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Anti-NATO protesters rallied in the Serbian city of Nis on Friday as hardline right-wing organizations demanded a referendum on joining the Western military alliance.

New Croatian deputy tourism minister Robert Pauletic is known for his teenage successes on TV quizzes, but misleading reports he published as a wartime tabloid editor have largely been forgotten.

Unnamed man jailed for five years in Linz after 20 migrants were found in the back of his truck.

As northern Europe changes it policies towards migrants, Balkan countries cooperate and prepare for new challenges.

In the second installment of a three-part feature, writer Altin Raxhimi follows the rugged path leading to good kashkavall cheese.

The Bosnian prosecution asked the state court to revoke a verdict that acquitted ex-soldier Aleksandar Cvetkovic of participating in the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.

Albania plans to boost the under-performing tourism sector by offering to lease land for development at a symbolic price of only one euro.

A new civic party, 'Civic Strength', aims to run in the October local elections in the city that gave birth to a nationwide protest movement in Bosnia.

The junior party in Albania's government, the Socialist Movement for Integration, LSI, has hired a powerful Washington lobbying firm to boost its profile in the US.

In a move to challenge parliament's election of a new President of Kosovo on February 26, an opposition party is considering taking its complaints to the Constitutional Court.

Serbia's government on Thursday axed the head of Electric Power Industry, EPS, for buying luxury vehicles - in a move widely seen as a start to the general election campaign.

Pristina’s appeals court confirmed the jailing of three men convicted of organised crime in connection with organ-trafficking at Kosovo’s Medicus clinic in 2008, but two others were acquitted.

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, whose war crimes verdict is due on March 31, again vowed to resist any attempt to send him back to the UN court in The Hague.

Opposition Vetevendosje (Self-Determination Movement) party activists overturned the truck in protest at Belgrade’s refusal to distribute Kosovo schoolbooks that Pristina donated to ethnic Albanian pupils in Serbia.

US State Department report released on Wednesday says that the Balkan countries remain major transit points for Afghan heroin and other illegal drugs.

As Macedonia moves to tighten its border with Greece, Albania is concerned that the 'refugee route' may be diverted through their country, from where the refugees could aim for Italy.

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Hoyt Yee is visiting Macedonia on Thursday to check on implementation of the internationally brokered accord on ending the country's crisis.

Romania plans to increase its media presence in neighboring Moldova in order to promote EU values and the Romanian language - and counteract Russian influence.

Tourism companies are blaming a fall in the number of visitors to Sarajevo at the beginning of 2016 on media reports of terrorist threats to Bosnia.

A truck with Bulgarian plates was caught trying to leave Kosovo full of documents taken from the Palace of Justice, in an alleged attempt to remove evidence related to an investigation into the construction of the building.