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Earthquake kills one, wounds several in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The quake hit the Ljubinje municipality in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, 182 kilometers (113 miles) southeast of the capital city of Sarajevo.

A secession in Bosnia is underway and NATO must be worried

The situation in Bosnia is no longer a political crisis, but a rapidly deteriorating security crisis.

Ethnic parties win Bosnian Mostar town's first local vote in 12 years

The coalition of multi-ethnic moderate parties BH Bloc won enough votes to act as a kingmaker in the future 35-member city council, according to unofficial preliminary results from the parties and election authorities.

Bosnia's Mostar city holds first local election in over a decade

Sunday's election came after the country’s main Bosniak and Croat parties reached an agreement in June this year to hold the first local elections in the ethnically divided city since 2008.

The Bosnian-born Ottoman commander who stopped Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte's ambition to establish an empire in the East was crushed in 1799 at the Siege of Acre by Ahmed Jazzar Pasha.

Is Bosnia's Mostar city forgotten?

Mostar, a city in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, has not voted in local elections for more than a decade. We speak to residents who are demanding more public services, despite not having a city council for many years.

Bosnia's Mostar town finds peak in centuries-old bridge diving

In the ancient Mostar town, jumping or diving from the 24-metre-high bridge built by Ottomans across Neretva river is a test of courage. Organisers say the competition was 452nd.