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- Bosnia and Croatia crack down on human smuggling into EU
ZAGREB (Reuters) - Police in Bosnia and Croatia have arrested 38 people accused of smuggling illegal migrants into the European Union in a coordinated crackdown on human trafficking in the region. The so-called "Balkan smuggling route" is used to ferry contraband drugs and people from Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Police in Croatia, which joins the European Union on July 1, arrested 25 people and were looking for eight more suspects, while 13 were arrested in Bosnia, said Dean Savic, head of the Croatian police unit for corruption and organized crime. ...
- Bosnian experts present U.S.-backed plan for reform
 By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian legal experts presented on Wednesday a U.S.-backed plan to reform one of the Balkan state's two autonomous regions, a month after it was warned that its bid to join the European Union would be frozen without constitutional changes. Bosnia's Serbs, Muslims and Croats differ over how to change a governing structure enshrined in their 1995 peace treaty dividing it into a Serb Republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation with a weak central government in Sarajevo. ...
- Kosovo police arrest suspected crime boss Kelmendi
By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Police in Kosovo have arrested Naser Kelmendi, blacklisted by the United States on suspicion of trafficking drugs to Europe, on a warrant from Bosnia, officials said on Monday. Bosnia is seeking Kelmendi's extradition because of his suspected involvement in organized crime and his role in the 2007 murder of Ramiz Delalic, a Bosnian Muslim warlord who switched to organized crime after the wars in the Balkans. ...
- Leader apologizes for Srebrenica
Serbia's president apologized Thursday for the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, but declined to characterize the killings as an act of genocide.
- Bosnia court detains president
A Bosnian court orders the president of the autonomous Bosniak-Croat Federation to be detained for a month on corruption charges.
- Court orders detention of Bosnia federation head in graft probe
 SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A Bosnian court on Sunday ordered that the president of the country's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation and four other officials be detained for a month after prosecutors said they took bribes to arrange pardons for convicts. Federation President Zivko Budimir was arrested on Friday along with 19 others in the most high-profile anti-corruption drive in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago. ...
- President arrested in Bosnia corruption crackdown
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (AP) — A spokesman for the prosecution says Bosnian police have arrested one of the country's presidents along with 18 other people as part of a corruption investigation.
- Bosnian regional president arrested in graft probe
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The president of Bosnia's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation and 19 another regional officials were arrested on Friday in an anti-corruption probe that also targeted the offices of the regional government, a spokesman for the state prosecutor said. The raid on Zivko Budimir's Sarajevo office and the regional government in the southern town of Mostar marked the most high-profile anti-graft operation in Bosnia since independence more than two decades ago. ...
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