Sarajevo- Bosnian police arrested a former mujahedin leader and fighter facing possible deportation to his homeland Syria, news reports said Tuesday.

Imad Al-Husini, or Abu Hamza, was placed in an immigrant centre after his arrest by Bosnian anti-terror police, according to local newspapers.

He led a mujahedin group fighting Serbs on the side of Muslims in the 1992-95 war in Bosnia.

Sarajevo - Bosnia is under threat of partition, the mood reminiscent of that in Czechoslovakia and in former Yugoslavia before they were split up, Miroslav Lajcak, the international community's representative in the country was quoted to have said Wednesday.

Persistent tension between the Muslim majority and the Serb minority, each thoroughly dominant in their respective area, has hampered Bosnia's progress over much of the 13 years since the end of the war.

Sarajevo - Bosnia and China agreed Friday to seek closer economic ties, and a Bosnian official said his country would welcome Chinese investment.

Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Dejiang signed three cooperation deals in Sarajevo after a visit to Germany and before heading to Macedonia for talks also expected to focus on trade and investment.

"We agreed that we should significantly strengthen our economic and trade cooperation," Bosnia-Herzegovina Prime Minister Nikola Spiric said.

Sarajevo - The chairman of Bosnia's tripartite state presidency Haris Silajdzic said Tuesday in Sarajevo he expects the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague to conduct a fast and efficient trial of top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

"I hope this trial will shed new light and bring new evidence in the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Silajdzic, commenting on news that the former Bosnian Serb leader was transferred early Tuesday morning to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague from Belgrade where he was arrested on July
21.

Sarajevo - The chairman of Bosnia's tripartite state presidency Haris Silajdzic said Tuesday in Sarajevo he expects the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague to conduct a fast and efficient trial of top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

"I hope this trial will shed new light and bring new evidence in the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Silajdzic, commenting on news that the former Bosnian Serb leader was transferred early Tuesday morning to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague from Belgrade where he was arrested on July
21.