Ronaldo faces club-v-country row
CNN - Mon Nov 9, 9:03 am ETCristiano Ronaldo has been named in Portugal's squad for their World Cup play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina despite objections from La Liga side Real Madrid.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been named in Portugal's squad for their World Cup play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina despite objections from La Liga side Real Madrid.
Bosnia coach Miroslav Blazevic is hoping uncapped midfielder Haris Medunjanin will be granted approval by FIFA in time to make his debut in the two-legged World Cup play-off against Portugal later this month.
Before I visited Bosnia, I heard that Sarajevo was once revered for its beauty. Visitors were awed, during the 1984 Winter Olympics, by Sarajevo's sumptuous valleys and alpine mountains.
A row has broken out between Real Madrid and the Portuguese Football Federation over whether injured forward Cristiano Ronaldo should be called up for the two-legged World Cup playoff against Bosnia.
The Portugal gaffer is high on confidence ahead of his side's World Cup play-off against Bosnia.
War crime tribunal orders court appointed lawyer for... War crime - Radovan Karadzic - Radovan KaradžiÄ - Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Government
Karadzic attends UN tribunal for 1st time since start of war crimes trial.
EDINBURG — The former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, an Edinburg native, died last week. Gustavo De La Viña died of natural causes Oct. 26 at the age of 70 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he worked as a private adviser for the government.
Radovan Karadzic has appeared in the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal's courtroom for the first time since his trial began last week to argue for more time to prepare his defense. Prosecutors allege Karadzic was the driving force behind atrocities beginning with the ethnic cleansing of towns and villages to create an ethnically pure Serb state in 1992 and culminating in Europe's worst massacre since ...
Nine years ago, in October 2000, I came to Connecticut from Bosnia. It was a dream coming true for me. I was only 15. I was "shipped" out of my country as a product - a product of war.
Radovan Karadzic broke a boycott on his Yugoslav war crimes trial today to ask for 10 more months for his defense against genocide charges in Bosnia.
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Commission Friday proposed lending Ukraine up to EUR500 million and Bosnia-Herzegovina up to EUR100 million to help the countries implement restructuring agreements reached with the International Monetary Fund.
Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro agreed on Monday to nominate medieval tombstones scattered across the region and known as 'Stecci' as their shared cultural heritage to the UN World Heritage List.
The war crimes trial of former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic began last week at The Hague, but many Bosnians in the U.S. say the proceedings will not provide them with the justice they seek. Bosnia is still split in two, and many people are still seeking answers about loved ones who went missing during three years of ethnic cleansing in the mid-1990s.
The prime minister of Bosnia's Serb half said on Friday he would pull out of talks on constitutional reform led by the United States and European Union set to speed up Bosnia's path to EU and NATO membership.
The European Commission on Friday suggested lending euro500 billion to Ukraine and euro100 billion Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of International Monetary Fund bailouts to help them cope with the economic crisis.