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Serbian Ex-Ambassador Downplays Bosnian Caucus

Vujacic, who was involved in forming the Serbian caucus in the US in 2004, downplayed the importance of the letter sent on the eve of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic's visit to Washington.

He told BIRN on Thursday that such caucuses are transparent informal parliamentary groups of US Congressmen or Senators who gather in relation to a country or a specific issue.

Obama invites Muslim pupil arrested for clock invention to White House

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old high school student in Irving, Texas who was arrested in a classroom on Monday after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, has attracted admiration from a former secretary of state, a NASA scientist and even US President Barack Obama.

Jeb Bush rejects Trump demand that everyone speak English in U.S.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Sept.3 rejected what he called a bizarre notion voiced by front-running rival Donald Trump that people should speak English in the United States. 

Bush, who is bilingual in Spanish and frequently breaks into the language at his events, vowed to keep speaking Spanish whenever he feels like it. 

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