English actor John Cleese poses for photo as he walks on the red carpet to receive Sarajevo Film Festival’s top honour award, the Heart of Sarajevo Award, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. | Amel Emric, Associated PressFor quite sometime now, famed British actor John Cleese has been a Utah Jazz fan, which he says stems from when they played the Chicago Bulls in the 1997 and 1998 NBA Finals.

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Bosnia is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections among migrants and refugees living in its camps, as it struggles to cope with one of the Balkans' highest COVID-19 death and infection rates among the general population.

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Struggling Bosnia sees infection surge in migrants, refugees

Hundreds of Bosnians staged a protest in the capital Sarajevo on Tuesday, demanding the resignations of top government officials over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic and failure to launch a nationwide vaccination programme. The demonstration came as the country reported a further 99 deaths from COVID-19, the highest daily toll since the pandemic began last year and

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Olivia Sudjic's second novel, Asylum Road, ranges from London to Sarajevo and explores displacement, exile, and refuge.

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OLIVIA SUDJIC Asylum Road. Reviewed by Ann Skea - The Newtown Review of Books

The United Nations mission in Bosnia called Monday for urgent action to stop violent pushbacks and collective expulsions of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants along the Croatian border following an incident last week involving 50 “visibly exhausted”…

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UN mission says 50 men pushed back into Bosnia from Croatia

SARAJEVO -     U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Bosnia on Thursday to pursue limited changes to its constitution needed to reform the electoral system and protect the rights of all its citizens.

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U.S. Secretary of State Blinken calls for changes to Bosnia's constitution

A former Bosnian soldier who fled custody while awaiting trial for murder in the 1994 killing of a fellow military officer has been arrested and jailed in Iowa after living...

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US arrests Bosnian fugitive wanted for 1994 military killing

Sarajevo, March 30, 2021 (AFP) - At 35, Edin Dzeko is both the star and old man of a Bosnia team he will lead against France in 2022 World Cup qualifying on Wednesday, but he owes his long career to the time his mother would not let him play football.One day, during the bloody siege of Sarajevo, the young Dzeko asked his mother if he could go outside to play football. She said no.

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Dzeko in autumn of career that began among snipers in Sarajevo

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