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Former US President Bill Clinton’s first novel, written with thriller author James Patterson, features a classical music-loving, vegetarian female assassin from Bosnia and Herzegovina as a main character.

Investigators from Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute who search for the remains of war victims have suffered injuries and contracted physical and mental illnesses while conducting exhumations in contaminated and dangerous terrains.

Media associations say that the proposed dismissal of public broadcaster RTCG’s director and editorial team show a clear intent to influence the independence of the public broadcaster.

MPs will vote on plans for the Bulgarian Army to spend 1.6 billion euros over the next decade on buying armoured vehicles and a new type of fighter jet to update the country's ageing military hardware.

Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is appealing against his recent two-year jail sentence but is also awaiting court rulings in four more ongoing cases against him.

Albania’s Central Bank is making a rare intervention in the market to purchase euros after the national currency, the lek, hit an unexpected ten-year high against the European currency.

Because police did not appeal, nationalist singer Marko Perkovic Thompson was acquitted of inciting hatred by using a fascist slogan – also used by a 1990s paramilitary unit – in his popular wartime song.

As US President Donald Trump’s selective blocks on Twitter users are legally challenged, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic continues to bar critics following him on the social network.

Zdravko Mamic, the former chief of Croatian football club Dinamo Zagreb, was found guilty of committing fraud by dodging tax and pocketing millions from star players’ transfers.

The Foreign Ministry warned Macedonian citizens to avoid places in Greece where mass protests are expected on Wednesday in support of the “Greek character of Macedonia”.

Macedonia’s opposition right-wing VMRO DPMNE party called for early general elections in Skopje on Saturday at its first major anti-government rally since it was ousted from power one year ago.

Aleksandar Vucic expressed concern after several reported attacks on Serbs in Kosovo in recent days, although Kosovo police have insisted that some of the Serbian media coverage was false.

A city council's decision to scrap names that sound Turkish or Arabic has drawn complaints from ethnic Turkish parties and the country's Grand Mufti – who called it racist and intolerant.

Sava Janjic, the Serbian Orthodox abbot at the centre of a row over a new road to Montenegro, tells BIRN he won't let Kosovo 'illegally' turn a country lane into an 'international road' without a fight.

Ahead of snap elections in Turkey, Muharrem Ince, from the Turkish Republican People's Party, barnstormed one of Bulgaria's mainly ethnic Turkish towns, addressing some 5,000 supporters.

A witness at the trial for the 1999 murder of opposition journalist Slavko Curuvija denied defence claims that evidence allegedly placing former State Security officers at the scene of the crime was obtained illegally.

An Albanian court dismissed a claim of “moral anguish” brought by a judge and his wife against BIRN Albania.

After analyising Aleksandar Vucic's claims and statements during his first year as Serbia's President, the fact-checking website Istinomer has rated most of them misleading or incorrect.

From the summer palace of Serbia’s vanished Obrenovic dynasty to a German hospital and a post-World War II ‘forbidden zone,’ this beautiful mansion offers a glimpse into a court life as it once was.

Planned amendments to the law granting citizenship to wealthy foreign investors have split the country's parliament – with some claiming it will only worsen Moldova's reputation for corruption.