Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Karadzic says needs more time for genocide defense

Reuters US Online Report World News 17 days ago

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared in court on Tuesday for the first time since his trial for genocide started but said he would take no further part unless he had more time to prepare his defense. ...

Balkans to nominate medieval tombstones to U.N. list

Reuters Life! Online Report 18 days ago

SARAJEVO (Reuters Life!) - Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro agreed on Monday to nominate medieval tombstones scattered across the region and known as 'Stecci' as their shared cultural heritage to the UN World Heritage List. Government ministers from the countries that were ...

Bosnia Serb leader says has quit EU, U.S. talks

Reuters US Online Report World News 21 days ago

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - The prime minister of Bosnia's Serb half said on Friday he would pull out of talks on constitutional reform led by the United States and European Union set to speed up Bosnia's path to EU and NATO ...

Bosnian president angry over war criminal release

AP News 23 days ago

Bosnian president cancels trip to Sweden to protest war criminal's early release Bosnia's top official canceled a diplomatic visit to Sweden on Wednesday, angry that the Swedish government chose to grant Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic an early release from jail. ...

Genocide trial begins, Karadzic fails to show up

AP News 24 days ago

Prosecutor says Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic was 'undisputed' leader of wartime Serb forces Radovan Karadzic's words urging the destruction of Bosnia's non-Serbs rang out in a courtroom Tuesday from speeches and intercepted phone calls as U.N. prosecutors opened their genocide and war ...

Karadzic 'supreme commander' of ethnic cleansing: trial

AFP Global Edition 24 days ago

The genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic went ahead without him Tuesday, with prosecutors branding him "supreme commander" of an ethnic cleansing campaign in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. "This case is about that supreme commander, a man who harnessed the forces of nationalism, ...

Karadzic genocide trial resumes in his absence

AFP Global Edition 24 days ago

The genocide trial of Radovan Karadzic went ahead without him Tuesday, with prosecutors branding him "supreme commander" of an ethnic cleansing campaign during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. "This case is about that supreme commander, a man who harnessed the forces of nationalism, ...

Bosnian Serb ex-leader Plavsic in Belgrade after prison release

AFP Global Edition 24 days ago

Bosnian Serb ex-leader Biljana Plavsic returned to her home in Serbia Tuesday from a prison in Sweden after a UN court granted her early release from an 11-year jail sentence for war crimes. Plavsic, 79, landed shortly after 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) ...

Bosnian Serb war criminal Plavsic back in Serbia

Reuters US Online Report World News 24 days ago

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Radovan Karadzic's successor as Bosnian Serb president left Swedish prison on Tuesday and arrived in Belgrade after winning early release from her sentence for committing war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague convicted ...

APTOPIX Serbia War Crimes Plavsic

AP News 24 days ago

Former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic reacts after she has arrived in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 following her release from a Swedish prison after serving two-thirds of her 11-year sentence for war crimes. She was sentenced in 2003 after pleading ...

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