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The de-facto collapse of the ruling coalitions at state level in and the Federation Entity are pushing Bosnia deeper into political and economic turmoil.

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Hard-line supporters of the VMRO DPMNE party that ran Macedonia for 11 years say they are outraged that the party has broken its promise not to allow the opposition take power.

Workers at the indebted Serbian Glass Factory in Paracin, owned by Bulgarian tycoon Tsvetan Vasilev - whose extradition is now sought by the Bulgarian authorities - are demanding that the Serbian government help them.

After Bosnian Serb soldier Nikola Barisic stepped on a landmine, his life was saved by ‘enemy’ troops and medics - and he has now returned to donate thousands of euros to their hospital in gratitude.

Bucharest Mayor Gabriel Firea says she is working on updating a feasibility study for a channel linking Bucharest with the Danube, an ambitious project scrapped after the Ceausescu regime fell in 1989.

Meet the Afghan refugee civil engineer who discovered his artistic talent after fleeing to Serbia. 

In a hard-hitting rebuff to devotees of the unofficial shrine, the Pope on Saturday scorned the idea of seers’ receiving daily visions of the Virgin Mary.

Bulgarians had something to celebrate Saturday night when Kristian Kostov came second in the Kiev Eurovision.

Tens of thousand of Albanian opposition supporters gathered in a major rally in the capital, Tirana, on Saturday, where the opposition leader, Lulzim Basha, announced their idea for a "New Republic" of Albania.

Arbana Xharra, who recently resigned as editor-in-chief of the Kosovo-based newspaper Zeri, was the victim of a savage beating on Friday night in the Kosovo capital Pristina.

Serbian State Security surveillance operatives were misused so opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija could be killed in 1999, former head of National Security Goran Petrovic told Belgrade Special Court.

A brief performance in Russian-occupied Crimea has caused controversy for Bulgaria’s Eurovision performer, Kristian Kostov, whose song, ‘Beautiful Mess’ is otherwise tipped to do well.

After Bosnia's national dish, ‘burek’ was sent travelling 25 km up into the atmosphere in 2013, students from the town of Livno are hoping to launch another local delicacy into the heavens.

The state prosecution charged former police commander Bogdan Stevanovic with committing crimes against humanity against Bosniaks in the Skelani and Srebrenica areas in 1992.

Politicians and gas company chiefs have attended the official presentation of the country's biggest natural gas deposit in three decades - as Romania furthers its bid to become a regional energy hub.

Agrokor's state manager, Ante Ramljak, on Thursday said parts of the troubled economic giant will have to be sold off to cover its huge debts of over 5.4 billion euros.

Twenty-four years have passed without any prosecutions for the ambush of the ‘Tuzla Convoy of Salvation’, when seven Bosniak truck drivers and several passengers were killed by Croat forces.

Defence lawyers said in closing arguments at Belgrade Special Court that five former Serb fighters weren’t involved in using civilians from the Croatian village of Lovas as human mine-detectors in 1991.

Aviation experts hope the planned new national carrier - to be launched with Turkish aid - does not crash land as several other airlines did in the past.