Decision to merely fine three members of the Telegram group Albkings for the repeated harassment of a BIRN journalist condemned as 'an extraordinarily lenient sentence that fails to meet legal or ...

The Interior Ministry is seeking to prosecute Mabel Matiz over his latest song, which it says is obscene and undermines public morality.

Politicians have joined figures from the arts and acting world in paying tribute to Enver Petrovci, who has passed away at the age of 71. Enver Petrovci in 2021. Photo: BIRN Enver Petrovci, one of ...

John Stewart Duncan told the court the KLA was 'not a hierarchical organisation where people do what they are told' – and real power lay with the operational zone commanders. This post is also ...

Tough new bill introducing fines and prison terms for illegal migrants draws condemnation from opposition parties and human rights organisations. Refugees and migrants walk towards the port authority ...

Europe must wake up to the threat of an emerging cocaine hub in West Africa, built by Western Balkan crime gangs. At first glance, the developing ports of West Africa and the criminal underworld of ...

As a new school year begins in North Macedonia, Vesna Janevska says deep-seated problems in the country’s education system will take years to sort out. The shortage of free-of-charge textbooks at the ...

A school history textbook for teenage pupils in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity continues to ignore the crimes of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic despite a court ruling in Sarajevo demanding it be ...

Justice Department says Slobodan Letic should lose his US citizenship for concealing his involvement in war crimes in Brcko in 1992. The United States Justice Department says Slobodan Letic should ...

The new data comes as anti-immigration parties across Europe gain support, including in Czechia where a general election will be held next month. Migrants walk along the railway crossing in the ...

October’s local polls are shaping into a bareknuckle fight between two ethnic Albanian blocs, each claiming to be the community’s ‘authentic’ representative. Local elections due in North Macedonia in ...

Police made multiple arrests at a student-led demonstration in Novi Sad on Friday night, which descended into violence following a police intervention. Forty-two people were arrested at the protest in ...