Year of birth missing

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR, on July 15 backed Azra Zornic in her suit against the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a case concerning people's rights to run for top posts in the country.

The new ruling puts Bosnia under renewed pressure to change the way it is governed since it echoes the 2009 ruling by the same court in the case of Sejdic and Finci.

CAPE TOWN - Serbian students won one gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Cape Town, adding to the string of success enjoyed by the Serbian teams in this competition over the years.

Stavarache, a member of the opposition National Liberal Party, was remanded in custody for 30 days on Tuesday for allegedly receiving bribes of over 2.3 million lei (some 520,000 euro) from businessmen.

Egypt's prosecutor general on June 16 ordered the release of Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy, who has been on hunger strike for nearly five months, the official MENA news agency reported.

Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on June 15 filed a case with local police accusing 17 people of breaching regulations over the construction of a building that collapsed last year, killing over 1,130 mostly garment workers.

Adonis Georgiadis will be New Democracy's new parliamentary spokesman, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said after a meeting between the two men in Athens Thursday.

“He is one of the party's worthiest, most skilled and most combative members,” Samaras said of the former health minister praising his willingness to push with necessary reforms.

By Alexis Papachelas

We have been caught up in a vicious circle and I don’t know if or how we can get out of it. While we constantly complain about the quality of those governing and representing Greece, we go on to elect the worst the country has to offer to the European Parliament.

The rift between Turkey’s government and the movement of Fethullah Gülen is a “family matter,” U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis J. Ricciardone has said, responding to questions as to whether Washington was considering deporting the U.S.-based Islamic scholar after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s appeal.

Malcolm Glazer, the controversial American owner of English Premier League giants Manchester United, died Wednesday. He was 85.
      
Glazer -- the son of a Lithuanian immigrant who went on to build an diverse business empire -- gained a global profile through his ownership of United, one of the world's biggest and best supported football clubs.
      

SARAJEVO - Today marks 24 years since the death of Alija Sirotanovic, the most famous Yugoslav miner and Hero of Socialist Labor, who was pictured on the 20,000 Yugoslav dinar banknote.