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After the ruling VMRO DPMNE party missed Sunday's deadline to form new government, the opposition Social Democrats are upping pressure on President Gjorge Ivanov to entrust them with the same task.

Justice Minister Ylli Manjani has accused Prime Minster Edi Rama and the government of firing him for speaking out about corruption and the scale of cannabis cultivation.

Visnja Acimovic was charged with involvement in the shooting of 37 Bosniak prisoners in the Vlasenica municipality in 1992.

The mainly Bosniak Party for Democratic Action, SDA, has condemned the latest call for the creation of third entity in Bosnia, mostly comprising the country's Croats.

A moving exhibition of mementoes of children who lived through the war has finally opened after the War Childhood Museum secured enough funding to acquire a permanent home.

Former Prime Minister and VMRO DPMNE party leader Nikola Gruevski missed his deadline to form a new government after failing to secure support from his former partner, the Democratic Union for Integration.

Bulgarian environmental groups are staging a protest in front of the Presidency on Monday, calling on President Radev to veto recent legal changes that they say will harm the country's national parks.

Non-profit media await a final decision on their appeals for funds from Croatia's new culture minister - but some fear she will continue the controversial policies of her predecessor.

Newly released photographs of Serbia's Health Minister as a young man in the company of notorious gangster have prompted fresh calls for a probe into his relations with the Zemun Clan.

Romania's Justice Ministry started a limited public debate on Monday on controversial decrees that would pardon convicted politicians and decriminalize abuse of office.

The son of an ethnic Albanian man killed during wartime told BIRN that Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas led by war crimes suspect Remzi Shala took his father away in June 1998.

Two former Bosnian Serb soldiers and an ex-policeman were charged with crimes against humanity over the torture and subsequent forced disappearance of six Bosniaks from Visegrad in 1992.

The US Senate must end the anxiety in Montenegro over the NATO Accession Protocol, which is only serving the interests of the Kremlin’s political allies in the country.

Albanian families who hosted persecuted Jews in World War II were awarded medals on Holocaust Day on Friday, while other activities were held in Tirana to remember the solidarity people demonstrated under the Nazis.

Montenegro’s government is bringing in a new law against female genital mutilation which will send anyone performing the operation to jail for up to eight years.

Beijing sees its new Bank of China branch, just opened in Belgrade, as forming part of a strategy aimed at conquering Balkan and European markets.

State institutions and individuals have started applying for access to information kept confidential in secret police files for more than 25 years after the Albanian Communist regime fell.

The new cabinet led by Ognyan Gerdjikov, the former speaker of parliament, will be in charge of organising early elections and preparing Bulgaria’s 2018 EU Presidency.

Proposed legislation that would pardon convicted politicians or reduce their jail terms is widely seen as an attempt to undermine Romania's campaign to stamp out corruption.

The anti-fascist association in the town of Sibenik will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day with a reading of Anne Frank’s diary after a local school director barred an exhibition about the WWII diarist.