Hundreds of firefighters on Monday battled to control a major wildfire in Greece – as the death toll among firefighters from recent blazes rose to five. Firefighters battle a wildfire in the wider ...

Elsewhere, suspected Russian missile crashes in Poland; Hungary sets up agency to recover assets stolen under Orban government; Slovak president calls for more use of Chinese tech on visit to Beijing; ...

New report says number of war-crimes trials continues to decline, while crimes against Serbian civilians and prisoners-of-war are rarely investigated. Since Croatia joined the European Union, the ...

Red Star Belgrade and the Serbian Progressive Party have successive victories in common – and both benefit from a system that consistently reinforces the power of whoever is at the top. Ludogorets ...

Rights organisations in Montenegro welcome law change offering women suffering from painful menstrual cramps two days' paid leave each month.

Amid an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, a massive cull of sheep and goats on Lesvos threatens livelihoods - and a way of life. For generations, dusk fell on the hillside village of Mesotopos, ...

Former guerrilla turned politician Sami Lushtaku is cleared of obstructing justice and intimidating witnesses in his trial for war crimes – of which he was cleared in 2017. This post is also available ...

Fire service pays tribute to two firefighters who died battling a forest blaze on Crete, saying they 'fell heroically in the line of duty'. Α building burns during a wildfire in Oreokastro, near ...

Litter, construction debris and untreated wastewater are conspiring to undermine Albania’s bid to become the next big tourist destination on the Adriatic and Ionian seas. Violeta was unimpressed by ...

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In fact, the first report alleging foreigners were paying to access Bosnian Serb positions in the hills around Sarajevo and take potshots at the city’s residents dates to March 30, 1995, when the ...

EU says Serbian minister's statement justifying ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in 1998-9 is 'inflammatory' – and that such rhetoric 'has no place in Europe'. This post is also available in this language: ...