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British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean perform the routine which gave them the first, and so far only, perfect score in Olympic skating history, Bolero, during an ice skating show, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The pair received a warm welcome as they returned to Sarajevo to mark the 40th anniversary of their gold medal-winning Winter Olympic performance. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Ice dancers Torvill and Dean return to Sarajevo on 40th anniversary of their Winter Olympic gold

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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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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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The afternoon sun illuminates hotels and houses in Vlasic, a ski resort affected by unusual warm weather in Bosnia, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. The exceptional wintertime warmth is affecting ski resorts across Bosnia, prompting tourism authorities in parts of the country to consider declaring a state of natural emergency. (AP Photo/Almir Alic)

Bosnian ski resorts suffer as Europe sees record warm winter

By Sabina Niksic and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Mourners preparing to bury the remains of a person who died from complications related to COVID-19 at the Sarajevo cemetery Vlakovo, Bosnia, Friday, March 19, 2021. Hospitals and the morgue in Sarajevo are overwhelmed as dozens of people died in the past days since the sharp rise in virus infections has been recorded throughout the country. (AP Photo)

Bosnian capital tightens rules as COVID-19 deaths spike

By ELDAR EMRIC - Associated Press

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

In this Thursday, April 9, 2020 photo two clerics pray inside the 16th century built Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia, as worshipers stay away due to the national lockdown the authorities have imposed attempting to limit the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

AP PHOTOS: Pandemic meets religious holidays in Sarajevo

By KEMAL SOFTIC and SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

Medical staff gesture in the triage unit of the Vrazova community health center in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Less than three weeks ago, the respected Bosnian epidemiologist Sefik Pasagic was fielding calls from journalists seeking his opinion and advice on how best to prepare for the coronavirus outbreak. The 60-year-old father of four died of complications from the COVID-19 infection which his wife describes as an unnecessarily long and desperate struggle to get the help he needed.(AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Epidemiologist’s COVID-19 death raises concern in Bosnia

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

Hilltops and a TV tower are surrounded by fog in Sarajevo, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. The local government in Sarajevo issued a warning to residents to avoid spending time outdoors as extremely high pollution levels are being recorded in the air of Bosnian capital in last two days. (AP Photo/Eldar Emric)

Bosnian capital of Sarajevo hit by dangerous air pollution

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

This aerial photo taken Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, shows small hydropower plant under construction on Lasva river, near village of Merdani, Bosnia. Environmental groups and activists have warned that unspoiled rivers in the Balkans are in danger from small hydropower plants that have been sprouting throughout the region. (AP Photo/Eldar Emric)

Activists warn Balkan rivers at risk from hydropower plants

By ELDAR EMRIC - Associated Press

Bosnian police arrest 3 people after migrant dies in fight

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Bosnia police arrest 2 for attack on radio station over news

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Participant blows a whistle during the country's first ever LGBT pride parade in downtown Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. Sarajevo is the last capital city in the Balkans to hold a pride parade after neighboring countries moved to improve LGBT rights. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Bosnian capital holds 1st pride parade amid heavy security

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 24, 2008 file photo, Bosnian police officers stand guard at the entrance to Sarajevo's Art Academy, as people protest against Bosnia's first gay festival, which is being held at the academy, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Bosnia’s embattled LGBT community will defy threats of violence this weekend to hold the country’s first ever gay Pride march and appeal for solidarity in a society ripped apart by war-era divisions and poverty. The event will be held in the capital Sarajevo on Sunday Sept. 8, 2019, under tight security to stave off possible attacks by extremist groups that have disrupted similar events in the past. (AP Photo/Amel Emric, File)

Bosnia’s 1st LGBT parade defies threats, urges tolerance

By ELDAR EMRIC - Associated Press

Bruce Dickinson poses for cameras with his honorary citizen certificate at the city hall in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Saturday, April 6, 2019. Bosnia's capital Sarajevo has declared Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson an honorary citizen in gratitude for the concert the heavy metal band held while the city was under siege during 1992-95 war. (AP Photo/Eldar Emric)

Iron Maiden singer made honorary citizen of Bosnia’s capital

By Eldar Emric - Associated Press

Exterior view of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, ICTY, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, where the court is scheduled to deliver its verdicts in the genocide trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic on Wednesday Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Landmark Mladic verdict closely watched in the Balkans

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

In this image taken from video Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic listens to the verdict at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, The Netherlands Thursday March 24, 2016. Karadzic was convicted of genocide and nine other charges Thursday at a U.N. court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. (ICTY, Pool via AP)

Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian Serb leader, convicted of genocide, sentenced to 40 years

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Pope Francis caresses a boy as he arrives at the John Paul II Diocesan Youth Center, in Sarajevo, Saturday, June 6, 2015. Pope Francis witnessed the horrors of Bosnia's fratricidal war of the 1990s and its slow process of healing Saturday during a one-day visit to Sarajevo, where he urged Muslims, Orthodox and Catholics to put the "barbarity" of the past behind them and work together for a peaceful future. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope tells Bosnians to be ‘tenacious’ workers for peace

By by Ann Schneible - Catholic News Agency