Bosnia approved Wednesday a $1.5 billion energy project led by investors close to US President Donald Trump that aims to reduce the Balkan country's reliance on Russian natural gas.Â
The project is being pushed by a newly created company headed by Joseph Flynn, the brother of Trump's former adviser Michael Flynn, and Jesse Binnall, previously one of Trump's lawyers.
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