State Government

Bosnia took a small step toward unlocking the new EU initiative for the troubled country, after all MPs in the National Assembly of Republika Srpska voted for the declaration pledging support for Bosnia's continued EU accession process.

Deputies in the Federation parliament on Monday confirmed the appointments of the new entity officials as the country took another step towards forming governments after last October's elections.

The formation of the government in the Federation entity will also enable the formation of the state government, the Council of Ministers.

A rally against racism and xenophobia on Jan. 10 drew tens of thousands of people in the eastern German city of Dresden, which  has become the centre of anti-immigration protests organised by a new grassroots movement called PEGIDA.
   
"We won't permit that hate will divide us", Dresden's mayor Helma Orosz said in front of the 18th-century Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady).

More than 2,000 people have fled their homes in the restive Indian state of Assam after separatist rebels killed dozens of villagers, some of them children, an official said Dec. 25.
      

A second health worker at the Texas hospital where the first case of Ebola contamination on US soil occurred has tested positive for the disease, the state government said

Emergency workers battled Tuesday to reach hundreds of thousands of people marooned by floods in India and Pakistan that have claimed more than 400 lives, as anger grew over the speed of the rescue effort.
      

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet on Wednesday with several European officials and the Ambassador of Israel to Serbia.

Prime Minister Vucic will confer with Israeli Ambassador Yossef Levy, and then hold a meeting with Michael Strugl, Minister of Economy, Labour, Tourism, Sports and European Affairs of the State Government of Upper Austria.