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Hungary's PM denounced in Bosnia for anti-Muslim rhetoric
Read full article: Hungary's PM denounced in Bosnia for anti-Muslim rhetoricBosnian officials and religious leaders have denounced suggestions voiced by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his spokesman that the integration of Bosnia into the European Union will be challenging because of its large Muslim population.
Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX dispute
Read full article: Bosnia receives jabs from Serbia amid COVAX disputeIn this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, a worker holds a box of the Astra-Zeneca vaccines at Sarajevo Airport, Bosnia, Tuesday, March 2. 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)SARAJEVO โ SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Bosnia on Tuesday received 10,000 vaccines from neighboring Serbia amid a dispute with the international COVAX mechanism over a delay in planned shipments. Serbiaโs populist president, Aleksandar Vucic, flew to Bosnian capital Sarajevo to deliver the AstraZeneca vaccines to the authorities there.
World leaders criticize haphazard response to pandemic
Read full article: World leaders criticize haphazard response to pandemicMember state flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. This year's annual gathering of world leaders at U.N. headquarters will be almost entirely "virtual." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)TANZANIA โ World leaders gathering remotely Wednesday criticized a haphazard global response to a microscopic virus that has unleashed economic havoc and taken nearly 1 million lives in its march across the globe. In the words of Kazakhstanโs president, it was โa critical collapse of global cooperation.โโOur world has been turned upside down,โ said Ghana's president, Nana Akufo-Addo. Switzerland's President Simonetta Sommaruga, one of the few women leaders to speak, said the pandemic โhas caused untold suffering in the world," with the most vulnerable hit hardest.
The Latest: Venezuela's Guaidรณ urges nations to decry Maduro
Read full article: The Latest: Venezuela's Guaidรณ urges nations to decry MaduroMember state flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)TANZANIA โ The Latest from the U.N. General Assembly (all times EDT):8:10 p.m. But U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidรณ still put out his own online message during this yearโs gathering of world leaders. Guaidรณ is recognized by nearly 60 nations as Venezuelaโs president and has been in a nearly two-year standoff with Maduro. This week at the U.N. gathering of world leaders, African nations again have made it clear itโs time that changed.
Leaders, survivors mark 25 years since Srebrenica massacre
Read full article: Leaders, survivors mark 25 years since Srebrenica massacre(AP Photo/Kemal Softic)SREBRENICA โ SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Virtually joined by world leaders, the survivors of Bosnia's 1995 Srebrenica massacre on Saturday remembered the victims of Europe's only acknowledged genocide since World War II and warned of the perpetrators' persistent refusal to fully acknowledge their responsibility. โThe Srebrenica genocide is being denied (by Serb leaders) just as systematically and meticulously as it was executed in 1995 โฆ we owe it not just to Srebrenica, but to humanity, to oppose that,โ he added. Some international speakers also addressed the continued refusal by Serb leaders in Bosnia and neighboring Serbia to acknowledge the extent of the Srebrenica slaughter and the ongoing suffering of its survivors. โThere are those who would prefer to forget or deny the enormity of what took place (in Srebrenica in 1995). In all, the tribunal and courts in the Balkans have sentenced close to 50 Bosnian Serb wartime officials to more than 700 years in prison for the Srebrenica killings.