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N. Korean leader's grandson to study in Bosnia: Reports The Korea Herald/Asia News Network Thursday, Sep 29, 2011 A grandson of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has enrolled in an international college in Bosnia, local papers reported on Wednesday. The 16-year-old Kim Han-sol, son of the North Korean leader's oldest son Kim Jong-nam (right), is on a list of 72 sixth-year students of the United World Colleges' (UWC)'s local branch located in the southern town of Mostar, according to the Vecernji List. The UWC is a network of colleges throughout the world promoting international and intercultural understanding. It is attended...

I was researching about making a trip to the Balkans, and came upon this snowflake gem, about the drama at a Mostar hostel. This guy is the father of all snowflakes and where is he from, Austin, TX.

Published: 14th July 2006 11:50 CET Jackie Arklöv, currently serving a life sentence for murdering two policemen in Malexander in 1999, was charged on Friday with crimes against international law in Bosnia. "The crimes were committed during the spring, summer and autumn of 1993, mostly during the summer," said prosecutor Lise Tamm to TT. According to Tamm, Arklöv committed robbery and torture against prisoners of war as well as civilians, and demostrated 'particular brutality'. The crimes are said to have been carried out in different jails in Bosnia Herzegovinia where Arklöv was a guard. Arklöv was a mercenary soldier in...

(AFP) A Swedish official working with a European Union agency in Bosnia was hospitalized after being beaten by two unknown attackers who fled with his car, police said Tuesday. Rune Andersson was stopped by two men, one of whom was wearing a police uniform, on Sunday afternoon near the southern town of Mostar. The two beat him up and took his car, leaving him handcuffed near the road, where he was found the next morning. The head of European Commission delegation, Michael Humphreys, condemned the attack and called for a speedy investigation to bring the assailants to justice. The EU...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - (KRT) - Mehmed Kreso starting plotting his family's escape from Bosnia after he was abducted by Croatian soldiers and hauled to a concentration camp. "It's either get out or you're going to die," he said. "You cannot help your family if you're dead." Mehmed, a Bosnian Muslim, wanted a better life for his family, which at the time was struggling to survive an ethnic war in Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina.He often thinks about his abduction, which occurred nine years ago today, and the opportunities his children, Ermin and Elma, have after fleeing their war-torn homeland. Ermin, 27,...

MOSTAR, Bosnia-Hercegovina (AFP) May 28, 2003 NATO-led peacekeepers in Bosnia said Wednesday they have discovered over three tons of illegal arms at a car dump in the southern town of Mostar. Acting on a tipoff, the NATO-led peacekeeping Stabilisation Force (SFOR) on Tuesday found seven 250-kilo (550-pound) shells and 15 100-kilo (220-pound) bombs in the Muslim-dominated part of town, SFOR spokesman Tomasso Magistrati told journalists. He added that a site has been secured until the explosives could be removed. Mostar, the largest town in southern Bosnia, has remained ethnically divided between its Muslim and Croat communities who fought each other...

Police Detain Armed Man in Bosnia Police Detain Armed Man Near U.S. Commander of Bosnia Peacekeeping Force MOSTAR, Bosnia-Herzegovina July 8 — Police detained a Bosnian man after catching him with a loaded weapon near where the U.S. commander of a peacekeeping force was about to visit, police said Monday. Moments before U.S. Lt. Gen. John B. Sylvester was to arrive at Mostar's city hall, police stopped the 31-year-old man in his car several hundred yards away and found an automatic rifle with a silencer lying in the back seat. "We are focusing on this arrest because of the type...