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The Sarajevo Winter Olympics of 1984 started 28 years ago today, and the Bosnian ski slopes are once again very much open for business.
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Sarajevo -
Serbian police have arrested a further 17 individuals believed to have connections to the Islamic Wahhabi sect which spawned Mevlid Jasarevic. Jasarevic was arrested on Friday after opening fire at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo.
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Srebrenica -
Today, July 11th, marks the 16th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre where over 8,000 Bosniak men lost their lives in the biggest mass murder since the second World War.
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Bugojno -
The girl in a red sweater shown in a video while flinging several puppies into a Bosnian river has been found by police, media reports claim. There's never been anyone fined in Bosnia for doing something like this.
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Bugojno -
Police in Bosnia said that they have identified the girl who was filmed throwing six puppies into a river one by one. They have not released her age or name.
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Actress Angelina Jolie will be off to Sarajevo this fall to film a love story set during the Bosnian War. The actress was in Bosnia this week doing charity work.
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The ex Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has had a lawyer appointed to him by the UN's Yugoslav War Crimes court after his failure to attend the first week of his own trial.
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The break-up of the former state of Yugoslavia was not a peaceful one. In the early 1990s the world watched in disbelief as former friends and neighbors turned on each other in the name of religion or ethnic origin. Often it was on account of both.
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It was on July 11 1995 that Bosnian Serb forces, under the command of General Ratko Mladic, entered the town of Srebrenica in Eastern Bosnia. Once there they forced the women and children out of the town, before slaughtering its men and teenage boys.
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While hiding for about thirteen years, former Serb leader of Bosnia, Dr. Radovan Karadzic, spent his remaining years before capture as a popular alternative healer.
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Bosnia Headlines
Allan Little recalls horrors of Bosnia war, 20 years on
 It took 16 months of wrangling, but Bosnia has finally completed the formation of a new government.
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The reading rooms of Bosnia-Hercegovina's National Library go unheated as a funding crisis rooted in political differences grips heritage sites.
Will Bosnia’s precious national heritage weather a funding freeze?
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An exhumed mass grave in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where key events in the July 1995 Srebrenica Massacre unfolded. July 2007
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