If the Macedonian, Greek Prime Ministers, Zoran Zaev and Alexis Tsipras respectively, agree in the next few days on a solution to the name issue in the key phone conversation and convene a meeting in Prespa to make it official, several phases would follow until the parliaments of two countries ratify the deal. Part of […]
An American delegation was engaged in talks on Monday with North Korean officials at the demilitarized zone, raising hopes that a planned meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could be back on. Earlier, the U.S. State Department said U.S. and North Korean officials had met at Panmunjom, a village in […]
Montenegro, seeing a rise in the number of migrants passing through the country on a new route to the European Union, is considering building a razor wire fence on its border with Albania to stem the flow, a government official said on Sunday, Reuters reports. Thousands of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Sarajevo Sunday for a working visit and headed immediately from the airport, under heavy security measures, to the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for talks with a state delegation, led by Presidency chairman Bakir Izetbegovic. Even before Erdogan’s arrival, thousands of Turks came to Sarajevo to attend a day […]
The mayor of Greece’s second-largest city Thessaloniki has been treated in hospital after being beaten up by about a dozen people, officials say. Yiannis Boutaris, 75, was kicked in the head and legs and beaten with bottles by a group of nationalists angry over his appearance at a remembrance event, the BBC reported. The mayor, […]
Diplomats from Europe, China and Russia are discussing a new accord to offer Iran financial aid to curb its ballistic missile development and meddling in the region, in the hope of salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal, a German newspaper reported on Sunday. The officials will meet in Vienna in the coming week under the leadership of senior […]
At least one gunman opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing eight to 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said he could not be precise about the number of deaths at Santa Fe High School, which went on lockdown around 8 a.m. Two suspects believed to be students were […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, whose country Bulgaria is current EU’s presidency-holder, hosts Thursday EU-Western Balkans Summit in Sofia, said that the Western Balkans integration in the EU is put back on the agenda after 15 years. “Everyone understands the importance of the Western Balkans and therefore 15 years after the Thessaloniki meeting we have […]
The two issues that remain for an agreement are the erga omnes application of the name decided and a revision of that country’s Constitution, stated Alternate Foreign Minister responsible for European Affairs George Katrougalos, talking to the Greek News Agency radio station “Praktoreio,” ANA-MPA reports. “These are issues that are not minor, which FYROM has […]
At least 52 Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli troops and dozens of others have been wounded as thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Gaza border ahead of the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. At the embassy inauguration ceremony, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump for “having the courage to keep […]
The Greek government junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), headed by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, sticks to the position against including the term Macedonia in the name of our country. The party’s strong position was once again reiterated by the ANEL’s spokeswoman Madalena Papadopoulou in an interview with RealFM radio. “We cannot accept the name […]
The TURKEN Foundation, that “enables students, scholars, researchers to realize both their full potential and the available services” in the U.S. and assists them “at any kind of problem” organised a dinner in London where the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a speech on Sunday. Only a day ahead of the move of the American embassy from […]
The suspect in a deadly knife attack in central Paris on Saturday evening is a French citizen born in 1997 in Russia’s republic of Chechnya, sources say. Named by media as Khamzat Asimov, he was on a French watch list of people who could pose a threat to national security, the sources said. Police shot […]
A former Albanian interior minister was put under house arrest Saturday while he is investigated for graft and alleged involvement in a drug trafficking ring, the office of Albania’s top prosecutor said. Prosecutors had asked for Saimir Tahiri to be taken into custody, but Denion Ndrenika, spokesman for the Prosecutor General’s Office, said a court […]
Iraq began voting Saturday in its first parliamentary election since declaring victory over the Islamic State group, with the country hoping to shore up a fragile peace and rebuild, AFP reports. Polling stations opened around the conflict-scarred nation under tight security as the jihadists still pose a major security threat despite a sharp fall in violence. The […]
The foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group (V4) consisting of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, and the four Balkan EU member states including Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia (B4) voiced support of the EU enlargement process at their informal meeting being held Friday in Sounio near Athens. We, friends of the EU enlargement have come here, Croatian […]
US President Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on 12 June, he has said. “We will both try to make it a very special moment for World Peace!” the BBC cites Trump’s tweet. In March, Trump stunned the world by accepting an invitation to meet Mr Kim for an unprecedented […]
Одлуката на Србија за забрана на раководството на Косовскиот карате сојуз и косовските каратисти да влезат во Србија, за да учествуваат на Европското првенство во карате од 10 до 13 мај во Нови Сад, предизвикаа остри реакции во Косово. Косовскиот премиер Рамуш Харадинај на Фејсбук напиша дека одлуката е „неприфатлива, без преседан и страшен чин“, […]
US President Donald Trump says he will withdraw the US from an Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran, the BBC reports. Calling it “decaying and rotten”, he said the deal was “an embarrassment” to him “as a citizen”. He said he would reimpose economic sanctions that were waived when the deal was signed in 2015. The […]
Vladimir Putin has been sworn in for another six years as Russian president. Some 5,000 guests attended the lavish ceremony in an ornate Kremlin hall. Putin was inaugurated for his fourth term as president two months after more than 70 percent of voters backed him in a presidential election in which he had no serious […]
