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...And Herzegovina Facing Worst Crisis In Years, Security Council Hears New York, May 9 2011 - Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing its worst crisis since fighting stopped in 1995, with no prospect of a new state government being formed, a stalled economy and a direct threat...
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Scoop - New Zealand News
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1105/S00192/bosnia-and-herzegovina-facing-worst-crisis-in-years.htm
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...Union. Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik — for some time at odds with the West — says Serbs would rather drop the idea of Bosnia joining the EU if that means they must transfer more power from their regional government to federal institutions. Dodik has called...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/top-rep-warns-un-940080.html
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...necessary,” he said. Recent visits by top EU officials to Sarajevo were helping drive the pro-EU message, he said, adding that Bosnia should be able to apply for EU membership this year. The move is likely to happen only with tacit approval from Brussels even...
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Dawn
http://www.dawn.com/2011/04/30/bosnia-needs-strong-message-from-eu.html
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...March 3 in Vienna, on a Serbian warrant for war crimes committed in Dobrovoljačka Street in Sarajevo in 1992. Both Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina are seeking Divjak's extradition, and Barašin said Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević was to...
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B92
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...on Friday. "This is all about the politics. I believe there is no chance to vote in the new statute which means the end of Bosnian football. They do not want the Bosnian soccer to heal." Former Yugoslavia striker and Ivory Coast coach Vahid Halilhodzic,...
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FourFourTwo.com
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...the 1992 attack on a Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) convoy that was leaving Sarajevo peacefully according to an agreement with Bosnian officials. "It is a bad thing that all the public, foreigners and the international high representative start defending suspected...
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B92
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...Serb war crimes allegations are political By VERONIKA OLEKSYN Associated Press Amel Emric Bosnian people display the Bosnian war time flag and photos of retired Bosnian Army general Jovan Divjak, during a protest against his detention, in Sarajevo, Bosnia,...
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KansasCity.com
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http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/08/2707030/bosnia-serb-war-crimes-allegations.html#storylink=rss
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...that the new measures will be used against "anyone deemed to be obstructive", including Milorad Dodik, the elected prime Bosnian Serb prime minister, who backs independence from Bosnia. "Dodik will not be a happy bunny but he will have to watch his Ps and...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bosnia/7912675/Baroness-Ashton-moves-to-take-control-of-Bosnia.html
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The Associated Press | - AP Croatian President Ivo Josipovic,center, Cardinals of Bosnian Catholic Church Vinko Puljic, left, and Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric, right, pay respects in front of a monument dedicated to Bosnian Muslims killed during
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San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/15/croatian-president-honors-war-victims-in-bosnia/
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SARAJEVO --
Croatian President Ivo Josipović has apologized in Sarajevo for Croatia's participation in a policy aimed at partitioning Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990s.
In his speech before MPs of both houses of the Bosnia-Herzegovinas
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B92
http://www.b92.net//eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=04&dd=15&nav_id=66491
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* Josipovic voices regret for Croatia's role in Bosnia's war
* Plans visit to a site of a 1993 Croat massacre of Muslims
* Says time to forgive and focus on joint future
By Maja Zuvela and Paul Taylor
SARAJEVO, April 14 (Reuters) - Croatian
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE63D1FP.htm
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Next february 7th at Warsaw the draw of the groups for Euro 2012 Qualifiers will take place, there will be 8 groups, 6 groups of 6 teams and 2 groups of 5 teams.
Bosnia will be placed in Pot 3, together with Israel, Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, Republic
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Footbo blogs
http://www.footbo.com/Blogs/71377-Bosnia_Euro_2012_Qualifiers_Draw
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Bosnia's constitution discriminates against Jews and Roma because it does not allow them to run for parliament or president, the European Court of Human Rights said in a ruling Tuesday.
The court said Bosnia
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/world/79901532.html
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SARAJEVO LETTER:Â A debate over whether the mandate should be extended for a group of international judges has escalated into a dramatic political stand-off, writes
GARRET TANKOVIC-KELLYÂ
AS BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA slides back into a quagmire, the naysayers
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Irish Times
http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/851/f/10846/s/7dc32a1/l/0L0Sirishtimes0N0Cnewspaper0Cworld0C20A0A90C12160C1224260A7610A0A50Bhtml/story01.htm
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"Bosnia needs our immediate attention," a Dec. 10 MinnPost Community Voices commentary by Kelly Baker, paints a melodramatic portrait of a country that has been at peace for nearly 15 years. It would be wrong to underestimate the horrors of the war
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MinnPost.com
http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2009/12/15/14283/what_bosnia-herzegovina_needs_from_us_is_good_judgment_common_sense
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday, the U.S. Institute of Peace held a conference which put to question the need for constitutional reform in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). Several participants were highly critical of the
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/washington-dc-conference-reveals-changing-sentiment-on-constitutional-reform-in-bosnia-herzegovina-78972232.html
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SARAJEVO, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Bosnia faces judicial chaos with hundreds of prosecutions in limbo unless it keeps on foreign jurists at its state court, whose mandate expires this month, international and Bosnian officials said on Wednesday.
"All these
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEE5B80YT.htm
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A witness in the Hague tribunal trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic told judges this week that he was used as a “human shield” by Serbian forces in 1992.
Edin Hadzovic, who was held captive in Doboj, Bosnia, told judges that after the 1990
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Institute for War & Peace Reporting
http://www.iwpr.net/EN-tri-f-358020
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BRUSSELS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - NATO offered a formal membership plan to Montenegro on Friday but withheld an invitation to its Balkan neighbour Bosnia, saying it needed further democratic reforms and a more effective military first.
Membership for
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEE5B2259.htm
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- NATO foreign ministers were locked in disagreement Thursday about whether to place Bosnia-Herzegovinaon a path to membership of the Western alliance.
    After several hours of talks, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh
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Xinhua
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/04/content_12585109.htm
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Ya hace 14 años que terminĂł la guerra de Bosnia, y hoy el paĂs sigue sumido en un punto de inflexiĂłn. La mitad de Ă©l está estancado en una disputa con el gobernador internacional, el Alto Representante. Es hora de que la comunidad internacional elija
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Crisis Group
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6407
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Bosnia won't collapse without its crutches, and the sooner they are removed, the better.
Fourteen years after its foundations were set on an American air base, Bosnia's constitutional architecture is being shaken to the core, and many Bosnians - and
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Crisis Group
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http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6412
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While European Union officials have given Bosnia-Herzegovina the high sign that its aspirations to join the EU are improving, United Nations diplomats there say the political situation is bleak because of continued infighting, and EU troops will have
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New Europe News
http://www.neurope.eu/articles/97797.php
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By Daria Sito-Sucic
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia, Nov 25 (Reuters Life!) - You'd never guess at first glance whether Bosnian teen Tanja Bekic is Muslim, Serb, Catholic or from a mixed marriage and that's the point of attending a Catholic school.
The
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEE5AO22I.htm
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(SARAJEVO) - Representatives of the international community on Thursday said they were concerned by Bosnia's lack of progress in meeting conditions needed to bring it closer to Europe.
In a statement, the 55-nation Peace Implementation Council (PIC)
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EUbusiness
http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/bosnia-diplomacy.1j4
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Portugal's Raul Meireles, centre, celebrates with his team-mates Paulo Ferreira, left, and Pepe, right, after scoring in Zenica. Photograph: Radu Sigheti/Reuters
Portugal reached next year's World Cup finals in South Africa after a 1-0 win in
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/nov/18/world-cup-bosnia-herzegovina-portugal
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Bosnia & Herzegovina's hopes of qualifying for a first World Cup were on a knife edge when the home leg of their World Cup Qualifying playoff against Portugal kicked off this evening. Ultimately, a tricky pitch, noisy crowd and a handful of talented
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Two Footed Tackle
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChrisNee/~3/HDzX87hId2g/wcq-bosnia-herzegovina-0-1-portugal-0-2.html
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Fourteen years after its brutal war ended, Bosnia is
today in political, if not literal, turmoil. Half of the country is deadlocked
in a feud with the international governor, the High Representative. And a
meeting this week of the Peace Implementation
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Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/18/bosnia_s_continuing_chaos
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When FIFA announced back in September that they were going to seed the UEFA European playoffs for World Cup 2010 qualification, they instantly drew the ire of countless people collectively crying 'FIX!' Given the announcement came a matter of weeks
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Soccer Blogs
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SoccerBlogs/~3/KcKmJOZOY0E/
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Extracts from Derek Bragg's dossier complied after Bosnia played Spain last month
Portugal's Carlos Queiroz asked The Scouting Network for a dossier on his side's World Cup play-off opponents Bosnia. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images
If
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/nov/18/scouting-network-portugal-bosnia-alvechurch
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The killing may have subsided, but the mess in the Balkans lingers on.
Fourteen years after its brutal war ended, Bosnia is today in political, if not literal, turmoil. Half of the country is deadlocked in a feud with the international governor, the
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Crisis Group
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http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6395
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An international body known as the Peace Implementation Council is meeting November 18-19 in Sarajevo to discuss Bosnia-Herzegovina's political future.
The council was created in December 1995, shortly after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords
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Voice of America
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-11-17-voa41.cfm?rss=europe
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Ciro Blazevic's Bosnia lost 1-0 in the first leg of their World Cup play-off with Portugal. Photograph: Danilo Krstanovic/Reuters
Ciro Blazevic is confident. Of course he is: when was he ever anything else? The Bosnia manager is a man you can imagine,
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/nov/17/ciro-blazevic-bosnia-portugal-play-off
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We saw a very interesting and a combative affair when these teams met few days ago. Even though my pick over 2.5 goals was wrong, you could see the game didn’t lack chances. The Bosnians deserved at least a draw but were very unlucky in the final third.
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Ed's Picks
http://www.edspicks.com/2009/11/bosnia-and-herzegowina-portugal.html
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An international body known as the Peace Implementation Council is meeting November 18-19 in Sarajevo to discuss Bosnia-Herzegovina's political future.
The council was created in December 1995, shortly after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords that
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Voice of America
http://www1.voanews.com/r?19=961&43=571122&44=70423947&32=7079&7=580897&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww1.voanews.com%2Fenglish%2Fnews%2Fa-13-2009-11-17-voa41-70423947.html
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Shorn of Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal secured only a 1-0 victory over Bosnia on Saturday and must now negotiate what looks a very tricky second leg away from home if they are to reach the World Cup. The Bosnia coach Miroslav Blazevic, for one, believes
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/internationals/bosnia-pledge-to-spring-surprise-on-portuguese-1821291.html
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"It's going to be close. We'll suffer till the final whistle," Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz said of Wednesday's decider in Zenica.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Portugal's slender 1-0 advantage over Bosnia-Herzegovina after the first-leg World Cup
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FOX Sports
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/foxsports/rss/soccer/~3/VF3nSmstFAw/Slim-Portugal-lead-gives-Bosnia-WC-playoff-hope
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Portugal's Deco takes a free kick during the World Cup play-off first leg against Bosnia-Herzegovina. Photograph: Marcos Borga/Reuters
Portugal will take a slender advantage into the second leg of their World Cup qualification play-off against
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/nov/15/portugal-bosnia-herzegovina-world-cup
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Portugal have defeated Bosnia at the Estadio da Luz today 1-0 to take the first leg as the teams now move to Bosnia for the second leg on Wednesday. Portugal was clearly the better team in this game but was also the lucky team as Bosnia hit two
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Sports Blogs
http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2183314&src=rss
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SARAJEVO - Verstaile midfielder Haris Medunjanin still hopes FIFA will approve his application to change nationality in time for him to play in the first leg of Bosnia's World Cup play-off with Portugal on Saturday.
The 24-year old was born in Sarajevo
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FourFourTwo.com
http://fourfourtwo.com/news/worldcup2010/42169/default.aspx
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Croatian army general Ivan Beneta testified this week at the Hague tribunal in the defence of wartime Bosnian Croat official Milivoj Petkovic, saying that Croatia had had no other way to defend itself than by sending troops into the territory of
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Institute for War & Peace Reporting
http://www.iwpr.net/EN-tri-f-357449
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Stuttering All The Way
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In what promises to be a tense and edgy affair, Portugal and Bosnia-Herzegovina meet on Saturday for the first leg of their World-Cup play-off. Portugal have stuttered up until now, finishing behind Denmark in their
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Goal.com
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1646/wcq-2010-europe/2009/11/13/1621969/world-cup-qualifying-preview-portugal-bosnia-herzegovina
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On
Oct. 17, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which boasts the largest concentration of
Bosnian Muslims outside Bosnia, published one of its typical
Bosniak-bruise-stroking pieces, this time in the Religion section by writer Tim
Townsend. The particular
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Atlas Shrugs
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic said Thursday the success of Bosnia's Serb Republic helped her survive her years in jail, but she does not plan to return to politics. Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb president,
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1329589.html
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"I know what I am getting into,” said Miro Blazevic after he was unveiled as the new coach of Bosnia-Herzegovina back in July 2008.
“I will have to unite and calm everybody down. I will do my best to justify the confidence I was trusted and I am
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Goal.com
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2009/11/11/1617941/world-cup-debate-bosnia-herzegovina-believe-in-blazevic
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RADOVAN KARADZIC threatened months before the start of the Bosnian war that 300,000 Muslims would die while the forces under his command turned Sarajevo into a “black cauldron”.
He told colleagues Bosnia’s Muslims would “disappear from the face of the
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Irish Times
http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/851/f/10846/s/6ce282a/l/0L0Sirishtimes0N0Cnewspaper0Cworld0C20A0A90C10A280C122425755450A20Bhtml/story01.htm
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The stage was all set, but the star failed to appear: the trial of Radovan
Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader and alleged architect of the savage
1992-95 war in Bosnia, started without the defendant at the international
war-crimes court in the
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Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932705,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular
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By Bob Dole When it announced that it was giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama last month, the Nobel Committee praised the president for his efforts on climate change. It also said in its citation that, with Mr. Obama now in office, a
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574481010694996906.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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EU and US envoys kicked off a second round of crucial talks on Bosnia's future on Tuesday, even though most of the country's Serb, Croat and Muslim leaders said a proposed reform package was unacceptable.
The 1995 Dayton peace agreement, negotiated
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EurActive.com
http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/bosnia-herzegovina-holds-crucial-talks-eu-us/article-186589?Ref=RSS
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ZURICH (AP) France will face Ireland in a two-leg playoff for a spot at next year's World Cup in South Africa, while Portugal was drawn Monday to play Bosnia-Herzegovina.
France got perhaps the toughest test of the four seeded teams. The French will
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USA Today
http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/UsatodaycomSports-TopStories/~3/k_LB65SPn8k/2009-10-19-playoff-draw_N.htm
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