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Jasmin Bambur of the United States reacts after competing in the men's giant slalom, sitting event at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, Thursday, March 10, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Ukraine stirs flashbacks for US Paralympian Jasmin Bambur

By Pat Graham Mar. 10, 2022 04:50 PM EST

Muslim women pray during the Eid al-Fitr celebration in Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Indonesian Muslims perform Eid al-Fitr prayer that marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
Virus, Mideast turmoil stifle Eid al-Fitr celebrations

By Niniek Karmini May. 12, 2021 09:53 PM EDT

International official: Bosnian Serbs seek to split country

By Edith M. Lederer May. 04, 2021 08:58 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The top international official in Bosnia warned Tuesday that ethnic Serb leaders are making a concerted effort to split the country, or...

A container with boxes of the Pfizer vaccine delivered, at the Sarajevo Airport, Bosnia, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The European Union has started delivering EU-funded coronavirus vaccines across the Balkans, where China and Russia have for months been supplying the much-needed shots and thus making political gains. (AP Photo/Eldar Emric)
EU delivers vaccine jabs to Balkans after China and Russia

By Dusan Stojanovic May. 04, 2021 08:35 AM EDT

A migrant walks towards Croatian border in Lipa near Bihac, Western Bosnia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. A senior U.N. migration official on Wednesday urged respect of international standards and an end to any abuse against migrants and refugees crossing borders while searching for a better future. The Chief of Staff of the International Organization for Migration, Eugenio Ambrosi, called on governments to correct any wrongdoing affecting people fleeing war and poverty. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Senior UN migration official visits migrant camps in Bosnia

By Darko Bandic Apr. 21, 2021 12:07 PM EDT

Migrants, some wearing masks for protection aganst the COVID-19 infection, speak outside the Miral camp, in Velika Kladusa, Bosnia, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Bosnia is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections among migrants and refugees living in its camps, as it struggles to cope with one of the Balkans' highest COVID-19 death and infection rates among the general population.(AP Photo/Davor Midzic)
Struggling Bosnia sees infection surge in migrants, refugees

Apr. 08, 2021 05:15 AM EDT

People march demanding the resignation of the government over the poor handling of the coronavirus pandemic in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Bosnia has reported around 7,000 fatalities from the new coronavirus which is among the highest per-capita deaths rates in Europe. The protesters blocked traffic in a key central street in Sarajevo, while hundreds more joined in with their cars, honking horns through the city. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnians protest over government's pandemic handling

Apr. 06, 2021 09:02 AM EDT

People wait in line to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Thousands of vaccine-seekers from Serbia's neighboring states have flocked to Belgrade after Serbian authorities offered free coronavirus jabs for foreigners if they show up over the weekend. Many arriving with their entire families, long lines of Bosnians, Montenegrins, North Macedonians and even Albanians formed Saturday in front of the main vaccination center in the Serbian capital. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Foreigners flock to Serbia to get coronavirus vaccine shots

Mar. 27, 2021 06:40 AM EDT

A tribute is displayed outside the store owned by one of 10 victims in the mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Boulder, Colo. A shrine filled with candles and flowers kept growing Wednesday outside Umba Love, the clothing and accessories shop that victim Tralona Bartkowiak ran with her sister on Boulder’s popular Pearl Street Mall. Bartkowiak died in the supermarket shooting attack on Monday. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
'The world got dimmer': Shooting victims' lives remembered

By Patty Nieberg, Heather Hollingsworth And Jennifer Peltz Mar. 25, 2021 03:52 PM EDT

View of graves at Sarajevo cemetery Vlakovo, Bosnia, Friday, March 19, 2021. Hospitals and the morgue in Sarajevo are overwhelmed as dozens of people died in the past days since the sharp rise in virus infections has been recorded throughout the country. (AP Photo)
Bosnian capital tightens rules as COVID-19 deaths spike

By Eldar Emric Mar. 19, 2021 11:59 AM EDT

Doctors from the Amerikan Hastanesi hospital in Istanbul and local medical staff taking care for patients in the COVID-19 ward at a the General Hospital in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. As Bosnia faces soaring coronavirus infections and rapidly-filling hospitals, two doctors from Turkey have arrived in Sarajevo to help and offer their insight in the treatment of COVID-19. Bosnia is seeing a huge rise in infections and hospitalizations after a period of relaxed measures and the winter season that saw ski resorts staying open unlike in most of Europe. (AP Photo)
As infections rise, Sarajevo's hospitals feel the pressure

By Eldar Emric Mar. 18, 2021 01:56 PM EDT

People walk in an empty street in downtown Rome, Monday, March 15, 2021. Half of Italy's regions have gone into the strictest form of lockdown in a bid to curb the latest spike in coronavirus infections that have brought COVID-19 hospital admissions beyond manageable thresholds. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)
Much of Europe tightens anti-pandemic rules as virus surges

By Frances D'emilio Mar. 15, 2021 10:44 AM EDT

A medical worker wearing protective gear, waits for patients to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Vaccinations started from a batch of 10,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines donated by neighboring Serbia. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Western Balkan countries to tighten virus rules amid surge

By Jovana Gec Mar. 10, 2021 10:51 AM EST

In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, left, and Muslim member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia Sefik Dzaferovic exchange fist bumps at Sarajevo Airport, Bosnia, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Bosnia on Tuesday received 10,000 vaccines from neighboring Serbia amid a dispute with the international COVAX mechanism over a delay in planned shipments. Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic flew to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo to deliver the Astra-Zeneca vaccines to the authorities there. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)
Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX dispute

By Eldar Emric Mar. 02, 2021 09:12 AM EST

A man carries his empty oxygen tank to be filled after arriving at the head of the line, in the Villa El Salvador neighborhood of Lima, early Thursday morning, Feb. 18, 2021. A crisis over the supply of medical oxygen for coronavirus patients has struck in Africa and Latin America, where warnings went unheeded at the start of the pandemic and doctors say the shortage has led to unnecessary deaths. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
The Latest: Kentucky urges Black citizens to get vaccinated

By The Associated Press Feb. 24, 2021 02:54 AM EST

Health workers speak with people at a vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Serbia, a country of 7 million, has so far vaccinated some 1 million people, mainly with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine and Russian Sputnik V, and to a lesser extent with the Pfizer jab. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Bosnian Serb health workers get COVID-19 jabs in Serbia

Feb. 17, 2021 12:51 PM EST

Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic speaks and gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in the capital Sarajevo, Bosnia, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Zbanic's latest and the most ambitious film "Quo Vadis, Aida?", based on true events from Bosnia's brutal 1992-95 inter-ethnic war has been many years in the making. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Bosnian director: Movie's human-rights focus resonates now

By Sabina Niksic Feb. 01, 2021 05:45 PM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2021, file photo, registered nurse Diane Miller pulls on gloves and other protective equipment as she prepares to enter patient rooms in the COVID acute care unit at UW Medical Center-Montlake in Seattle. The deadliest month of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. drew to a close with certain signs of progress: COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are trending downward, while vaccinations are picking up speed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
The Latest: Wash. state warns hospitals on VIP vaccinations

By The Associated Press Feb. 01, 2021 04:19 AM EST

In this photo taken on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 A Romanian gendarme leaves after getting a COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Across the Balkans and the rest of the nations in the southeastern corner of Europe, a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus is overshadowed by heated political debates or conspiracy theories that threaten to thwart the process. In countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, skeptics have ranged from former presidents to top athletes and doctors. Nations that once routinely went through mass inoculations under Communist leaders are deeply split over whether to take the vaccines at all. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Vaccine skepticism hurts East European anti-virus efforts

By Dusan Stojanovic And Jovana Gec Jan. 17, 2021 02:45 AM EST

Migrants wait in a line to get food and warm beverages, at the Lipa camp, outside Bihac, Bosnia, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Aid workers say migrants staying at a camp in northwestern Bosnia have complained or respiratory and skin diseases after spending days in make-shift tents and containers amid freezing weather and snow blizzards. Most of the hundreds of migrants at the Lipa facility near Bosnia's border with Croatia on Monday have been accommodated in heated military tents following days of uncertainty after a fire gutted most of the camp on Dec. 23. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)
Migrants in Bosnia camp health checked after days in cold

By Kemal Softic Jan. 12, 2021 04:17 AM EST