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The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday denied a release request from former Bosnian Serb detention camp guard Goran Jelisic, who is serving a 40-year sentence for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war.

They will give recommendations to the future administration, which will be led by Joe Biden, on what attitude should be taken towards our region, and Dnevni Avaz states that it has exclusive information on what exactly will be requested.

President Aleksandar Vucic announced this on Thursday in Belgrade, and voiced the hope that construction would begin by mid-June or at the end of the month, Beta agency reported.

From 1996 to 2018, a total of 86,755 people renounced their Bosnian citizenship - more than the population of the town of Brcko in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina - according to data that BIRN has obtained from the country's annual migration profile.

Several hundred people led by Davor Dragicevic, father of David Dragicevic - the young man killed in March in unsolved circumstances - spent Wednesday night in front of the police department in Banja Luka, the main city in Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, demanding to know who killed the 21-year-old.

The Serbian government has set aside EUR 250,000 for the newly established Solidarity Fund of the Serb Republic (RS) for treatment of children abroad.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said this is Banja Luka on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said this is Banja Luka on Wednesday.

Brnabic stressed that Serbia does this primarily because people in Serbia and in the RS - the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina - are "bound by ties of great friendship and solidarity."

Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) on Monday arrested five people for smuggling weapons, ammunition and military equipment out of the country, the prosecutor's office said.

It said the suspects are under investigation as a part of an alleged organized crime group which sells firearms in Bosnia, Serbia and Germany.

The Belgrade-based Higher Court ruled on Thursday that there was not enough evidence to convict Pop Kostic of torturing and ill-treating Bosniak civilian Muhamed Bukvic, who was imprisoned in detention camp Luka in Brcko, Bosnia in Herzegovina.

"There is no reliable evidence that the accused Boban Pop Kostic committed a war crime against civilians," presiding judge Vera Vukotic said.

Mihajlovic who won the City of Belgrade's Zlatni Beocug (Golden Ring) in 1999, has decided to return the award in protest against the city's decision this year to hand an award to Zeljko Mitrovic, the owner of the commercial TV station Pink, for his contribution to culture.