Bosnia and Herzegovina News

A few hundred Bosnians on Saturday vented their spleen at political leaders in a shoe-throwing protest in Sarajevo inspired by an Iraqi journalist's footwear attack on George W...Young and old alike threw shoes in downtown Sarajevo at effigies of leading...

BOK Financial says 'no' to fed bailout funds Tulsa-based BOK Financial Corp. has elected not to participate in the Treasury’s Capital Purchase Program, the financial services company announced Wednesday. The program, which is part of the Troubled Assets Relief Program,...

Three Algerian-born prisoners have returned to their adopted homeland of Bosnia in the first release under court order from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The three were among five Algerians ordered to be released last month by...

Here are some other key numbers associated with today's 26th running of the California International Marathon: Participants: About 11,500, including 3,000 relay participants and an additional 2,000 in the 2.62-mile Kaiser Permanente maraFUNrun and Fitness Walk (with most of those...

Mr Idir, along with two other detainees released from Guantanamo, Mohamed Nechla and Hadji Boudella, arrived in Bosnia yesterday. The three, who were held at Guantanamo for almost seven years, were the first inmates to have been released by the US...

Forensic experts said they have uncovered about 1,000 skeletal remains of Bosnian victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in a mass grave. Documents recovered from the grave in the village of Kamenica, dubbed “Death Valley”, showed the victims were from...

X-mas news from Bosnia were a bit confusing. The directors of Sarajevo’s day-care centres, kindergartens and pre-schools banned Santa. I personally detest Santa – especially its Coce version – but if someone likes him it’s up to them. More serious...