The incomplete remains of two more people were exhumed today from a mass grave that was discovered last Monday at the Dobro Polje site near Kalinovik. Thus, from the beginning of the exhumation until today, the remains of a total of nine persons have been found in this mass grave.

According to the Institute for Missing Persons of B&amp;H, the exhumation at this site has been going on for two weeks, and given the fact that it is a very steep and inaccessible terrain that is being dug by hand, the exhumation will continue in the coming days.
According to the Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is assumed that the skeletal remains found belong to the victims of Bosniak nationality who were murdered in the summer of 1995, and thrown down the steep slope of the Bistrica River canyon.
Some of the victims who were found were tied with wire, and the skeletal remains have traces of gunshot wounds. Along with the remains, some clothes and some personal items were found.
The remains that were found were transferred to the Visoko town cemetery for further criminal and forensic processing, as well as the extraction of bone samples for the purpose of establishing identity through DNA analysis.
The exhumation process led by the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H involves an investigator from the Institute for Missing Persons - INO B&amp;H, representatives of the International Commission for the Search for Missing Persons (ICMP) in B&amp;H, a pathologist, workers and machinery, SIPA members and the RS MoI officers who secure the location.

Some of the victims who were found were tied with wire, and the skeletal remains have traces of gunshot wounds

According to the Institute for Missing Persons of B&H, the exhumation at this site has been going on for two weeks

Incomplete remains of nine victims found in a mass grave near Kalinovik

This morning, members of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA), on the order of the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H, began an investigation in the building of the Intelligence and Security Agency of B&amp;H (ISA), which houses the Federal Police Administration (FUP), the Avaz portal has learned.
According to the information that "Avaz" has, SIPA members are excluding video surveillance footage from ISA in order to check what Denis Prcić, the owner of the American University in B&amp;H, did in this police agency last week.

Prcić is under investigation by the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H together with the director of ISA Osman Mehmedagić, in connection with the issuance of a diploma from the American University to Mehmedagić.

According to the information obtained by "Avaz", Prcić stayed in this police agency for almost an hour last week, and considering that he is a suspect, the question is on what occasion he met with Osman Mehmedagić.
Denis Prcić was questioned in Tuzla yesterday as a suspect.

Prcić is under investigation by the Prosecutor's Office of B&H together with the director of ISA Osman Mehmedagić, in connection with the issuance of a diploma from the American University to Mehmedagić

Osman Mehmedagić and Denis Prcić: Suspects for issuing a diploma from the American University, owned by Prcić

SIPA members are inspecting the building of ISA and FUP, they are excluding video surveillance footage

After Emir Zulejhić, who works for the Raskrinkavanje.ba website (owned by the Association of Citizens "Zašto ne"), published that I had called their association and threatened, I am obliged to address the public.
So, today we received a notification again on the Facebook page "Dnevni avaz" that our page published content that "confuses readers". This is certainly the 10th or 11th time in the last six months that the page of "Dnevni avaz" is under the scrutiny of "Raskrinkavanje" and their journalists who analyze texts published on portals in B&amp;H.

<h2>I will always react vigorously to lump sum and unfounded ratings</h2>

Since I read the analysis in detail to determine why the text we published on our page is incomplete and which was originally published on the portal "Nezavisne novine", and the same text was also published on many other portals in B&amp;H and the region, including N1, Buka, Index.hr, Raport, B92 ... I noticed that the analysis did not include individual portals that also published identical piece of news.
Then I called the phone number which I found on "Raskrinkavanje" page and asked for a journalist who was doing this particular analysis. When the person on the other side told me that she could not give the journalist's contact phone number and that I should contact her by e-mail, and that she was in charge of finances, I asked "who is financing you?".

Then I asked if I should come to them to talk in person with their journalist who published a lump sum analysis that is, who did not include other media in the analysis that published the same piece of news. After that, I exchanged a few messages on Facebook with the journalist who wrote the analysis and who gave me her e-mail address. I duly sent an inquiry and indicated that I needed her answer because I was doing an analysis of their analysis. By the time this text was published, I had not received a response.
This was perceived as a threat. I categorically reject the false accusations of "Raskrinkavanje" that I threatened one of their journalists.
I will always react vigorously to lump sum and unfounded ratings especially when it comes to the media house I work for. Furthermore, I urge all fellow journalists to go public and say how much "Raskrinkavanje" objectively analyzes and how "motivating" it is for people who do their job honestly and fairly to be notified two or three times a month that they have sinned because they did not check the statement. , for example, of Milorad Dodik.

<h2>Numerous objections to their "analyzing"</h2>

- You were obliged to check whether what Dodik said was true - Darko Brkan, a man who heads the Association of Citizens "Zašto ne" and who hangs out with the notorious Avdo Avdić, editor of the obscure paraintelligence portal, a media outlet that "Raskrinkavanje" does not touch and protects it from their "analyzing".
The extent to which "Raskrinkavanje" is objective is shown by the numerous objections to their "analyzing" that other colleagues working for portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina have, such as "Hayat", "Raporta", "Bljesak", "Nezavisne novine", "Patrija", "Face TV", "Radio Sarajevo" ... to whom the "analyzing" of "Raskrinkavanje" is inflicting enormous financial damage, and who are already considering a joint response to the attacks of Darko Brkan and his team.
To summarize, I did not threaten, I did speak perhaps loude, I did not mention any "scattering" nor did it ever occur to me.
I advise my colleagues from "Raskrinkavanje" to pay more attention to objective analyzing in their work, and less to personal sympathies and selective protection of portals and editors close to them.

I categorically reject the false accusations of "Raskrinkavanje" that I threatened one of their journalists

Reponse to "Raskrinkavanje": I did not threaten anyone, you have no right to selectively destroy portals that you do not like

Inspectors of the Cantonal Administration for Inspection Affairs (KUIP) entered the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo yesterday, where they are checking the academic education of Sebija Izetbegović, director of KCUS.
The Cantonal Administration for Inspection Affairs, after not receiving the request of the SC Government, formed the case on the initiative of the acting Director of KUIP Adis Mešić. We found out that at the Medical Faculty, supervision is performed by two inspectors.
The request was formed last week, but the return of the inspectors from the seminar held in Neum was awaited.
We would like to remind you that the director of KCUS found herself at the center of a new affair because it is suspicious that she completed 10 postgraduate exams in Zagreb, which were then, according to unconfirmed information, recognized in Sarajevo.
It is disputable that she enrolled in postgraduate studies on March 2nd, 1993, and passed the first exam on March 19th.
More precisely, she passed the first exam in 17 days. Earlier, it was said from this institution in Zagreb that Sebija was not a registered postgraduate student at all.
The inspectorate is interested in Sebija's academic education.

The inspectorate is interested in Sebija's academic education

Inspectors entered the Faculty of Medicine, Sebija Izetbegović's diploma is being checked

A Moscow court fined on Thursday social media platform Facebook for 17 million rubles (more than $236,500) and messaging app Telegram for 10 million rubles (over $139,000).

At a hearing in Moscow, the Tagansky city court granted Russia's communications watchdog Roskomnadzor for fining Facebook and Telegram, ruling that the companies did not comply with the legislation to delete content, banned in Russia.
Roskomnadzor had previously filed lawsuits against social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter on similar grounds.

Russian watchdog accuses social media platform and messaging app of refusing to delete banned content

Roskomnadzor had previously filed lawsuits against social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter on similar grounds

Moscow court fines Facebook, Telegram for over $375K in total

Greece on Wednesday announced further relaxation in COVID-19-related restrictions.

In a televised address, Deputy Minister for Civil Protection &amp; Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias announced that as of Saturday, the night curfew will begin one hour later at 01:30 a.m. until 05:00 a.m local time.
-As of July 1, the curfew will be lifted if the conditions allow it- Hardalias said, referring to the epidemiological data.
Music will be allowed at outdoor cafes and restaurants, while cafes and restaurants that are well-ventilated and have a separate entrance and exit will be allowed to reopen for indoor dining.
Venues with a capacity of 1,000 people will be allowed to accept 75% of their total capacity, 70% for up to 5,000 people and 65% for venues with capacity up to 15,000 people.
Meanwhile, the number of new infections in the country are seeing a significant decline, with 890 new virus cases recorded on Wednesday, down from 1,339 on Tuesday.
The total number of cases in the country has reached 412,420 cases since the beginning of the outbreak, according to the National Public Health Organization.
Greece also registered 15 deaths over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll in the country to 12,346.
Some 106 COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospital over the last 24 hours.
Greece has administered more than 6 million jabs so far, with around 4 million having received at least one dose.​​​​​​​

As of July 1, night curfews to be lifted if epidemiological data allows it, says deputy minister

Music will be allowed at outdoor cafes and restaurants, while cafes and restaurants that are well-ventilated and have a separate entrance and exit will be allowed to reopen for indoor dining

Greece further relaxes COVID-19 restrictions

The key evidence of the cover-up of Dženan Memić's murder is in the possession of the "Avaz" editorial office, and its authenticity has been confirmed to us from several different sources. Namely, this is a video from the fateful night of February 8th, 2016, which was taken from the video surveillance of the mosque in Lužani. It is clear that Dženan's BMW, a gray metallic color, in which Alisa Mutap is, passes by the mosque in Lužani at exactly 09.28.28 PM. 
This means that more than an hour has passed since Dženan and Alisa met before the first report to the Emergency Room and Police, which, as far as Dženan is concerned, was done only at 10.47 PM, as evidenced by audio recordings from the ambulance system, which the "Avaz" portal previously published.

Investigators ruled out the possibility of inaccurate time stamp from the camera, as far as summer and winter time is concerned, and the timing is supported by the statements of several witnesses who saw Dženan and Alisa walking by the fountain at around 9.30 PM and "had the impression that they were arguing".
The Sarajevo Prosecutor's Office had this recording, but it never used it in the investigation, indictment, or during the main trial of Ljubo and Bekrija Seferović. The question is why no one paid the attention to this key piece of evidence, and this will certainly be determined by the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H.
Namely, this video casts a shadow on the exact time of the report to the police that Dženan was injured in relation to the real time when he was injured.

The time of the call to the Sarajevo Emergency Room is also in question (a member of the Directorate for Coordination of Police Bodies of B&amp;H calls the Ambulance at 10.37 PM and says that the "girl hit a tree with a car").
The man (Dženan) is mentioned in this communication only 10 minutes later, at 10.47 PM, when the head of the DKP shift informed the ambulance that "the man was seriously injured". The unfortunate young man was brought to the Emergency Room at 11:13 PM.
Dženan Memić passed away on February 15th at 4.45 AM, and the family was notified at 6.30 AM.
As a source close to the investigation revealed to us, the theory about the whole case is completely changing.
If we take into account the statement of the late doctor Alija Čelja, who operated on Dženan, in which he says: "We could help the young man if he was brought earlier", many more people are suspected, because in that hour hemorrhage in the brain and swelling of brain tissue they brought Dženan's body to a condition that was irreparable, despite the operation that was done upon admission. Namely, time is crucial in this case, claims our source.

Alisa Mutap in her statement to the SC Ministry of the Interior, which she gave to Hasan Dupovac on February 10th (arrested and detained for covering up Dženan's murder), says that she met Dženan at 9.30 PM in front of Ilidža Police Department, after which they went to Zmajevac and Vidikovac, and on the other hand the video shows his vehicle in Lužani at 9.28.28 PM, which excludes the possibility that they went to Zmajevac and Vidikovac. And that is ruled out by eyewitnesses who saw them walking by the fountain.

During the statement given on April 5th, 2016 in the Sarajevo prosecutor's office, Mutap states that she met with Dženan at 9.15 PM, after which they went to Vidikovac, and then to the "Kovači" bakery.
At the main trial of the Ljubo i Bekrija Seferović, held on October 24th, 2016, Mutap testified that she accidentally met Dženan in Velika Aleja at exactly 9 PM. She sovereignly claimed that she was sure that they had met at that time, because she looked at her watch "because of a friend who had to go home".
According to the list of things she was wearing, the watch is not mentioned, only a black jacket and black jeans, but that is not as important as the fact that 30 minutes are lost in her three statements. So, why is she "stealing" time, investigators and prosecutors of the State Prosecutor's Office ask themselves. After that, Alisa says in the courtroom that she met Dženan at the MUP in Ilidža at exactly 9.25 PM, and that Dženan invited her.

Footage from the mosque in Lužani confirms that they met at around 9.30 PM, and according to the communication that was taken from their mobile phones, that was confirmed. They were just a two-minute walk from where Dženan was reported injured.
Another suspicious circumstance, which Dženan's father Muriz Memić spoke about in his testimony, is the fact that Dženan's mobile phone was constantly ringing and vibrating on the fateful day. His father remembered that, because he had warned Dženan about the phone, given that they had three funerals that day, and his phone kept ringing — until he met with Alisa.
That communication was excluded and is in the possession of the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H. This video completely, as a source close to the investigation told us, and unequivocally proves that in an hour, as long as Dženan was lying injured, the scene, wherever it was, could have been "cleared of traces" and the actors could agree on reversing the direction of the investigation.

<h2>Is the Great Alley really a crime scene</h2>

What is now being checked within the investigation of the Prosecutor's Office of B&amp;H, and due to the suspicion of organized cover-up of the murder of a young man from Sokolović-Kolonija, is the exact place of the crime. Namely, three police officers and one doctor in their four statements stated different positions in which they found Dženan's body in the Great Alley.
One police officer said he found Dženan on his left side and another on his right side, while a third said he was lying on his back. On the other hand, the ambulance doctor said that he found the young man lying on his stomach. Investigators are checking, and for what, as we have learned unofficially from a source close to the investigation, there is a well-founded suspicion, whether Dženan was seriously injured, brought and left in the Great Alley. These allegations have yet to be confirmed.

<h2>Mud on shoes and weather forecast</h2>

Our source justifiably wonders why other things are not exempt from Alisa Mutap, except for jeans and a jacket. Why weren't her mud-shod shoes taken away? This fact, according to our source, in the investigation of the Sarajevo Prosecutor's Office is justified by the fact that it rained on the fateful night, which is not true and can be verified by a simple insight into the weather forecast of February 8th, 2016 and it is clear that it was dry and Mutap and Memić were moving on the asphalted surface, where there was no mud.

Dženan's BMW was filmed in Lužani at exactly 09.28.28 PM on February 8th, 2016, and the first call to the police and the Emergency Room was made the same night at 10.47 PM

Video / Key evidence of the murder of young man Dženan Memić: What does the video from the mosque hide?

Chair of the Interdepartmental Working Group for Amendments to the Electoral Legislation Alma Čolo spoke today with the Head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Kathleen Kavalec, who stressed that the OSCE Mission fully supports the Interdepartmental Group's activities.

Kavalec expressed hope that the work of the group would result in proposed amendments to the law that would represent a step forward in line with the achievements of democratic societies.
Čolo and Kavalec jointly assessed that the work on the amendments to the electoral legislation must be done in such a way as to take into account the opinions and recommendations of domestic institutions and experts with experience in this field.
At the same time, Kavalec underlined the readiness of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and other OSCE experts to contribute to resolving the problems burdening the election process in Bosnia and Herzegovina, stated the PA B&amp;H.

Ambassador expressed hope that the work of the group would result in proposed amendments to the law that would represent a step forward in line with the achievements of democratic societies

Čolo and Kavalec meet to discuss amendments to the electoral legislation

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Thursday that vaccination rates in Europe were still far off what was needed to stop a virus resurgence and called on countries to maintain protective measures.

According to the organisation, 30 percent of people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 17 percent have been fully vaccinated in the WHO's European Region - which spans 53 countries and territories and includes several in Central Asia.
-Although we have come far, we have not come far enough- Hans Kluge, the WHO's regional director for Europe, told a press conference. 
-Vaccination coverage is far from sufficient to protect the region from a resurgence. The distance to go before reaching at least 80 percent coverage of the adult population is still considerable- Kluge added.
He noted that the region had seen an overall decline in new cases, hospitalisations and deaths for two consecutive months, but urged nations to avoid repeating the "mistake" of last summer by easing measures prematurely, leading to a resurgence in the autumn.
-Over the course of last summer, cases gradually rose in younger age groups and then moved into older age groups, contributing to a devastating resurgence, lockdowns and loss of life, in the autumn and winter of 2020- Kluge said.
He called on countries to take "last year's lessons aboard," by acting fast on signals of increasing cases, expanding testing and contact tracing, and "rapidly attaining very high vaccine uptake in the most vulnerable populations."
He also called on people to "enjoy the summer safely" by adhering to health guidelines.

Kluge: The region had seen an overall decline in new cases, hospitalisations and deaths for two consecutive months

30 percent of people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 17 percent have been fully vaccinated

COVID vaccination in Europe 'far from sufficient' to avoid resurgence

A 28-year-old mediaeval history enthusiast who slapped French President Emmanuel Macron risks up to three years in jail when he appears in court for the first time on Thursday, having told investigators he acted "without thinking".

The man, named as Damien T., has been in custody since the incident on Tuesday and is expected to be convicted of assaulting a public figure when he appears before a magistrate in the southern town of Valence.
The charge carries a maximum three-year jail sentence and a fine of 45,000 euros ($55,000), although the court will take into account the defendant's clean criminal record and any expression of remorse.
-He contends that he acted instinctively and 'without thinking' to express his annoyance- a statement from the local prosecutor's office said late on Wednesday. 
Damien T., described by friends as usually shy and placid, also told investigators that he sympathised with anti-government "yellow vest" protesters and leaned to the right/far-right in his political views, but had no party affiliation.
The long-haired resident of the village of Saint-Villier, who has no fixed profession, is passionate about mediaeval history and martial arts and shouted an old royalist slogan as he struck the president.
His friend, named as Arthur C., was arrested at the same time on Tuesday having filmed the slap, but will not be charged over the incident, the prosecutor said.
Macron shrugged off the assault, calling it an "isolated event", and he has vowed to continue meting voters despite concerns for his personal security. 
Leaders across the political spectrum have shown rare unity in condemning the incident, with many seeing it as a symptom of the fraught political climate and declining public debate just weeks from regional elections and 10 months from presidential polls.
Macron, 43, whose personal ratings have risen recently, is expected to seek a second term next year. 
Polls show him holding a narrow lead over his main rival, far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

A 28-year-old Damien T., has been in custody since the incident on Tuesday

French President Emmanuel Macron (L) and his wife Brigitte Macron (C) interact with members of a crowd while visiting Valence on June 8, 2021 during a visit in the French southeastern department of Drôme, the second stage of a nationwide tour ahead of next year's presidential election

Man who slapped Macron risks jail at court hearing

The Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fadil Novalić, said today during the break of the Government session in Mostar, that a contract on direct procurement of 500,000 doses of Sinofarm vaccines was signed with the manufacturer.

He pointed out that the public is aware that the Federation of B&amp;H directly negotiated with China for the procurement of these vaccines, and that the contract was signed on behalf of the Government of the Federation of B&amp;H by the Acting Director of the Institute of Public Health of the FB&amp;H Siniša Skočibušić.
-It is also known that due to the publicity clause, that we are not able to give more information about this. The Government of China has approved the amount of half a million doses of vaccines to the Federation of B&amp;H. Everywhere in the world, the states are the ones that procure vaccines, and the FB&amp;H Government has undertaken, is undertaking and will undertake all activities to procure vaccines for the citizens of the FB&amp;H- said Novalić.
He stressed that they have never given up on any option to procure vaccines and stressed that they are trying to procure Pfizer vaccines in agreement with the state level.
On behalf of the FB&amp;H Government, Novalić thanked the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in B&amp;H and the Embassy of B&amp;H in China.

He stressed that they have never given up on any option to procure vaccines and stressed that they are trying to procure Pfizer vaccines in agreement with the state level

Novalić: We signed a direct procurement contract for 500,000 Sinofarm vaccines

Russia on Thursday suggested that Washington was quick to condemn the designation of Alexei Navalny's groups as extremist because the jailed Kremlin critic was in fact working for the United States.

A Moscow court late on Wednesday ruled to designate Navalny's regional offices and his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) as "extremist", barring them from working in Russia.
The US State Department called the action "particularly disturbing" and said it was part of a pattern of restricting fundamental rights in Russia.
In a radio interview on Thursday morning, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the response showed the extent of US interference in Russia's affairs.
-Can you imagine seeing such an instant reaction from the State Department to a domestic or some other internal decision in another country?- she said in the interview broadcast on YouTube and state radio.
-Then in a few hours they make a special statement. This means that they are politically involved in the story- she said, adding that Washington was thus exposing its "agents".
-They show such political zeal because it touches those whom they supervised, those whom they supported politically and in other ways- Zakharova said. 
Prosecutors in April had requested that Navalny's organisations be hit with the "extremist" label, saying the group was plotting an uprising with support from the West.
Navalny's network of regional offices had helped organise a smart voting strategy that urged voters to cast ballots for those most likely to defeat Kremlin-linked candidates.
Ahead of parliamentary elections in September -- in which the deeply unpopular ruling United Russia party is expected to struggle -- lawmakers passed legislation that bans members and sponsors of "extremist" groups from running in the polls.

Prosecutors in April had requested that Navalny's organisations be hit with the "extremist" label, saying the group was plotting an uprising with support from the West

Russia calls Navalny US 'agent' after extremism ruling

President Joe Biden will on Thursday announce a "historic" US donation of half a billion Covid-19 vaccine doses for 92 poorer countries, the White House said.

The United States is buying 500 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, including 200 million set to be delivered around the world by the end of this year. The remainder will be sent out by June 2022, the White House said in a statement.
This "largest ever purchase and donation of vaccines by a single country" will "help supercharge the global fight against the pandemic," the White House said.
Biden, who is attending a G7 summit in Britain this week, "will also call on the world's global democracies to do their parts in contributing to the global supply of safe and effective vaccines."
The United States has come under criticism for sitting on huge stocks of unused vaccines, something the government says was initially necessary as a precautionary measure in its own race to get shots into the arms of Americans.
However, with domestic vaccination rates now having reached 64 percent of adults receiving at least one dose, Washington is moving quickly to reclaim global leadership on the issue.
Dismissing suggestions that the United States is in a so-called vaccine diplomacy contest with Russia and China, the White House describes its initiatives as a return to multilateral action after the nationalist isolationism of Donald Trump's presidency.
This new, huge surge in donations aims "to save lives and end the pandemic," the White House said.
With the pandemic largely tamed at home, "the United States is using the power of our democracy, the ingenuity of American scientists, and the strength of American manufacturing to beat the pandemic globally by helping to vaccinate the world."
The vaccines will be distributed through the international Covax program to "low and lower-middle income nations."
The announcement came on top of an earlier pledge to donate some 80 million vaccines by the end of June, as well as a $2 billion contribution to COVAX funding.
-President Biden has been clear that borders cannot keep this pandemic at bay and has vowed that our nation will be the arsenal of vaccines- the statement said.
Biden hinted at the announcement Wednesday before boarding Air Force One bound for Britain to meet with fellow G7 leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
Asked if he had a vaccine strategy for the world, he said: "I have one and I'll be announcing it."
The New York Times said Biden would appear with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla to make the announcement.
The deal would see the US paying "not for profit" price for the doses, according to US media reports.

The vaccines will be distributed through the international Covax program

The New York Times said Biden would appear with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla to make the announcement

US buys half billion Pfizer Covid vaccine doses for poorest countries

A Russian journalist has been banned from covering football's European Championship by Azerbaijan's organising committee over his visits to the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, sparking outrage in Moscow on Wednesday.

Nobel Arustamyan, a journalist with Armenian ancestry working for the Russian Match TV station, said Tuesday that Azerbaijan's organising committee has denied him accreditation for Euro 2020 that is being organised in 11 European cities including the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.
The approval of the 11 national organising committees is necessary for journalists to be accredited.
The oil-rich country on the Caspian Sea is set to host three group games in June -- Wales v Switzerland, Turkey v Wales, Switzerland v Turkey -- and a quarter-final in July.
The vice president of the Azerbaijani Football Federation, Elkhan Mammadov, confirmed his country was behind the refusal.
-This person has repeatedly visited the occupied lands of Azerbaijan for many years and during these visits did not receive permission from the relevant structures of Azerbaijan- Mammadov told journalists.
-He violated the laws of our country, showing disrespect for the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.-Azerbaijan's Armenian-populated breakaway region of Karabakh was last year at the centre of a six-week war between the arch-foe neighbours.
The war has claimed the lives of some 6,000 people and ended in November with a Russian-brokered ceasefire that saw Armenia cede swathes of territories it had controlled for decades.
Azerbaijan's move to block Arustamyan's accreditation sparked outrage among Russian journalists and elicited a protest from his channel.
-The refusal of a regional federation to approve the name of our commentator is a violation of the spirit of the international sports movement- the general producer of Match TV, Tina Kandelaki, wrote on her Telegram channel.
Sports journalist Vasili Utkin denounced "a bestial injustice."
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the ministry had "worked all night" with UEFA to ensure Aroustamyan is allowed "to exercise his professional activities."
-I believe a solution will be found- she added.
Azerbaijani laws prohibit the entry into its territory of those who have visited Nagorno-Karabakh without permission from Baku.
In 2019, Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan missed, for security reasons, the Europa League final between his then team Arsenal and Chelsea that was played in Baku.

Nobel Arustamyan, a journalist with Armenian ancestry working for the Russian Match TV station, said Tuesday that Azerbaijan's organising committee has denied him accreditation

Azerbaijan organisers ban Russian journalist from Euro 2020

A French mayor who continued to run his town near Paris from jail after being convicted for rape has been formally replaced following months of pressure and criticism from women's rights groups.

The town council in Draveil elected deputy mayor Richard Privat late on Tuesday to replace Georges Tron who resigned from his cell at the end of May after more than 25 years at the helm. 
Tron, a junior minister under right-president Nicolas Sarkozy, began serving a three-year sentence in February for raping a council employee who the court found had been pressured into sex.
Several women testified that Tron imposed foot massage sessions on them that would involve groping and digital penetration, at times turning into threesomes with his deputy Brigitte Gruel.
While feminists saw his conviction as a victory for France's MeToo movement, Tron denied the allegations, saying that the foot massages were not sexual and that he was the victim of a political "plot".
In his resignation letter at the end of May, he wrote of the "very painful decision" to relinquish his mayoral responsibilities, arguing that he should still be presumed innocent because he had not exhausted all legal appeals.
His decision to carry on running Draveil, a town of 30,000 people in the southern suburbs of Paris, outraged opposition councillors and women's rights groups.
In April, at a council meeting attended by AFP, a subordinate opened proceedings by reading out a letter and instructions on the budget drafted by Tron, 63, in jail. 
-The seriousness of the allegations for which Georges Tron has been found guilty deprive him of the moral authority needed to carry out his duties- the opposition group in the council said in a statement at the time. 
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said in May that there was "ongoing work" into revoking Tron's mayoral title, but he acknowledged "legal issues." 
Tron remains a town councillor and a member of the regional assembly, but this latter mandate expires at the end of the month.

Georges Tron resigned from his cell at the end of May after more than 25 years at the helm

Tron, a junior minister under right-president Nicolas Sarkozy, began serving a three-year sentence in February for raping a council employee who the court found had been pressured into sex

End of era for convicted French mayor who ran town from prison

The US State Department updated travel warnings for dozens of countries worldwide on Tuesday, including Turkey. 

In all, the department changed its travel advisories for 114 countries, according to a State Department statement. The majority of the revisions - 58 - were countries being upgraded from Level 4 Do Not Travel to Level 3 Reconsider Travel, including Turkey.
Other nations that saw their travel warnings loosened include Summer Olympics host Japan as well as France and Germany.
People who are thinking of visiting Japan should reconsider travel due to COVID-19, the department said as the East Asian country prepares to hold the Olympics beginning in late July. It pointed to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Level 3 travel warning, as it did with Germany and France and dozens of other nations.
Three countries - the British Virgin Islands, Samoa and Sudan - were downgraded to Level 4.
Ten countries have been upgraded to Level 1 Exercise Normal Precautions, the lowest level of precaution given by the State Department. They include Antigua &amp; Barbuda , Eswatini , French Polynesia , Gambia, Ghana , Malawi , Malta , Senegal , Singapore , South Korea and Togo.

State Department changes advisories for countries including Olympics host Japan, Germany, France and Turkey

The majority of the revisions - 58 - were countries being upgraded from Level 4 Do Not Travel to Level 3 Reconsider Travel

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