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Coalition for Health, Ethics and Society (CHES)
Aileen McLeod Alberto-Horst Neidhardt Alice Berzolla Alison Hunter Almut Möller Amanda Paul Ana Berdzenishvili Andrew Duff Andrew Scott Anna Crawford Annalisa Buscaini Annika Hedberg Arancha González Laya Arnaldo-Javier Mina Mendoza Benedetta...

Sarajevo Run Fest 2025 to Bring Together Over 2,000 Runners from 50 Countries
On September 20 and 21, Sarajevo will host the Sarajevo Run Fest 2025, the largest running event in Bosnia and Herzegovina, celebrating this year a special milestone – the 18th edition of the Sarajevo Half Marathon. The two-day festival will...

Interview'Libya scenario' must be avoided in Sudan, says African Union Commission head
The chairman of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has warned against Sudan sliding into a Libyan-style scenario as it fractures between two rival governments. Libya has been divided since the 2011 fall of longtime ruler Muammar...

A new Era of Medical Transport and Transplantation: KCUS and EUFOR conducted Joint Training
A joint training of the EUFOR aviation unit and KCUS medical teams was carried out yesterday at the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo (KCUS), with the aim of strengthening the capacity for emergency medical transport and supporting the...

Hospital tends to SFOR troops
Black Hawk helicopters of the 498th Medical Company, an air ambulance group from Fort Benning, Georgia sit on landing pads at Guardian Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aug. 25, 1997. (Diane S. Lundholm/Stars and Stripes) This article first appeared...

Lessons from Bosnia for Palestinian statehood
Keir Starmer and other world leaders have committed to recognising the State of Palestine at the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), which started yesterday in New York. With Israeli forces having established control over 40 per cent of...

UN Commission puts world on notice – Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
A United Nations investigation has concluded Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, marking the strongest and most authoritative UN finding on the war to date. Stephanie Tran reports. In a report released Tuesday,...

Damon Linker on the Spiral of Violence in America
Damon Linker is a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania and writes the subscription newsletter “Notes from the Middleground” at Substack. He is the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test. He is currently...

Avdic and Schmidt: Sarajevo must make stronger use of all Development Resources
The Mayor of Sarajevo, Samir Avdić, hosted Christian Schmidt, the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, today at the City Hall, and informed him about current infrastructure projects and visions for the future development of the capital...

Grabovica marks 32 years since killing of Croat civilians in Bosnian war
During the attack, known as “Operation Neretva 93,” 33 civilians were killed, including 17 women and a four-year-old girl, Mladenka Zadro, who was shot in her mother’s arms on the doorstep of their home. The oldest victim was 87-year-old Marko...

Safic-Alcan expands partnership with Momentive to distribute silicone elastomers in Europe
Paris-La Défense – Safic-Alcan announced the extension of its distribution agreement with Momentive Performance Materials for silicone elastomers, including liquid silicone rubber (LSR), heat-cured rubber (HCR), and ready-to-use compounds. This...

EUFOR Trains Helicopter Unit for Medical Evacuations in Cooperation with KCUS
The EUFOR helicopter unit, consisting of helicopters from the Romanian contingent, is successfully conducting medical evacuation training in cooperation with teams from the Clinical Center of the University of Sarajevo (KCUS). After a detailed...

UN Inquiry: Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza
New York: In its most damning conclusion yet, a United Nations independent inquiry has found that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and that senior leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, incited the crimes....

Bosnia’s Banja Luka, My Ethnically Cleansed Hometown
Almost all of Banja Luka’s Muslims and Croats – about 30 percent of the prewar population – had left the city, the vast majority already in the first year of war, in 1992. During this campaign of systematic violence, many of my closest childhood...

Sewer: The NYT was signalling to its audience that Kirk was not really a victim
In civilisational terms, the murder of Charlie Kirk was a random act by a deranged individual whose contemptible motives deserve little analysis and even less mercy. Let one ten-rupee bullet settle what another began, while good America...

Death of humanity in Bosnia and Gaza
Bosnia and Gaza are not randomly chosen geographies. Both are lands that historically sustained experiences of multiculturalism, multifaith coexistence, and shared life. Gaza, too, has long been part of a multilayered social fabric, hosting...
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
OHCHR GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today. The...

US Urged to Revoke Citizenship of Bosnian War Crimes Suspect
‘Luka’ camp in Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photo: BIRN The United States Justice Department says Slobodan Letic should have his US citizenship revoked for concealing his involvement in the beating, torture and sexual assault of civilians in...

Church, Red Cross and government collaborate to strengthen emergency preparedness in Bosnia-Herzegovina
3 Sept 2025, 4:00 a.m. MDT SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — One year after floods and landslides devastated communities across Bosnia and Herzegovina, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Red Cross of the Federation of Bosnia and...

Sarajevo museum donates Jewish manuscript funds to Gaza amid controversy
SARAJEVO: Bosnia’s national museum has defended its decision to donate funds from displaying a precious Jewish manuscript to support Gaza’s population. Museum director Mirsad Sijaric stated that ticket sales for viewing the Sarajevo Haggadah would...