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Balkans snowstorm leaves tens of thousands of homes without power, causes traffic chaos
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Tens of thousands of homes in Bosnia were without electricity on Tuesday after more heavy snow and winds that also brought traffic chaos in neighboring Croatia and Serbia. In Slovenia, the resumption of a search for an injured Hungarian hiker...
Rescuers reach a stranded hiker in Slovenia but another is missing during a Balkans snowstorm
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A snowstorm across the Balkans brought traffic chaos, closed schools and left thousands of homes without electricity in Croatia and Bosnia on Monday, while the weather hampered efforts in Slovenia to reach two hikers stranded in the Alps. The...
Bosnia's capital Sarajevo chokes on toxic air as a thick blanket of winter fog rolls over the city
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Flights were grounded and people were told to stay indoors as a thick blanket of smog Thursday engulfed Bosnia's capital of Sarajevo as residents tried to cope with toxic air. The Swiss air quality technology company IQAir, which assesses air...
Tennis official from Bosnia-Herzegovina suspended and fined for betting on matches
LONDON (AP) — A tennis official from Bosnia-Herzegovina was suspended for four years by the International Tennis Integrity Agency for six violations of the tennis anti-corruption program, including betting on professional matches. Damjan Dejanovic’s punishment, which also...
EU leader praises Serbia for its advances in EU membership bid despite growing Russian influence
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday praised the Serbian president for meeting her and other European Union leaders instead of attending a Russia-organized summit of developing economies held earlier this week. Serbia has close ties...
A deadly attack at a police station in Bosnia is an act of terrorism, prosecutors say
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — An attack by a teenager who broke into a police station in northwest Bosnia — killing one officer and wounding another — was described as an act of terrorism by authorities on Friday. The assault happened around 9 p.m. in the town of Bosanska...
Teenager stabs police officers in a police station in Bosnia, killing 1 and wounding another
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A teenager broke into a police station in northwest Bosnia on Thursday, killed one officer with a knife and wounded another, police said. The attack happened around 9 p.m. in the town of Bosanska Krupa. The assailant, born in 2009, went into the...
Residents and activists in central Bosnia clean up a lake after massive floods
JABLANICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Residents and activists on Sunday pulled out heaps of debris and trash from a lake in a central Bosnian region that was devastated by deadly floods and landslides more than two weeks ago. Using boats and motor vehicles, the volunteers scooped...
A photojournalist is fatally stabbed on a California trail. His teen son is charged in his death
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A photojournalist who covered world events such as the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the fall of the Berlin Wall and Nelson Mandela's release from prison was fatally stabbed during a weekend hike in the San Gabriel Mountains and his 19-year-old son has been charged in the...
Several thousand attend a funeral service in southern Bosnia for 19 killed in devastating floods
JABLANICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Several thousand mourners in southern Bosnia converged Tuesday around 19 caskets covered in traditional Islamic green cloth, part of a funeral service held for those killed during the destructive floods and landslide s that hit the country in early October. ...
