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Celebrated photojournalist is allegedly stabbed to death by his teen son along a popular Los Angeles hiking trail
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Celebrated photojournalist is allegedly stabbed to death by his teen son along a popular Los Angeles hiking trail

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Deputies with the Los Angeles County …

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Sarajevo’s agony echoes as Ukraine braces for a dark winter
2 years ago

Sarajevo’s agony echoes as Ukraine braces for a dark winter

Associated Press  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Vildana Mutevelić huddled in her apartment with her two young children and elderly cousins. “Before that we just froze.” The Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline,” drawing from a variety of sources, have independently documented more than 40 attacks by Russia on Ukraine’s electrical power, heat, water and telecommunications facilities since February. In a tweet, Ukrainian …

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Sarajevo’s agony echoes as Ukraine braces for a dark winter
2 years ago

Sarajevo’s agony echoes as Ukraine braces for a dark winter

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The aggressor state is ‘weaponizing winter,’ depriving Ukrainians of …

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Balkans split over Madeleine Albright’s wartime legacy
2 years, 9 months ago

Balkans split over Madeleine Albright’s wartime legacy

Associated Press  

BELGRADE, Serbia — A monument in Kosovo, a snake named after her in Serbia. She identified herself so strongly with the push for a Western intervention in Kosovo that her critics dubbed the 1998-1999 conflict there “Madeleine’s War.” She championed the 78-day bombardment of Serb-led Yugoslavia by NATO — which started exactly 23 years ago Thursday — that halted a …

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Balkans split over Madeleine Albright's wartime legacy
2 years, 9 months ago

Balkans split over Madeleine Albright's wartime legacy

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Albright also worked on bringing to justice all the …

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Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic loses genocide appeal
3 years, 7 months ago

Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic loses genocide appeal

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Ratko Mladic, the military chief known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan nation’s 1992-95 war, lost his final legal battle Tuesday when U.N. judges rejected his appeals and affirmed his life sentence. As commander of the Bosnian Serb Army, the once-swaggering Mladic led troops responsible …

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UN court upholds Ratko Mladic’s war crimes, genocide convictions
3 years, 7 months ago

UN court upholds Ratko Mladic’s war crimes, genocide convictions

Al Jazeera  

The final verdict means the Bosnian Serb military leader, 78, will see out his life sentence over his role in the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre. UN appeals judges have upheld the convictions of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic for genocide and other offences during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, and confirmed his life sentence. Mladic joins his …

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Bosnian Serbs honour Nobel Laureate Peter Handke amidst controversy over author's views on war crimes
3 years, 8 months ago

Bosnian Serbs honour Nobel Laureate Peter Handke amidst controversy over author's views on war crimes

Firstpost  

While Handke is adored by Serbs for his support of their nationalist policies, he is considered persona non grata in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, which is dominated by mostly Muslim Bosniaks. Banja Luka: Bosnian Serbs on 7 May honored the controversial 2019 Nobel Literature Prize winner Peter Handke, who is known for his apologist views over Serb war crimes …

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Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk receive Nobel Literature Prizes amid protest
5 years, 1 month ago

Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk receive Nobel Literature Prizes amid protest

The Hindu  

Author Peter Handke received his Nobel Literature Prize on Tuesday amid criticism of him in Sweden and abroad as an apologist for Serb war crimes in the 1990s. Leaders denounce move “To give the Nobel Literature Prize to a racist personality can have no other meaning than to reward human rights violations,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Twitter. …

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Bosnian war survivors protest Peter Handke’s Nobel prize win
5 years, 2 months ago

Bosnian war survivors protest Peter Handke’s Nobel prize win

Associated Press  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian war survivors, including mothers who lost husbands and sons in the Srebrenica massacre, protested Tuesday in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel Committee to reverse its decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke. Protesters gathered outside the Swedish embassy in downtown Sarajevo carrying banners with slogans comparing Handke with Serbian strongman …

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