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A growing chorus of voices say Croatia’s public broadcaster HRT is succumbing to political pressure and becoming an echo chamber for the government – just as it was in the 1990s.

Authorities in Bosnia are determined make sure the growing number of people renting out their apartments for the day register the business and pay tax on the profits.

The deputy mayor of Pristina's call to build a mosque on the campus of Pristina University has sparked adverse reactions in Kosovo, while the municipality says it does not back the idea.

The ousting of Nikola Gruevski’s regime in 2017 brought new hope for those who felt they were unjustly tried for terrorism in several murky, high-profile court cases that troubled inter-ethnic relations in Macedonia.

A suggestion that Romania may follow America in moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem has dismayed Palestinians.

MP Daut Haradinaj, a former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter and brother of the prime minister, said that arrests by the new Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers would cause a major backlash.

Fourteen Bosniak ex-fighters were charged with crimes against humanity for the killings, torture, abuse, illegal detention and inhumane treatment of Serb civilians from the Konjic area in 1992 and 1993.

Moldova's Pro-Russian President, Igor Dodlon, has sparked a fresh political crisis after rejecting all the names of candidates for a government reshuffle following his return from Moscow.

A banner in memory of Croatian fascist leader Ante Pavelic, who died 58 years ago, was found hanging on a kindergarten fence in the southern town of Siroki Brijeg in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

More than 100 workers from a troubled oil refinery arrived in the capital to stage a protest at the Ministry of Energy, demanding that the authorities intervene to resolve their problems with unpaid wages.

Decision to extradite Kurdish activist to Turkey despite UN committee's advice marks continuation of worrying trend towards disrespect for human rights rulings, experts say.

Courts in the Balkans usually side with mothers in child custody cases. Now some fathers are fighting the system. Kids are caught in the crossfire.

The conviction of Ratko Mladic was cheered by Bosniaks but condemned by Bosnian Serb leaders, while rival reactions to the acquittal of Bosniak commander Naser Oric also highlighted the country’s continuing ethnic discord.

A 30-year-old Belgrade man is the first person in Serbia to die from complications caused by measles, highlighting a crisis blamed on the relatively low number of vaccinations.

Inspectors in Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity have halted work on Delta's giant mall in Banja Luka, saying the company has not got the right permits.

Prosecutors believe one of the country’s most acclaimed kidney transplant surgeons for years ran a lucrative business, transferring patients from the state institute where he worked to his own private clinic. 

The international police organisation has reportedly dismissed Russian court’s request to add Moldova’s pro-Western party leader, Vlad Plahotniuc, to its ‘wanted’ list.

There are still almost 100,000 war-displaced people in the country, thousands of them without homes and living in desperate poverty, says new research by a Bosnian NGO and the UN refugee agency.

Serbia has removed about 150 refugees who were protesting on the border with Croatia, demanding admission to the country, accusing them of abusing its hospitality.

Serbia’s Anti-Corruption Agency has called for a check on transactions made by President Aleksandar Vucic's Progressive Party during his presidential bid, suspecting illegal donations.