doing the same. Yet this was no religious ritual or tradition. The reason was far simpler: Muslim Bosniaks like the Cepalo family were waking up to watch Muhammad Ali fight, but the time differences meant he almost always entered the boxing ring late at night.

The Cantonal Court in Bihac on Thursday found Milenko Macanovic, alias Macan, who was a Bosnian Serb Army soldier in Kljuc during wartime, of murdering one civilian prisoner and mistreating another.

The court found that Macanovic went into the Nikola Mackic School gym in Kljuc after a number of Bosniak civilians had been detained and brought to the gym for interrogation.

"In all institutions, I want to see a greater number of Bosniaks at every level, that will be our policy and it must be, and I want people to feel it," he said.
"I am sure that we will have more Bosniaks in the government than ever in the history of Serbia," said Vui.

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Political parties that make up the majority in Bosnia's current government, the Council of Ministers, have totally fulfilled only six out of their 189 pre-election promises, says a report by a fact-checking organisation, published on Thursday.

The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Monday confirmed the verdict convicting Cvijan Tomanic, a Bosnian Serb soldier during wartime, of committing a crime against humanity in a village near Zvornik in 1992.

Defence and prosecution appeals against the first-instance verdict were rejected as "unfounded", the court said.

Ten people including Ejup Ganic, a Bosniak former political leader who was a member of Bosnia's presidency during the war, pleaded not guilty at the Bosnian state court on Tuesday to committing war crimes against prisoners of war and civilians in the controversial Dobrovoljacka Street case.