Sarajevo

The Cepalo family was not the only one cutting short their sleep. In fact, Fatima Cizmic recalls the whole of Prusac doing the same. Yet this was no religious ritual or tradition. The reason was far simpler: Muslim Bosniaks like the Cepalo family were waking up to watch Muhammad Ali fight, but the time differences meant he almost always entered the boxing ring late at night.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received German ambassadors to the region and officials of the Berlin government, including special Western Balkans envoy Manuel Sarrazin, in Belgrade on Friday.

Restitution in Bosnia is going nowhere, while Banja Luka and Sarajevo battle over who holds ownership over public property.

Ibrahim Ceco was sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison for committing a war crime against the civilian population in Sarajevo in September 1992.

Slovenian director Miran Zupanic's latest documentary tells a story of rich foreigners who paid to shoot at people in Sarajevo during the wartime siege - but Bosnian Serb war veterans insist the film is based on a lie.

Twenty-three-year-old artist Aida Zahirovic is proud that her first short film was premiered at the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival, but like many young creative people in the Balkans, she struggles to find resources.

UN-backed project ensures pupils in Bosnia's Sarajevo Canton will have access to free sanitary pads and free education on menstrual health in the 2022/23 school year.

The state prosecution has detained members of the Sarajevo Canton police force and the Directorate for Coordination of Police Bodies of Bosnia and Herzegovina for questioning on Friday after it launched a new investigation into 22-year-old Dzenan Memic's death.

Until August 1992, the City Hall served as the national library, housing more than two million books, magazines and manuscripts of immeasurable cultural and historical value.

Sarajevo was under heavy shelling on August 25, 1992 and "half of the city was burning", Omer Setic, one of the first firefighters to arrive at the blaze, told BIRN.

That conference at which Schmidt became enraged caused a lot of reactions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and the region, and Schmidt says today that everyone sometimes gets into such a situation.