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Sarajevo Here are the top stories in Bosnia and Herzegovina's main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.

Grand View University instructor Heather Derr-Smith was invited by the University of Sarajevo to read from her work and lead poetry workshops in four cities in Bosnia - Travnik, Zenica, Tuzla, and Sarajevo - earlier this month.

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved US$35 million in financing for the Sarajevo Waste Water Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina today.

Wartime photo journalists exhibit their work in Sarajevo. Also in cultural news: Pristina hosts the International Film Festival on Human Rights, and a former Bulgarian high jumper receives the National European Athletics Award.

Serbia applied for European Union membership on Tuesday in a drive to turn its back on the war, poverty and isolation of the 1990s, but its bid was likely to make little progress while Ratko Mladic remained at large.

The Pacific island state of Nauru has recognised South Ossetia and Abkhazia, both of which declared independence from Georgia last year.

Serbian and US representatives talk co-operation. Also in diplomatic news: Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic visits the Vatican and Croatia's Mesic was in Russia.

News Sarajevo Bosnia road map The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD, has provided a loan worth 21 million euros for the completion of a motorway in northwestern Bosnia linking the country with the pan-European transport network.

Sarajevo Zrinka Cvitesic and lead actor Leon Lucev in one of the scenes from Zbanica s new film "The film crew and I are very happy, Berlin is the best possible place where to present our film," said Zbanic, whose debut "Grbavica" won the Golden Bear in 2006.

The train resumed operations Sunday, almost two decades after war stopped it in its tracks.

Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger stressed on Monday that the reunification of Europe can only succeed when countries in the region also seek neighborly relationship.

Sarajevo-Belgrade Train Back on Track Sarajevo A train dispatcher signals to the driver to start the Sarajevo-Belgrade train Standing on platform 1 of the Sarajevo railway station on Sunday, Pantelija Miholjcic could not hide his emotions as a grimy train took off for Belgrade for the first time since Bosnia's brutal wars broke direct rail ...

Relatives say goodbye as a train linking Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina with Belgrade in Serbia departs for the first time in 18 years The last time Husein Kratina boarded a train in Belgrade bound for his native Bosnia-Herzegovina was more than 18 years ago.

Until lately, Kosovo had a decade of padding to quarantine itself from the rawness, violence and fear that clasped to the coattails of liberation in 1999, infecting the "provisional government" months that followed, carrying their bacillus of internecine murder of alleged collaborators and of LDK members -- a good two years into the new decade .

Railway tracks are seen through a window of a train at the main railway station in Belgrade Dec.

Date : Sun, 6 Dec 2009 22:22:45 PST A Stamboul Train full of writers Twenty European writers recently hopped on a train to Istanbul.

In 1991, I fought in a war in a foreign land. At the time we all knew the only reason we were there was oil.

Many foreign correspondents will have seen it before - President Obama's next move in Afghanistan bares some uncomfortable parallels with America's 1960s invovlement in Vietnam.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have agreed on all important points of an agreement that will ensure the enforcement of final court verdicts for persons holding dual citizenship, the Bosnian Justice Ministry said on Wednesday.

Serbian state security agents have raided three homes of suspected helpers of fugitive top war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, seeking leads to the former Bosnian Serb military commander, an official said today.