Bosniaks

Two days ahead of Pope Francis's visit to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo's Zetra football stadium is taking on the contours of an open-air church, as preparations for the high-level visit near completion.

"Everything will be completely ready and set up by Friday," Josip Vajdner, from the media committee for the welcome of the Pope, predicted.

Bosnia's House of Representatives adopted an official statement about the recent attack on a police station in the eastern town of Zvornik after almost a day of ethnically-charged debates.

On Thursday evening, MPs adopted a conclusion condemning the attack on Zvornik police station as a terrorist act.

A congress of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, on Tuesday elected a new leadership for the new four years, electing Bakir Izetbegovic as president while choosing a deputy president, eight vice-presidents and a new main board.

Sarajevo is a typical Ottoman town where you instantly come across mosques, bazaars and fountains remaining from the Ottoman era, while there are many Turkish-speaking people to be found walking through its streets. Yet there is a major factor which differentiates the city from other Ottoman towns: Its gloom.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Sarajevo on Wednesday on a trip packed with diplomatic and business events and designed to highlight close Turkish ties to Bosnia - an almost half-Muslim country and a former province of the Ottoman Empire.

The president of Bosnia's Council of Ministers, Denis Zvizdic, and the Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, announced a joint session of governments to be held by the end of this year, to coordinate economic activities and jointly attract investors.

Vucic confirms he'll travel to Tirana in late May

SARAJEVO -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on Wednesday that he would travel to Albania on May 27.

He said his trip will come "because it is important to improve relations in the region and invest in peace and stability."

A long-ignored local environmental issue is threatening to become a major political headache for Bosnia's leaders, as well as a point of dispute with neighbouring Croatia.

Six municipalities in northwest Bosnia have demanded state protection against a Croatian government plan to build a radioactive waste disposal site near the Bosnian border.

Senior Montenegrin officials have urged the prosecution to take action after the online threats against the three MPs and local religious leaders by the jihadist who claimed to be a member of ISIS, local media reported on Sunday.

Turkey will always support Bosnia and its people in the fight against terrorism, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu on April 30.