Sarajevo

The new US ambassador to Sarajevo, Maureen Cormick, is arriving in Sarajevo this week to take up her post, officials said on Monday, raising hopes that she can bolster renewed Western efforts to help Bosnia restart its stalled reforms.

Bosnia's mountain ski resorts at Jahorina, Bjelasnica and Vlasic are having a good season as a result of the large number of visitors who have come to spend New Year's Eve there and enjoy the thick snow.

After last year's poor snowfall in the winter season left tourist operators struggling, heavy snow at the end of December this year has brought joy to skiiers and hoteliers.

A party in Bosnia, Our Party [Nasa Stranka], on December 30 said it had filed a lawsuit before the Sarajevo Cantonal Prosecutor against Salmir Kaplan, the Federation entity's Culture and Sports Minister, for misusing his official position and authority.

BELGRADE - "Ex Ponto", an exhibition that follows the wartime fates of Young Bosnia members and Belgraders in 1914, opened at Belgrade's Kalemegdan Fortress on Monday as part of events commemorating the outbreak of World War I.

Officers from Bosnia's Serb-led entity Republika Srpska assisted by local Sarajevo police raided the Klix newsroom in the capital on Monday in an attempt to discover the origins of the allegedly incriminating audio recording.

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From January 1, people in Bosnia will be able to choose who supplies their electricity after the country adopted a regulation opening up the market.

However, consumers' associations warn that most citizens are unaware of the change and what it means.

Turkey's state-run stock exchange Borsa Istanbul has started trading index futures of 10 companies from the Sarajevo Stock Exchange as part of expansion plans ahead of an initial public offering expected in the first half of 2016.

Borsa Istanbul is trying to increase links with other exchanges in the region such as those in Sarajevo and Montenegro as it prepares for the listing.

The International Commission on Missing Persons, founded to identify people who disappeared during the Yugoslav wars, will now move its headquarters from Sarajevo to The Hague.

Two former Bosnian Army members arrested for war crimes

SARAJEVO -- A former member of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) has been arrested on suspicion that he committed war crimes against Serb civilians.

SARAJEVO - Bosnia and Herzegovina's State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) has arrested Bosnia and Herzegovina national Zaim Lalicic in Sarajevo's Ilidza district on orders from the prosecutor's office on suspicion of a war crime against Serb civilians in Hrasnica in 1992 and 1993.