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In this photo taken Tuesday, June 11, 2019, children play next to puddle in front of the abandoned building, now serving as a shelter in the northwestern Bosnian town of Bihac. Aid groups in Bosnia are finding it increasingly difficult to respond to the growing migration pressures, warning that the situation in one of Europe’s poorest and most volatile countries is speedily transforming into a fully-fledged humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Almir Alic)

Aid groups: Migrant humanitarian crisis looming in Bosnia

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

Italy's Lorenzo Insigne celebrates after scoring during the Euro 2020 group J qualifying soccer match between Italy and Bosnia- Herzegovina at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. (Alessandro Di Marco/ANSA via AP)

Italy scores late to beat Bosnia 2-1 and keep perfect record

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Migrant clash in Bosnia injures scores, including 3 police

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A firefighter helps douse a fire at a factory building being used as a migrant center, after a major fire at the building in Velika Kladusa, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Saturday, June 1, 2019. The blaze erupted early Saturday at the centre which hosts some 500 migrants, injuring over thirty migrants, police said.(AP Photo)

Fire engulfs migrant center in Bosnia, injuring 32

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A man walks in front of a his flooded home in Banja Luka, Bosnia, Tuesday, May 14, 2019. Overflowing rivers in Bosnia and Croatia have flooded dozens of homes and roads, putting the Balkans on high alert after 2014 floods killed dozens of people died and submerged large areas of the region. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Floods renew fear in Bosnia; boy missing after fall in creek

By ELDAR EMRIC - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, June 24, 2006 file photo, pilgrims pray around a statue of the Virgin Mary during afternoon prayer service in front of the St James' Church at Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Pope Francis says pilgrimages can be organized to a Bosnian shrine where the Virgin Mary is reported to have appeared, but the Vatican is stressing that no decision has yet been taken on whether the apparitions in Medjugorje are authentic (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)

Pope: It’s OK to organize pilgrimages to Bosnian shrine

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Bosnia top courts upholds ban of Serb holiday

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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 1992 file photo, Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader in Bosnia-Herzegovina, indicates the Serb territories in Yugoslavia during a news conference in London. Nearly a quarter of a century since Bosnia’s devastating war ended, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is set to hear the final judgment on whether he can be held criminally responsible for unleashing a wave of murder and destruction during Europe’s bloodiest carnage since World War II. United Nations appeals judges on Wednesday March 20, 2019, will decide whether to uphold or overturn Karadzic’s 2016 convictions for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and his 40-year sentence. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)

The Latest: Views of Bosnia war crimes case vary within govt

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FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2018 file photo, a group of migrants moves through a forest in the Pljesevica Mountain in a attempt to illegally cross the border into Croatia. Amnesty International released a report on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, that accuses European Union nations of complacency in the &quot;systematic, unlawful and frequently violent pushbacks&quot; by Croatian border guards of thousands of asylum-seekers to squalid and unsafe refugee camps in Bosnia. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)

Rights group: EU complicit in violence against migrants

By DARKO BANDIC - Associated Press

Members of the police forces of the Republic of Srpska, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during a parade marking the 27th anniversary of the Republic of Srpska, in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, celebrating a controversial holiday despite strong opposition from other ethnic groups in Bosnia who view it as discriminatory. The Jan. 9 holiday marks the date in 1992 when Bosnian Serbs declared the creation of their own state in Bosnia, igniting the country's devastating four-year war that killed over 100,000 people and left millions homeless. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Bosnian Serbs celebrate day that kicked off devastating war

By AMEL EMRIC - Associated Press

Bosnian prosecutors charge 13 with war crimes against Serbs

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Bosnian Serb police secure an area at the spot with the symbol of a raised hand and a picture of the late David Dragicevic on it, in Bosnian town of Banja Luka, northwest of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018. Bosnian Serb police have detained Davor Dragicevic, the man whose quest for the truth over the death of his son has sparked months of anti-government protests. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Bosnian Serbs detain man who led protests over son’s death

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Croatia denies police violently push migrants into Bosnia

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Flag dispute stalls talks on Bosnia’s new government

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, center, speaks with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, and Croatian Foreign Minister Majija Pejcinovic Buric, right, during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council and the Balkans at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

NATO gives Bosnia green light to advance on membership path

By LORNE COOK and SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. NATO foreign ministers meet for a two-day session beginning on Tuesday, to discuss among other issues, tensions between Russia and Ukraine and Moscow's missile development. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

NATO chief says Bosnia set for new move on membership path

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

In this Sept. 7, 2018 file photo, a truck passes by a billboard that reads: '&quot;Welcome, President&quot; and shows Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, near village of Lesak in northern Kosovo. Kosovo's government has decided to introduce a 100 percent import tax on all goods imported from Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Kosovo sets tariffs on Serbia, Bosnia as ties strain

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Members of Bosnia's newly elected tripartite presidency, Bosnian Serb member Milorad Dodik, foreground, Muslim member Sefik Dzaferovic, centre, and Croat member Zeljko Komsic, background, enter the room to attend the inauguration ceremony in Sarajevo, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. Bosnia’s three-member presidency has been inaugurated after last month’s election with nationalist politicians forming a majority on a body designed to heal the country’s ethnic divide. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Bosnia’s 3-member presidency takes office after Oct. vote

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Bosnia police move migrants camping near Croatia’s border

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A migrant girl reacts after her mother collapses after being sprayed with tear gas as migrants clashed with Croatian police near the border with Croatia, in Maljevac, Bosnia, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. Bosnian police blocked hundreds of migrants from crossing into European Union member Croatia on Tuesday, reflecting tensions as the war-ravaged country struggles with the influx. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Migrants, Bosnian police clash at Croatia border crossing

By AMEL EMRIC - Associated Press