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Sarajevo’s Ottoman-era Latin Bridge over the River Miljacka – Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated nearby.

This place challenges every notion of what a European city feels like

If you had to guess where in the world you were by looking at a single street, you’d have little chance of identifying Sarajevo.

  • Brian Johnston

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A Muslim man mourns next to the coffin of his relative, a victim of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, in Potocari, Bosnia on Sunday

A generation after the Bosnian genocide, we still haven’t broken the cycle of hate

On this day – July 11 – 28 years ago, Bosnian Serb forces murdered thousands of Bosniak boys and men in Srebrenica. That slaughter should continue to inspire us to fight extremism wherever we find it.

  • Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia spent $US300 million to covertly influence world politics, says US

The release of the State Department cable is the latest effort by the Biden administration to declassify intelligence about Moscow’s military and political aims.

  • Nomaan Merchant
The Bosnian farmer’s spinning house.

‘I did what she wanted’: spinning shack a farmer’s tribute to restless wife

Using electric motors and the wheels of an old military transport vehicle, the Bosnian home can turn a full circle in 22 seconds.

  • Sabina Niksic
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic mimics photographers taking pictures as he waits to hear the result of his appeal on Tuesday.

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ Ratko Mladic loses genocide appeal in UN court

The rejection of Mladic’s appeals closed a grim chapter in European history that included the continent’s first genocide since World War II.

  • Mike Corder
A grey heron stands between dumped plastic bottles and barrels on the bank of the Potpecko Lake on the Lim river, near city of Priboj, Serbia,

'Floating landfill': huge islands of litter choke Balkan rivers, lakes

Plastic bottles and bags, rusty barrels and other garbage could be seen clogging the Drina river near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad.

  • Eldar Emric
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Migrants wraps himself in blanket in Bosnia

'If they not help us, we will die': hundreds stranded outside in snow

Around 1000 migrants are stuck at a border with no heat and shelter after a fire destroyed a migrant camp in north-west Bosnia.

Singapore's hawker markets have been recognised by UNESCO as living heritage.

UNESCO adds Singapore hawker stalls, Balkan grass mowing to cultural heritage list

The annual update to the United Nations' living heritage list includes hawker food, competitive grass mowing and camel racing - but no Australian customs.

A Bosnian Muslim woman cries at the graves of relatives in Srebrenica on the anniversary of the massacre.

Srebrenica massacre leaves its mark 25 years on

Bosnian officials say there is still widespread denial of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II.

  • Sabina Niksic
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the court room of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague this week.

Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic jailed for life over genocidal massacres

War crimes tribunal said Karadzic's crimes in Sarajevo and Srebrenica were noted for their "sheer scale and systematic cruelty".

  • Nick Miller

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