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Popular Bulgarian performer Slavi Trifonov has had his evening show taken off air by private broadcaster bTV. 

Prosecutors asked the Hague Tribunal to increase the jail sentences of six Bosnian Croat leaders accused of wartime crimes in the unrecognised statelet of Herzeg-Bosna to a total of 220 years.

The Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha told far-right American outlet Breitbart he was being targeted by US philanthropist George Soros, as a wave of anti-Soros campaigns sweeps the region.

At the war crimes trial of former Yugoslav general Borislav Djukic, the ex-director of a hydroelectric plant on Lake Peruca in Croatia recalled how it came under repeated attack during the conflict.

The Kosovo government is allowing Serbian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Aleksandar Vucic to visit the northern part of country for three hours on Wednesday.

For a second consecutive day, Macedonian MPs discussed the election of a new speaker, as the VMRO DPMNE party attempts to delay proceedings and prevent a new government coming to office.

After heated debates, Romanian MPs are to vote on whether to constitutionally define family as being based on marriage between a man and a woman, raising concerns over women’s and LGBT rights.

Eleven men are competing to become Serbia’s head of state, promising higher living standards, life without fear and an end to party employment - but whether something will really change remains to be seen.

The Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers, set up to try former Kosovo Liberation Army members for wartime and post-war crimes, could now be judicially operational in May.

Because of a lack of resources, Bosnians convicted of fighting for radical Islamist groups abroad are not helped to ‘deradicalise’ in jail or to reintegrate into society after their release.

At least 17 foreign organisations will monitor Serbia’s presidential elections, but with the OSCE only sending a limited mission, domestic NGOs will carry the greater burden of reporting irregularities.

Serbia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Aleksandar Vucic is set to visit northern Kosovo, where locals hope for a chance to vote fairly.

A former Bosnian Army soldier was jailed for 18 months and had his US citizenship revoked for lying to immigration officials about his role in crimes committed during the war.

Montenegro is moving ever closer to becoming a NATO member after the US Senate agreed hold a final vote soon on approving its accession to the military alliance.

After coming first in Sunday’s general election, it will not be easy for Boyko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party to put together a stable coalition with a majority in parliament.

The Skopje court is expected to rule in the ethnically-charged Kumanovo shootout case in June, but lawyers for the 37 Albanian defendants still hope to bring prominent politicians to appear as witnesses.

As the Vatican dispatches another papal envoy to the controversial shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia, a British journalist recalls his first trip there in the 1980s.

After 26 years of muddle over where people live and work, a government project aims to finally give every family and business in Albania their own fixed address.

By running for the post of Mayor of Zagreb, far-right researcher Bruna Esih poses a threat to the plans of the country’s ruling centre-right party.

Berislav Pusic, the head of the wartime Bosnian Croat prisoner exchange commission, appealed against his conviction, arguing he was not responsible for crimes against Bosniak detainees in 1993 and 1994.