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A car is submerged in flood waters outside an apartment building in the village of Kiseljak, northern Bosnia, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Rainstorms and heavy floods hit large parts of Bosnia, killing at least 14 people

By Eldar Emric - Associated Press

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, receives Bosnian Serb leader serving as the 8th President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik in his office office in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

U.N. resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia sparks opposition from Serbs

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

At U.N. headquarters in New York, the shaking interrupted the chief executive of Save The Children, Janti Soeripto. In short order, diplomats’ phones blared with earthquake alerts. Photo credit: UNTV video via Associated Press.

U.N. genocide resolution misuses the term

By Gregory Tosi

Members of the special police unit of Canton Sarajevo escort a person arrested in an operation codenamed "Black Tie" in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, April 22, 2024.In a large-scale raid conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, law enforcement officers swarmed homes and offices of 23 persons suspected to be part of the 'inner circle' of a drug kingpin. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Police in Bosnia arrest 23 people suspected of being part of global drug kingpin’s ‘inner circle’

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In this photograph made available by the Republika Srpska Presidential Press Service, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks after receiving the Order of Republika Srpska from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik during his visit to Banja Luka, Bosnia, Friday, April 5, 2024. Orban is on a two-day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Republika Srpska Presidential Press Service via AP)

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban receives a medal from pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president Dodik

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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen delivers her speech as part of the preparation of the European Council meeting of March 21-22 2024, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

European Union members should open talks with Bosnia on joining, the EU’s executive branch says

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

A man walks next to the store selling merchandise with the symbols of the Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games in downtown Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. Sarajevo is paying tribute this week to one of its most glorious moments: the two weeks of February in 1984 when it staged an impeccable Winter Olympic Games. While taking the nostalgic trip down memory lane, Bosnian Olympians say they are looking to the future with hope to again pull off an “apparently impossible feat” and reignite the Olympic flame over Sarajevo in 2032. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

War-scarred Sarajevo celebrates 40th anniversary of 1984 Winter Olympics and looks to the future

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General Counsel Emeritus of the World Jewish Congress Menachem Rosensaft, right, gestures with Bosnian Grand Mufti Husein Kavazovic, at the Srebrenica Memorial Center, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Potocari, Bosnia, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica Saturday to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and promote compassion and dialogue amid rising global sectarian hatred fueled by Israel’s war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Muslims and Jews in Bosnia observe Holocaust Remembrance Day and call for peace and dialogue

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Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik speaks during a news conference after claiming victory in a general election in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest of Sarajevo, on Oct. 3, 2022. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has compared the policies of separatist leader of the Serbs in Bosnia to those of Russian President Vladimir Putin following his moves to curb dissent and LGBTQ rights. Blinken said on Twitter late on Wednesday that "Milorad Dodik's attacks on basic rights and freedoms in Republika Srpska show he is on President Putin's authoritarian path." (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

U.S., NATO must act to stop threat to peace in Bosnia and the western Balkans

By Denis Becirovic

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest of Sarajevo, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. Bosnian Serb separatist leader wowed to carry on weakening his multiethnic, war-scarred country to the point where it will tear apart, despite the pledge by the United States to prevent such an outcome. "I am not irrational, I know that America's response will be to use force…but I have no reason to be frightened by that (realization) into sacrificing (Serb) national interests," Milorad Dodik, the president of Bosnia's Serb-run part, told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

U.S. fighter jets to fly over Bosnia in a sign of support to the country as Serbs call for secession

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Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik uses his phone prior to the start an interview with the Associated Press, in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 240 kms northwest of Sarajevo, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. Bosnian Serb separatist leader wowed to carry on weakening his multiethnic, war-scarred country to the point where it will tear apart, despite the pledge by the United States to prevent such an outcome. "I am not irrational, I know that America's response will be to use force…but I have no reason to be frightened by that (realization) into sacrificing (Serb) national interests," Milorad Dodik, the president of Bosnia's Serb-run part, told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik vows to tear his country apart despite U.S. warnings

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Partizan's head coach Savo Milosevic gestures during the Europa League group L soccer match between Manchester United and FK Partizan at Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England, on Nov. 7, 2019. There was a hat trick of European Championship qualifications this week for soccer teams from the former Yugoslavia. Now Bosnia-Herzegovina aims to make it a record four in Germany next year. Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia all qualified between Sunday and Tuesday. The sense of history was appreciated Thursday by Bosnia’s coach Savo Milošević. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)

Savo Milosevic aims to lead Bosnia through Euro 2024 playoffs to join Balkan neighbors at finals

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks to the media during a joint news conference with the President of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Borjana Kristo, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

NATO chief commits to Bosnia’s territorial integrity and condemns ‘malign’ Russian influence

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Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije, center, speaks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, July 20, 2023. They talked about the situation in the region and upcoming important meetings between the delegations of the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Srpska.(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

International officials, groups warn Bosnian Serbs new libel law is contrary to proclaimed EU path

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A Bosnian muslim woman mourns next to the grave of her relative, victim of the Srebrenica genocide, at the Memorial Centre in Potocari, Bosnia, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Thousands gahter in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to commemorate the 28th anniversary on Monday of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

In Srebrenica, thousands gather to remember the 1995 massacre and bury the newly identified dead

By Eldar Emric - Associated Press