SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Partial results from Bosnia’s election pointed to political deadlock on Monday with leaders and parties divided down ethnic lines.

Muslims supported parties favoring a united Bosnia, Serbs backed nationalists urging secession, and Croats voted for parties seeking their own entity within Bosnia, according to more than 70 percent of votes for the national parliament.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Partial results from Bosnia’s election pointed to political deadlock on Monday with leaders and parties divided down ethnic lines.

Muslims supported parties favoring a united Bosnia, Serbs backed nationalists urging secession, and Croats voted for parties seeking their own entity within Bosnia, according to more than 70 percent of votes for the national parliament.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – The son of Bosnia’s wartime Muslim leader was set to become one of its three presidents, election results showed Monday, but officials said possible fraud could affect the victory of the Serb presidency member.

Since the last vote in 2006, mistrust has deepened between nationalist Croat, Serb and Muslim leaders, and political divisions have widened between the country’s two autonomous regions, the Muslim-Croat federation and the Serb Republic.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – The son of the Muslim wartime leader was ahead in Sunday’s vote to become one of Bosnia’s three presidents, and analysts said he seemed intent on working with other ethnic groups to steer the divided country’s future.

Since the last vote in 2006, mistrust has deepened between nationalist Croat, Serb and Muslim leaders, and political divisions have widened between the country’s two regions, the Muslim-Croat federation and the Serb Republic.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnians vote on Sunday in an election that may decide whether their ethnically divided country moves closer toward the European Union and NATO in the next four years or sinks deeper into stagnation.

Since the last vote in 2006, mistrust has deepened between nationalist Croat, Serb and Muslim leaders, and political divisions have widened between the country’s two regions, the Muslim-Croat federation and the Serb Republic.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre forced a French former U.N. commander to leave a memorial site for victims Friday, angry he had not fulfilled a wartime promise never to abandon the Bosnian town.

On his first visit to Srebrenica since 1995, Philippe Morillon was scheduled to meet town officials and relatives of some of the 8,000 Muslim men and boys slaughtered in the eastern town in July 1995 by Bosnian Serb forces.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul urged Bosnian leaders on Thursday to speed up their country’s efforts to join NATO and the European Union, saying that only a united Bosnia can secure peace and stability in the Balkans.

Bosnia is lagging its neighbours, all former Yugoslav republics, in progressing towards EU and NATO membership because of its continued protectorate status and deep ethnic divisions following the war in the 1990s.

By Daria Sito-Sucic

SARAJEVO (Reuters Life!) – Romanian film director Florin Serban was overwhelmed after showing his debut film this week to 2,000 spectators at the Sarajevo film festival, where he had shopped around his script as an unknown three years before.

“It was a dream to see my movie on this screen,” he said.

His film “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle,” a drama about a teenager’s desperate bid to escape from prison, won the runner-up Jury Prize and the Alfred Bauer Prize for cinematic innovation at the Berlin film festival earlier this year.

DRACE, Croatia (Reuters) – Despite two decades of hardship, war and a loss of markets, Matko Jasprica has kept his Croatian fish farm alive and now hopes to start exporting sea bass and sea bream to the European Union.

It’s just as well, because officials and researchers say fish farming, known as aquaculture, is set to become the world’s main source of seafood over the next 20 years.

DRACE, Croatia (Reuters) – Despite two decades of hardship, war and a loss of markets, Matko Jasprica has kept his Croatian fish farm alive and now hopes to start exporting sea bass and sea bream to the European Union.

It’s just as well, because officials and researchers say fish farming, known as aquaculture, is set to become the world’s main source of seafood over the next 20 years.