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Bosnian police seize 2 million child porn photos
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police say they have seized some 2 million child pornography pictures and 7,000 video clips in the arrest of an alleged member of an international online child pornography ring. Police said on Monday...Tags: Pornography, Social Issues
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Bosnia and Croatia crack down on human smuggling into EU
ReutersZAGREB, May 15 (Reuters) - Police in Bosnia and Croatia have arrested 38 people accused of smuggling illegal migrants into the European Union in a coordinated crackdown on human trafficking in the region. The so-called "Balkan smuggling route" is used to...Tags: Organized Crime, International Organizations, Politics, Croatia, European Union
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Bosnian experts present U.S.-backed plan for reform
ReutersSARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian legal experts presented on Wednesday a U.S.-backed plan to reform one of the Balkan state's two autonomous regions, a month after it was warned that its bid to join the European Union would be frozen without constitutional...Tags: International Organizations, Parliament, Religion and Belief, Elections, Politics
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Maryland National Guard celebrates foreign partnerships
For Capt. Martin Noorsalu, deploying to Afghanistan with the Maryland National Guard last year was an unusual opportunity. Noorsalu is one of only a dozen helicopter pilots in the Estonian Air Force. The sole air defense service of the former Soviet...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Estonia, Annapolis, Afghanistan, Martin O'Malley
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Gays are second-class in South Dakota
Rhode Island has just become the 10th state to grant same-sex couples marriage. South Dakota is one of the embarrassments to the U.S. Constitution to which it claims to be a signatory. In 1996, South Dakota passed a bill whose language would become...Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues
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EU-bound Croatia craves investors but drags feet on reforms
Reuters* Red tape suffocates investment * Trails peers in attracting foreign investment * Croatia four years in recession * Some local firms move production to non-EU neighbours By Igor Ilic and Sasa Kavic DUBROVNIK, Croatia, May 10 (Reuters) - The barren...Tags: International Organizations, Zagreb (Croatia), European Union, Finance, Balkan Peninsula
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Survey: Many Muslims want sharia, but differ on what that means
In Afghanistan, Iraq and many other countries across the globe, most Muslims support making sharia, or Islamic law, the official law of the land, according to a sweeping survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. But sharia means different...
Tags: Southeast Asia, Pakistan, Religion and Belief, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
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Court orders detention of Bosnia federation head in graft probe
ReutersSARAJEVO, April 28 (Reuters) - A Bosnian court on Sunday ordered that the president of the country's autonomous Muslim-Croat federation and four other officials be detained for a month after prosecutors said they took bribes to arrange pardons for...Tags: Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Prosecution, Political Corruption
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Serb president seeks pardon 'on my knees' for Srebrenica
Reuters* Most conciliatory statement yet by Serbia's Nikolic * Surprise comments follow Bosnian Muslim leader's visit * Serbia in line to start EU accession talks By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO, April 25 (Reuters) - Serbia's nationalist president has...Tags: United Nations, Crime, Law and Justice, Serbia, Genocide, Hate Crimes
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Soccer-Fans and police hurt in mass fight in Bosnia
ReutersSARAJEVO, April 25 (Reuters) - Sixteen supporters and seven police officers were injured, two of them seriously, in a mass fight on Wednesday when fans of rival soccer clubs clashed in a central Bosnian village while heading to first division matches....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Balkan Peninsula
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'Face the truth': Bosnian leader upbraids Serbian president
Reuters* Bosnia angered by Serbian leader's remarks on Srebrenica * Izetbegovic: Face the truth on Srebrenica, Sarajevo * Strained ties have set back reconciliation, cooperation By Matt Robinson BELGRADE, April 23 (Reuters) - Bosnian Muslim leader Bakir...Tags: International Organizations, United Nations, Religion and Belief, Serbia, Genocide
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Major Hainey: A one of a kind man in a first of its kind post
Special to this newspaperMany people in the Imperial Valley have become accustomed to the presence of the British military units that rotate through for their desert training operations. School children have had a chance to meet the tall Brits with strange accents who arrive in...Tags: Military Aircraft, Afghanistan, Military Equipment, NATO, United Kingdom
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