The Council of Ministers sent to Parliament the draft law on the prevention of conflicts of interest in state institutions, a key reform law on which the EU is pressing for the European Council to decide on the opening of accession negotiations by March

Due to the heavy snowfall over the past few days, around 200.000 homes were left without electricity, motorways have been closed and rail services disrupted; snowfall also made made difficult the operation of domestic heating and drinking water systems

7.540 people who disappeared during the war in the 1990s still haven't been accounted for, with the country searching for them; there are around 1.300 unidentified remains, both complete and incomplete, in the morgues

Critical gaps in Bosnia and Herzegovina's HIV response have emerged with the termination of Global Fund grants, according to new WHO figures; major challenges are the limited surveillance and insufficient data collection among key population clusters

Former Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstić confessed to having 'aided and abetted the genocide' in Srebrenica; Krstić was the first defendant to be convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia