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8 die in New Year’s Eve carbon monoxide poisoning in Bosnia

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Police officers stand by migrants as they leave to be relocated from the Lipa camp northwestern Bosnia, near the border with Croatia, Bosnia, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. The European Union on Monday warned Bosnia that thousands of migrants face a winter without shelter, and it urged the country's bickering political authorities to set aside their differences and take action. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Bosnia: Uncertainty persists for migrants from burnt camp

By KEMAL SOFTIC - Associated Press

Smoke rises from a fire at migrant camp Lipa, Wednesday, Dec 23, 2020, near Bihac in western Bosnia. A huge fire has broken out at a migrant camp in northwestern Bosnia which has been in the focus of rights groups because of poor conditions in the tent facility. Thick black smoke could be seen rising Wednesday from parts of the Lipa camp near the Croatian border which currently houses some 1,200 migrants. The cause of the fire was not immediately known as migrants were seen running away in panic. There were no reports of injuries. (AP Photo/Hasan Arnautovic)

Fire breaks out at squalid migrant camp in Bosnia

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Bosnian Serb member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Milorad Dodik, right, welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the start of their meeting in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Lavrov is on a two-day visit to Bosnia. Both are wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Bosnian Serbs say icon given to Russian minister not stolen

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EU warns Bosnia of ‘alarming’ migrant state, urges action

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Russia to give icon that sparked controversy back to Bosnia

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Irma Baralija poses in front of the Old Bridge, one of Bosnia's best known landmarks in Mostar, Bosnia, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Bosnia's ethnically divided southern city of Mostar is holding its first local election in 12 years. The vote on Sunday ends a political stalemate between two nationalist parties representing ethnic groups that has prevented Mostar’s citizens from democratically electing their local legislators. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

‘Big win for democracy’: Bosnian city of Mostar gets a vote

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

Bosnian Serb member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Milorad Dodik, right, welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the start of their meeting in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Lavrov is on a two-day visit to Bosnia. Both are wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Gift to Russian minister triggers diplomatic probe in Bosnia

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Two Afghan families walk in a clearing after leaving a Croatian forrest near the Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, Thursday Dec. 10, 2020. Entire migrant families are on the move in cold weather in Bosnia while trying to reach the West as the European Union warns the Balkan country it must act to prevent a humanitarian disaster. A statement by the EU Bosnia mission says current weather conditions are putting at risk the lives of more than 3,000 people sleeping rough or staying in inadequate conditions. (AP Photo/Marc Sanye)

Europe human rights envoy urges Bosnia to act on migrants

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Alia and her 5-year old son walk through a Croatian forest with others after crossing the Bosnia-Croatia border near the Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, Thursday Dec. 10, 2020. Entire migrant families are on the move in cold weather in Bosnia while trying to reach the West as the European Union warns the Balkan country it must act to prevent a humanitarian disaster. A statement by the EU Bosnia mission says current weather conditions are putting at risk the lives of more than 3,000 people sleeping rough or staying in inadequate conditions. (AP Photo/Marc Sanye)

EU warns Bosnia to help migrants as entire families on move

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Bosnians rally against migrants after local man killed

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Members of a mobile electoral commission prepare go to voters during local elections in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Polls have opened at Bosnian local elections, where over 3 million voters will have the right to choose their local mayors and city hall parliament members for the next four years. Despite the huge number in positive cases and deaths from coronavirus in Bosnia, thousands of people have flocked the polling stations early Sunday. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Opposition parties win major cities in Bosnia’s local vote

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

Netherlands' Georginio Wijnaldum celebrates scoring his side's first goal during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between The Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Johan Cruyff ArenA in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. (John Thys/Pool via AP)

De Boer gets 1st win as Netherlands coach

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FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 file photo, Italy coach Roberto Mancini gestures during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Italy and Poland at Dall'Ara stadium in Bologna, Italy. Italy coach Roberto Mancini has tested positive for the coronavirus days before the international break. The Italian soccer federation says that Mancini is “completely asymptomatic” and is self-isolating at his house in Rome. The Italy squad will meet up on Sunday. It plays an international friendly against Estonia on Wednesday and hosts Poland in the Nations League four days later. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Virus-hit Italy hosts Poland without coach and star forward

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

Women exercise during a therapy session in a park in Sarajevo, Bosnia Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. As coronavirus cases surge in Bosnia, the pandemic is heaping new trouble on an impoverished nation that has never recovered economically or psychologically from a war in the 1990s. Bosnian health authorities estimate that nearly half of the Balkan nation’s nearly 3.5 million people have suffered some degree of trauma resulting from the war. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Pandemic heaps new fears and trauma on war-scarred Bosnians

By Sabina Niksic - Associated Press

2 arrested in Bosnia for wartime killing of 78 civilians

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In this undated image provided by the Danish Refugee Council, a migrant alleging he was brutalized and summarily expelled back to Bosnia by Croatian law-enforcement officers when they tried to cross into the European Union-member country, poses for photographs documenting his injuries in Velika Kladusa, Bosnia. The Danish Refugee Council's officials told The Associated Press Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 that dozens of migrants interviewed by the organization's staff in Bosnia over the past 10 days reported &quot;horrifying&quot; experiences with Croatian police, including &quot;savage beatings and even sexual abuse.&quot; ( Danish Refugee Council via AP )

Croatia accused of brutality, sexual abuse against migrants

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

A woman prays at the memorial cemetery in Potocari, after the first public showing of Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic's film on the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica - &quot;Quo Vadis, Aida?&quot;, in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, Oct. 10, 2020. The Srebrenica massacre was the culmination of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, which pitted the country's three main ethnic factions - Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

New Bosnian film on Srebrenica screened at place of massacre

By ELDAR EMRIC and SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

Tarik Svraka visits the graves of his parents in law who died of COVID-19 related complications, in Zenica, Bosnia, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. The coronavirus skeptics and rebels in Bosnia grow louder in step with the rising number of infections in the country. Recently, several families who lost their loved ones to COVID-19 were confronted online, and some even in real life, by scores of random virus believers and deniers sifting through their pain and questioning their relatives’ cause of death. (AP Photo/Almir Alic)

Bosnia: Unnerved by virus denial, survivors mourn their dead

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2001 file photo, Bosnian Serb Gen. Radislav Krstic puts on headphones as he takes his seat in the courtroom in The Hague, Netherlands. Authorities in Bosnia on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 arrested seven Bosnian Serb former military officers and troops suspected in the killing of 44 Bosniak civilians during the 1992-95 war. Among the suspects is Gen. Radislav Krstic, who is serving a 35-year-old prison sentence. In 2004, he was convicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on charges of aiding genocide. (Ed Oudenaarden, Pool Photo via AP, File)

9 arrested in Bosnia over wartime killings of civilians

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