Karadzic, 63, who is representing himself with the help of legal advisers, had allowed a judge in August to enter a plea of "not guilty" for him on charges of war crimes and genocide, including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica.
A Belgrade court has issued arrest warrants for 19 former Bosnian officials over a 1992 attack on troops of the former Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), a spokeswoman said.
The U.S. State Department has issued its annual report assessing human rights around the world during 2008, and Russia and a number of European and Caucasus countries come in for stiff criticism. The report describes civil liberties as "under siege" in Russia, and says that Belarus continues to have "very poor" rights practices. We summarize the report in a two-part series. Here in Part 2, we look at the assessment of Eastern European and Caucasus states.
The soon-to-be-appointed European Union high representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina is not much more likely to be successful than his worthy predecessors. The new envoy will certainly take office on a wave of positive rhetoric and verbal commitments, but that wave will soon crash against the hard realities on the ground in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In the former Yugoslavia, language and politics are closely intertwined. The once single common language, Serbo-Croatian, has now become Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. But are they really separate languages?
The authorities of the Bosnian Serb controlled town Banja Luka must pay $42 million to its Islamic community for 16 local mosques destroyed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, a local magistrate ruled on February 20.
Nationalism in Bosnia is a strong drug that keeps the country deeply divided. Independent voices are not being heard. So where is the global city of Sarajevo that hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics?
In 1984, Bosnians could visit European countries without visas. Today, they need documents to go anywhere. Twenty-five years ago, Yugoslavia was 20 years ahead of the rest of Eastern Europe in terms of development, and now Bosnia is 20 years behind. That's a long way to fall in just 25 years.
European Union peacekeepers in Bosnia have searched houses belonging to the family of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic, the last remaining high-profile war crimes suspect from Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
Richard Holbrooke, who is touring Afghanistan and Pakistan as Barack Obama's special envoy, is best known as the hard-nosed diplomat who brokered a peace deal for Bosnia in 1995. What does Holbrooke's legacy in the Balkans mean for the daunting task ahead in South Asia?
Bosnian Prime Minister Nikola Spiric says that Bosnia-Herzegovina's economy will be less affected by the global economic slowdown than neighboring countries.
A Bosnian Muslim woman expelled from her home by Serbian forces in 1992 was sentenced to a month probation for interrupting a church service.
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