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The government will start making websites more inclusive for people with visual impairments and hearing disabilities, but a lot of work remains for a real breakthrough.
A BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary about the experiences of a wartime detention camp inmate whose family was killed while he was imprisoned was premiered in Sarajevo.
Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic has unleashed the full and frightening force of a state security apparatus moulded to answer only to him.
It remains unclear why war crimes prosecutors in Bosnia have never investigated Bosnian Croat lawmaker Dragan Konta, despite a 2017 court ruling identifying him as the military police commander at ...
The owners of the biggest broadcasters in Albania have all benefitted from ‘strategic investor’ status granted by the government for other projects, raising doubts about editorial independence.
On October 8, 2024, a Bulgarian company contacted a US arms firm called Regulus Global with an offer to supply 122,000 tons of Chinese TNT explosives, worth almost a billion dollars.
The UN court in The Hague again rejected a plea for early release from prison from Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’.
Court orders a month's detention for Ramadan Morina, who is suspected of taking part in massacre of 34 Kosovo Albanians in Burim in 1999 alongside Serbian forces.
For a fifth night in a row, protests in Serbia were marked by clashes between demonstrators and police – with each side accusing the other of provoking conflict.
Greece is battling escalating wildfires as relentless hot weather and dozens of new blazes test the limits of its firefighting forces.
The US State Department’s annual human rights report said Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik undermined Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional order while Bosnian Serb leaders used ...
The Albanian police’s action – forcing the country’s largest news broadcaster off air without a court order – sets an alarming precedent.