Doboj

Borislav Paravac, a Serb former member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, was charged with taking part an attack that killed several hundred Bosniaks and Croatians in Doboj and Teslic in 1992 and 1993.

Slobodan Karagic, the former head of a police unit in Doboj, is accused of involvement in the killings of at least 12 Bosniaks among other crimes allegedly committed during attacks in 1992.

The prosecution launched an investigation after the bomb was thrown at the police station in Zavidovici, a small town in central Bosnia, early on Tuesday at 15 minutes past midnight - the latest in a recent series of violent incidents in the country.

One person died and another was seriously injured when a small plane crashed on Mt. Ozren in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the klix.ba website is reporting.

"Rescuers are headed toward the scene, more information will be known during the day," the officer on duty at the Public Security Center in the town of Doboj said on Thursday afternoon.

The mayor and leaders of a Bosnian Serb town are in hot water for advocating closer ties with Turkey - a country that many Bosnian Serbs see as the international champion of Bosnia's Muslims.

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.

More than 100 houses were inundated by water across central Bosnia on Sunday and Monday after several days of heavy rains and melting snow, sparking public concerns about a possible repeat of last year's flood disaster in the country.

Officials however urged calm, stressing that although most of Bosnia's rivers were on the rise, they were still far from critical levels.

The authorities will construct houses in the northern village of Bukovica to help Bosniak refugees who were expelled during the 1990s war to finally return home.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said after Saturday's session of the Serbian and Republika Srpska governments that progress has been made in all fields of cooperation and that the two sides agreed to establish a coordination body to jointly develop agricultural, food and industrial production.

The Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested 13 people on suspicion of taking part in crimes against humanity, including over 40 murders, in Doboj and Teslic in 1992.