Former army

Former Army of the Serb Republic (VRS) in Bosnia-Herzegovina Gen. Zdravko Tolimir passed away in the night between Monday and Tuesday.

Tolimir died in a prison cell of the Hague Tribunal, the RS Veteran Organization told Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti.

Egyptians begin voting on Oct. 18 for a parliament expected to step firmly in line behind President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who has crushed all opposition since ousting his Islamist predecessor in 2013.

Egypt appointed its first ambassador to Israel since 2012 on June 21, signaling improving ties between states that both see the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, as a threat.

An "Islamist" protester was killed in clashes with police in Egypt's second city Alexandria on Jan. 25, officials said, as the country marked the fraught anniversary of its 2011 popular uprising.
      
Police officials said the protester shot at police during an Islamist demonstration. Police returned fire and killed him, they said.

The Skopje Appellate Court has sentenced former Macedonian Prime Minister and Defense Minister Vlado Buckovski to two years of imprisonment.

The Skopje-based Appellate Court  reduced Buckovski's sentence from three to two years of imprisonment, alleviating the penalty handed by the Skopje Basic Court I on July 1, 2013.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said July 6 he "wished" three jailed al-Jazeera journalists including an Australian had not been put on trial, conceding the case had been damaging, a newspaper reported.

Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was declared Egypt's president-elect June 3, winning 96.9 percent of the vote in an election nearly a year after he toppled president Mohamed Morsi, whose Islamist allies boycotted the polls.