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Digital Signal Officially Arrives in Bosnia and Herzegovina
After many years of expectations and delays, Bosnia and Herzegovina is today taking a major step towards the future of television technology. The country is finally switching from analogue to digital television, joining the modern digital world...

Young scientists from Turkmenistan won gold at an international competition in Malaysia
Young scientists from Turkmenistan have won gold medals, having performed with great success at the prestigious International competition of innovative creativity Borneo BIICC-2025 (Borneo International Innovation Creativity Competition), held in...

Croatia Airlines expands with five new international routes from Zagreb
(Photo: Croatia Airlines) Zagreb, 1 July 2025 – Croatia’s national carrier has significantly strengthened its international flight network this summer by launching five new seasonal routes from the capital. Passengers can now fly directly from...

Senior Chinese official receives parliamentarian from Bosnia
Wang, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said that in recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and the BiH Presidency, the two countries have maintained solid...

WWII hero, 102, gets proper military send-off from community and veterans who turned up en masse for his funeral after he died with no surviving relatives
A WWII hero has received a proper military send-off at his funeral as locals and veterans turned up en masse after the 102-year-old died with no surviving relatives. William 'Bill' Darnell, who lived all his life in Hull, East Yorkshire, was...
China's top political advisor meets deputy speaker of BiH's House of Representatives
BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) -- China's top political advisor Wang Huning met with Marinko Cavara, deputy speaker of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in Beijing on Tuesday. Wang, chairman of...

The End of American Soft Power; The Resurgence of American Hard Power
By Anil Madan On March 1, 2025, Associated Press (AP) reported that the Trump administration had eliminated more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding. These decisions, AP stated, left millions of people without...

Bosnia High Representative: Politicians should know Hamas is Iranian terror branch - interview

MP Magazinovic: Croatia banned BiH companies from Participating in Public Procurement
The head of the SDPBiH Club in the House of Representatives of the state parliament, Saša Magazinović, sent a parliamentary question to the Chairperson of the Council of Ministers of BiH, Borjana Krišto, and the Minister of Foreign Trade and...

UPDATE: Bosnian man cleared of torture charges to appear in court for plea deal hearing
UPDATE: A Bosnian man who was cleared of torture charges will be back in federal court for a plea deal over a pending charge of passport fraud. Court records filed on June 17 show that 53-year-old Sead Miljković has agreed to plead guilty to one...

EBRD and EU finance renovation of Sarajevo water supply network
Work on Sarajevo’s water distribution network, which is being financed with a €25 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), has received an additional boost from a €3.8 million European Union (EU) investment...

Deputy Foreign Minister of Spain Confirms Attendance at 30th Anniversary of Srebrenica Genocide
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Elmedin Konaković, held a meeting in Sarajevo today with the Ambassador of Spain to Bosnia and Herzegovina, María Molina Álvarez de Toledo, who stated that Spain provides consistent...

In The ’80s, Some Yugoslav Rockers Made Songs About Homosexual Love
Despite the progressiveness of these bands, the next decade saw a sort of reversal. From Global Voices. As Yugoslavia’s mainstream society grew increasingly patriarchal during the 1980s, some of the country’s rock bands would routinely perform...

Sweden Pledges Ongoing Support For Bosnia's Financial Sector Reforms (PHOTO)
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 30. The Governor of the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CBBiH), Jasmina Selimović, hosted the Ambassador of Sweden to Bosnia and Herzegovina, H.E. Helena Lagerlöf, Trend reports via the...

‘Death to the IDF’
What began as a defiant chant by a single British artist at Glastonbury has erupted into a global phenomenon— a symbolic battle cry that has echoed across continents. “Death to the IDF,” shouted from the stage by Bobby Vylan of the punk-rap duo...

Reilly: Decision to form Reserve Police Force in RS leads to Escalation
The British Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Julian Reilly, has spoken out about the introduction of a reserve, or auxiliary, police force in the Republika Srpska. Yesterday, the RS National Assembly adopted the Draft Law on Amendments to the...

Bosnia Jails Man for Planning Terror Attack on Mosque
Bosnia's state court has confirmed the verdict sentencing Mirza Kapic to four-and-a-half years in prison for planning a terrorist attack on a mosque in the city of Zenica in 2023. Mirza Kapic in the courtroom. Photo: Court of Bosnia and...
FM visits Srebrenica massacre exhibition
Ljubljana, 4 July - Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon visited the Ljubljana Islamic Religious and Cultural Centre on Thursday to see an exhibition commemorating the victims of the Srebrenica genocide in 1995. She expressed satisfaction with friendly...

Across the political spectrum, leaders are pushing a harder line on people lacking permanent legal status
Procaccini’s party, Brothers of Italy, is now very popular in Italy. Its leader, Giorgia Meloni, is the country’s prime minister. And Procaccini is a chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists group, a big force in the European Parliament....

Meet Dua Lipa's VERY glamorous lookalike mother who escaped the Bosnian war and trained to be a lawyer
With her flawless complexion, chic sense of style and uncanny resemblance to her famous daughter, Dua Lipa's mother has all the makings of a popstar herself. At 52, Anesa Lipa has become something of a sensation in her own right, having racked up...