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Bosnians are planning demonstrations across the country on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the start of protests of February 7 2014 - and remind local leaders of how little they have done to improve matters over the past year.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his British counterpart, Phillip Hammond, have arrived in Bosnia on a mission to kick-start the stalled EU reform plan for Bosnia.

The 37,203 registered Croatian voters living outside the country - often referred to as Diaspora - played a key role in deciding the winner of the Croatian presidential elections.

A new report into the death in 2004 of former Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, conducted by a team of regional experts and released in Sarajevo on Tuesday, once again declared that the fatal plane crash was not the result of an assassination but an accident.

In a rare display of professional unity in the ethnically divided country, journalists across Bosnia and Herzegovina have joined forces to stand up for media freedoms.

"Media that dare to do the essence of our job - asking questions - find themselves under different pressures," Milkica Milojevic, president of the BH Journalists association told Balkan Insight.

Around 200 workers from bankrupt firms in the Tuzla region spent Wednesday night in a sports centre of the nearby town of Srebrenik after starting a protest walk on December 24 across the border towards Croatia, aiming to "leave the country" because of their hopeless situation.

The new probe into the former president's death has dismissed reports that the aircraft carrying Trajkovski and his staff might have exploded in mid-air, Bosnian television, FTV, reported.

The probe reportedly also dismissed suspicions that French SFOR soldiers who were running the control tower in the southwestern Bosnian town of Mostar were in part to blame for the crash.

BELGRADE - Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office announced on Wednesday that an investigation has been launched into a mass grave in the village of Radice near Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), suspected to hold the remains of Serb victims of war crimes committed in 1993 and 1994.

"Macedonian president was dead before plane crashed"

SKOPJE -- A draft report about the 2004 plane crash in which Macedonian President Boris Trajkoviski lost his life states the victims were dead before the aircraft fell.

The draft was handed to the Macedonian authorities by Omer Kulic, who chairs an international commission that investigated the crash.

Bosnia's State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, has arrested seven persons in an action codenamed "Gibraltar" after conducting raids in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Mostar, Posusje and Grude, related to financial crime and corruption.

Among the suspects were some well known names from marketing agencies, the world of television and telecommunications companies.