Bosnia

Plane Crashes In Bosnia

AP | Associated Press | Posted 05.20.2012

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BANJA LUKA , Bosnia-Herzegovina -- A small sports plane burst into flames just after takeoff in northwest Bosnia on Sunday, killing the five people on...

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LOOK: Bosnia In The 90s

Posted 05.17.2012

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On Thursday, a judge at The Hague indefinitely delayed the proceedings in the trial of former Bosnian-Serb general Ratko Mladic, due to 'errors' made ...

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Ratko Mladic Stands Trial

AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 05.17.2012

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — He's no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo "in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Yet as h...

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PHOTOS: Unbelievable Weather Surprise

AP | Posted 05.14.2012

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Sunbathing one day, snowstorm the next: Bosnians are getting whiplash from the latest crazy weather to hit the Balkans...

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Thief Makes Frightening Discovery

AP | Posted 05.11.2012

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Sometimes thieves just get more than they bargained for. Police in Sarajevo say a man found what he thought was an ab...

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Bosnia: Shame on Us All

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Hakija Turaljic, Ethnic Cleansing, Serbia, Darfur, Slobodan Milosevic, Jacques Poos, European Union, Holocaust, Radovan Karadzic, Serb Elections, Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, Barack Obama, War Crimes, Bosnia, Belgrade, Douglas Hurd, Armenia, Biljana Plavsic, Dayton Peace Accord, Genocide, Russia, Sudan, Peacekeeping, Republika Srpska, Rwanda, Denazification, World News

On the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Bosnian war we should feel anger and shame because 'the international order' is still ignoring those warning signs when they occur. We should also acknowledge the human consequences of the West's failure in Bosnia.

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God Has Not Forgotten Sarajevo

Tihomir Kukolja | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Christians, Bosnia, Muslims, Balkans, Sarajevo, Genocide, Christianity, Christian Social Justice, Religion News

I wonder if Jesus walks the streets of an imprisoned and wounded Sarajevo? I cannot help but love those dedicated volunteers of Adventist Development and Relief Agency. No doubt they are fulfilling Jesus' commission.

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Sarajevo Marks 20th Anniversary Of The Bosnian War

AP | AIDA CERKEZ | Posted 04.06.2012

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnians walked silently and sobbed on Sarajevo's main street, leaving flowers and gifts on 11,541 red chairs arr...

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Satellite Photos Of Syria Fighting Reach The Web

iWatch News | Posted 04.05.2012

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In 1995, U.S. spy satellites photographed telling moments in the massacre over four days of an estimated 7,800 Bosnians by Bosnian Serb forces near th...

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Syrian abuses captured in satellite photos

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 04.05.2012

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By R. Jeffrey Smith, iWatch NewsIn 1995, U.S. spy satellites photographed telling moments in the massacre over four days of an estimated 7,800 Bosn...

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I Was Born in the Land of Blood and Honey

Diana Jenkins | Posted 03.29.2012

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For me the pain is still very real. I can't just watch this film, step out of the movie theater, and resume a normal life. That's not a luxury I have. War changes people and leaves a mark on the soul. Angelina's movie tries to capture that change.

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Talking About Education in the Information Age

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.13.2012

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I have bought into the idea that our schools are built for an industrial age long past. I do not want my daughter sitting at a desk all day.

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Why Is Angelina Jolie a Persona Non Grata in Serbia

Sasa Milosevic | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Angelina Jolie, Balkan Wars, Admira Ismic, In the Land of Honey and Blood, Bosnia, Angelina Jolie Serbia, Angelina Jolie Oscars, World News

Angelina's one-sided vision of the Bosnian tragedy puts salt on never fully healed wounds in relations between Serbian Christians and Bosnian Muslims.

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Angelina Jolie, Bosnia in Her Heart

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 04.22.2012

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Angelina Jolie goes behind the camera -- and what happens? She shoots a film d'auteur, with unknown Bosnian actors and the film is set in this blind spot of 20th century history, in this moment of utter sorrow, indignity and shame for the nations that let it happen: the Bosnian war.

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The DynCorp "See No Evil" Monkey

David Isenberg | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Sex Trafficking, Private Military Security Contractors, Bosnia, Dyncorp, The Whistleblower, Private Contractors, Business News

The issue is not DynCorp; trafficking in and exploitation of people, whether for labor or sexual services, is the problem.

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Former Enemies Reach Into Their Pockets To Help

AP | By AIDA CERKEZ | Posted 01.31.2012

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By AIDA CERKEZ, Associated Press KOCINOVAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- They were bitter enemies on opposite sides of the front line during the horrors o...

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Casablanca at 70: A Film That Is More Relevant Than Ever

Rebecca Tinsley | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Fascism, Bosnia, Casablanca, Nazis, Arab Spring, The English Patient, Darfur, World War Two, 9/11, Sudan, Nigeria, Gay Marriage, Rwanda, Syria, Impact News

Where are today's Casablanca-style heroes? They are in the streets of North Africa (and Syria), facing down well-armed, brutal, corrupt regimes, most of which were propped up by the West.

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Could Mothers Do More?

Katherine Tasheff | Posted 03.25.2012

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I want my children to become anything and everything they want to be. But I support and encourage them from the seemingly secure vantage point of life in the U.S. How would my parenting change if their lives were endangered every time they left the house?

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Bosnian Cultural Heritage Under Peacetime Threat

Stephen Schwartz | Posted 01.19.2012

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The erasure of Bosnian collective memory attempted by fire almost 20 years ago may be accomplished finally by political intrigue and neglect.

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Bosnia Shutting Down 7 Top Cultural Institutions

AP | SABINA NIKSIC | Posted 03.06.2012

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia's oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions have begun closing their doors one after another, than...

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Angelina Jolie's Ambitious In The Land Of Blood And Honey Is The Very Definition Of A Noble Failure

Scott Mendelson | Posted 02.19.2012

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Despite the film's fine intentions and adult treatment of adult subject matter, In the Land of Blood and Honey doesn't quite work as a compelling piece of drama.

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Balkans Hit By Devastating Drought

AP | MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC and AMER COHADZIC | Posted 02.01.2012

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BEZDAN, Serbia — The waters of the mighty Danube are so low that dozens of cargo ships are stuck, stranded in ghostly fog or wedged into sand ba...

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Refugee Reeducation: Teens Find New Home At The Global Village School

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Video, Education, Civil War, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Private Schools, War, Decatur, Refugees, Women's Education, Global Village School, Impact News

Bertha Nibigira, a Burundi student, says she had never read a book before being enrolling at Decatur, Georgia's Global Village School . Nibigira is...

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Women, War & Peace: Documentary Filmmaking as Activism

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Alfre Woodward, Wnet, Arts and Activism, Leymah Gbowee, Women's Equality, Pbs, Impact, Colombia, Matt Damon, Liberia, Tilda Swinton, Afro-Colombians, Women War & Peace, Bosnia, Gini Reticker, Fourth World Congress on Women, Impact News, Itvs, Pamela Hogan, 40x50, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Thirteen, Geena Davis, Fork Films, Ladies First, Wide Angle, Abigail E. Disney, Rwanda, Impact News

Melding journalistic reportage and visceral narrative, Women, War & Peace stands as an example of the power of film to ensure that under-recognized subjects become part of the permanent record.

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Update: Palestine at the UN: What Will and What Will Not Happen

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 01.10.2012

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Somehow the Palestinian bid at the United Nations for a game changer has fallen flat so far. But amid the changes in the Arab world, it has focused attention on the issue again and again.

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