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Legal experts and Bosnian war victims have slated the Serbian Appeal Court, after it acquitted ten people charged with helping to conceal the former Bosnian Serb commander, Ratko Mladic.

At the time of insecurity over terrorism and natural disasters, a couple from Bosnia and their friend from Serbia have created a smart phone application called 'Ping' that warns users of imminent dangers in their vicinity.

Durres-born sculptor Helidon Xhixha - who has achieved international acclaim for his abstract steel art - tells BIRN in an interview that while he remains proud to be an Albanian, true art transcends national barriers.

While the French President is expected to use his Eastern European trip to raise the issue of cheap migrant labour, Romania and Bulgaria hope to use the French leader’s visit to push their own agendas.

Two boats carrying Syrians and Iraqis seized in a week by Romanian Coast Guard in the Black Sea have raised concerns that a new migration route is opening up. 

The EU has expressed hopes that Belgrade and Skopje will “deal with the issue calmly” after Serbia withdrew all diplomatic staff from the country.

Belgrade court found on Tuesday the retired Bosnian Serb general Marko Lugonja guilty of hiding the fugitive Ratko Mladic in his apartment in 2002.

Serbian media has accused Macedonia of tapping Serb officials’ communications amid an ongoing diplomatic scandal between Belgrade and Skopje.

The forest fires devastating the coastal region of Dalmatia have prompted authorities to sound the alarm for all Croatia’s firefighting units.

Planned school trips to terror-struck Barcelona this week look like going ahead as arranged, despite a government ministry suggesting schools should cancel them.

The political crisis in Turkey is motivating many Turkish companies to shift their business operations to the nearby Balkan states.

The retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, two former leaders of the Serbian State Security Service, SDB, for crimes in Croatia and Bosnia continues on Tuesday.

The US State Department has dismissed Serbian claims that the late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke wrote to Milosevic, pledging that Washington would not recognise Kosovo's independence.

Hundreds of family members, survivors and activists on Monday commemorated the 200 Bosniak and Croat men killed by Bosnian Serbs at Koricani cliff on Mt Vlasic in 1992.

BIRN’s latest Summer School opened on Monday in Dubrovnik with interactive sessions on advanced digital research and use of open data sources.

Serbian leaders say they withdrew diplomatic staff from Macedonia after receiving intelligence about 'offensive actions' planned against Serbia.

As part of its drive to cover Agrokor's debts of several billion euros, the Croatian company's state management is selling off a company villa on the Adriatic coast for 7 million euros, formerly used by Agrokor owner Ivica Todoric.

Marking the 19th anniversary of the disappearance of two Serbian radio journalists in Kosovo, a journalists’ association has demanded a fresh investigation into their deaths - and those of other journalists abducted and killed in Kosovo.

Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose has ordered an investigation into the affairs of the state-owned airline Tarom, after the company reported further major losses in the first part of 2017.

Bajram Rexhepi, the first elected Prime Minister of Kosovo, has died in a hospital in Turkey after suffering a stroke earlier this year.