Serbian director Emir Kusturica attends the 14th Beijing International Film Festival as a jury member last month. Interestingly, the renowned Serbian director Emir Kusturica, one of the few cinematic masters to have won awards at all of Europe's three top events — the Venice Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival — made his acting …
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 …
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 …
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — With the arrival of cold and foggy winter weather amid the pandemic, eastern Europe is facing an extra respiratory health hazard — air pollution. “We have this pressure from two sides now, one and another from polluted air,” said Igor Spaic, a resident of Bosnia’s capital Sarajevo, which is one of the most polluted cities in Europe. …