Azem Kurtic

Prosecution confirms a police officer in Sarajevo has been arrested for suspected lewd acts with a minor – a topic of growing interest since news broke that a TV actor had been sentenced for the same crime – but had not gone to jail.

The US-sanctioned president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, threw a cocktail party in honour of Trump’s victory in the American presidential elections, saying his win "symbolises a return to values we hold dear".

Police have arrested 11 people suspected of large-scale tobacco smuggling and money laundering, who reportedly transferred a lorry load's worth of cigarettes from Montenegro to Bosnia each week for years.

Sasa Magazinovic said he was likely barred from Azerbaijan for supporting a Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly resolution in January that criticised the country for alleged rights breaches.

The presence of high-level delegations from the Balkans at COP29, the UN's latest climate summit in Baku, cannot disguise their foot-dragging in the fight for a greener future.

As Balkan politicians pledge to commit to green transition at the United Nations COP29 climate summit in Baku, their main cities are starting to choke from the annual winter surge in air pollution.

The COP29 climate change summit in Baku has proven a lucrative side hustle for the host – gas-producing, oil-rich Azerbaijan – with Balkan visitors lining up to strike deals.

A new system of checking how many days a person has spent inside Europe's Schengen zone could spell trouble for Bosnia's vital trucking sector, and have a dangerous knock-on effect for the Bosnian economy.

German-based EuroNatur Foundation report highlights escalating threats to ecosystems im Western Balkans, saying development pressures, policy gaps and poor enforcement of rules jeopardise their future.

In a move to safeguard Bosnia's cultural heritage, High Representative Christian Schmidt issued an order to support the operations of key national institutions, including the National Library – whose plight in 1992 caught world attention.