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CONSERVATIVES LEAD IN EARLY MACEDONIA ELECTION RESULTS
Electoral boards continue to tolerate photographing the ballot, said Darko Aleksov, head of the civic association Most, which monitors elections with about 3,000 volunteers... READ MORE›
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO 'FACES CIVIL WAR' IF PRESIDENT FAILS TO QUIT
However, the deal was boycotted by Rassemblement, the main opposition coalition, which says it violates the constitution... READ MORE›
PARTY SESSION EXPELS FOUR SENIOR OFFICIALS ON GRAFT CHARGES
Communique after four-day plenum confirms decision on expulsion of four former high-flyers party also vows to tackle corruption in promotions system... READ MORE›
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13 PHOTOS OF THE CHILDREN CAUGHT IN NO-MAN'S-LAND BETWEEN GREECE AND MACEDONIA
These men are heartless, Yousef, a Syrian refugee who gave only his first name, told The Associated Press... READ MORE›
ZHOU YONGKANG EX-SECURITY CHIEF IN CHINA GETS LIFE SENTENCE FOR GRAFT
According to the official Xinhua News Agency, Mr... READ MORE›
MACEDONIA STRUGGLES TO RATION ENTRY OF RAIN-SOAKED REFUGEES
In this Europe, animals are sleeping in beds and we sleep in the rain, said 23-year-old Syrian woman Fatima Hamido after running across the border... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS
For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE›
MIGRANTS STRANDED AS ROUTE NORTH IS NARROWED
IDOMENI, Greece -- There has been a rough triage taking place the last few weeks along the barbed-wire and chain-link fence separating Greece from Macedonia... READ MORE›
POLICE, MIGRANTS CLASH ON MACEDONIA BORDER; SOLDIERS BUILD FENCE
Macedonia, along with other Balkan countries on the migrant route, began turning away economic migrants nearly two weeks ago... READ MORE›
MACEDONIA POLICE FIRE STUN GRENADES AS THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS RUSH BORDER
Thousands of migrants rushed past baton-wielding Macedonian police who were attempting to stop them entering Macedonia from Greece... READ MORE›
MACEDONIA OPENS BORDER WITH GREECE AFTER HUNDREDS OF MIGRANTS RUSH THE LINES
Migrant crisis Macedonia opens border with Greece as hundreds of desperate refugees spark police action after rushing the lines... READ MORE›
MACEDONIAN POLICE FIRE TEAR GAS ON MIGRANTS STORMING GREEK BORDER
There were an estimated 8,000 people gathered at Idomeni, the small frontier community on Greece's border with Macedonia... READ MORE›
HOW MACEDONIA BECAME THE LATEST FRONT IN EUROPE'S MIGRANT CRISIS
While Greece is a member of the European Union, its economic troubles mean it is not a desirable place for migrants to stay long-term... READ MORE›
MIGRANTS CROSS UNHINDERED INTO MACEDONIA; TRAINS, BUSSES AWAIT
Migrants cross unhindered into macedonia trains busses await... READ MORE›
WITH TEAR GAS AND RAZOR WIRE MACEDONIA TRIES TO STEM REFUGEE TIDE
Trying to relieve the pressure on its islands, Greece has begun transporting Syrian refugees by boat to the mainland, from where they head north to Macedonia... READ MORE›
3 PEACEKEEPERS ACCUSED OF RAPE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
United Nations leaders have had to contend with repeated allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation in peacekeeping in recent months, especially in the Central African Republic... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES STUCK ON BORDER AS NEW RULES START
The boat was carrying refugees trying to illegally cross toward Greece and sank in the Aegean Sea near Didim, the news agency reported... READ MORE›
REFUGEES FROM GREECE CAMP CROSS INTO MACEDONIA
Late on Monday, police in Macedonia said they would take steps to return the refugees to Greece... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL TO VISIT CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AMID SCRUTINY OVER PEACEKEEPERS
The peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic has been roiled by a series of sexual abuse allegations including some involving children... READ MORE›
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC HUNDREDS ESCAPE PRISON AMID DAYS OF UNREST
The unrest erupted as the transitional president Catherine Samba-Panza was attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York... READ MORE›
NEW ACCUSATIONS ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC PROMPT INQUIRY
The United Nations said Wednesday that it was investigating new allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by its peacekeepers in the Central African Republic... READ MORE›
FINLAND IS THE MOST SOCIALLY PROGRESSIVE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, NEW STUDY REVEALS
Finland is the most socially progressive country in the world while the war torn Central African Republic is the least progressive, a new study has found... READ MORE›
CONGO POLITICIAN SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS FOR WAR CRIMES
In Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, members of Mr. Bemba's political party, which he still heads, criticized the sentencing on Tuesday... READ MORE›
EBOLA A??UNLIKELYA?? TO BE CAUSE OF BRITONA??S DEATH IN MACEDONIA
Dr Roberta Marshall, Ebola incident lead at Public Health England, said We remain involved in discussions around the death of a British National in Macedonia... READ MORE›
MACEDONIA CLOSES ITS BORDER 'COMPLETELY' TO MIGRANTS
One route would take them from Greece through Albania to the Adriatic coast, from where they would try to reach southern Italy by boat... READ MORE›
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AID GROUPS SEEK BETTER ACCESS TO STRIFE-TORN CAPITAL
Meanwhile the United Nations reported that two of its peacekeepers had been severely wounded as they worked to take down roadblocks that militants had erected... READ MORE›
STRANDED MIGRANTS CLASH WITH POLICE ON GREEK-MACEDONIAN BORDER
At dusk, about 500 migrants blocked the crossing for refugees in protest shouting If we don't cross, no one does! ... READ MORE›
GREEK MIGRATION MINISTER URGED TO RESIGN OVER MACEDONIA BLUNDER
Neighbouring Macedonia lies along the now-closed Balkan migration route used by refugees to travel to central and northern Europe... READ MORE›
MACEDONIA ACTIVISTS DEFIANT AS 'I PROTEST' MARCHES GROW
More than 500 people marched through Skopje on Saturday night, stopping at government buildings to hurl paint balloons as fellow protesters and onlookers cheered in approval... READ MORE›
UN TO INVESTIGATE PEACEKEEPERS REPORTED OF KILLING WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN AFRICA
Human Rights Watch has also documented murders by torture, public executions and beating deaths by Congolese peacekeepers... READ MORE›
MACEDONIA BLOCKS 'MASSIVE' REFUGEE INFLUX AT BORDER WITH GREECE
Macedonia declared a state of emergency Thursday as it ramped up security on its border with Greece, stranding thousands of migrants on a dusty field. The... READ MORE›
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC ATTACK KILLS 8 CIVILIANS AT CAMP FOR DISPLACED PEOPLE
An attack in the Central African Republic by Muslim fighters killed eight civilians in a camp for displaced people, the United Nations said Friday... READ MORE›
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC HUNGER THREATENS POPULATION UN WARNS
People are left with nothing. The agency called for an emergency cash infusion of 41 million from donor countries to deal with the crisis... READ MORE›
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MIGRANTS STOPPED AT SERBIA'S BORDER WITH CROATIA
A deal between Turkey and the European Union, struck in March, has largely shut off the flow of people reaching Greece and the Balkans... READ MORE›
MIGRATION, SECURITY AND EU'S FUTURE TOP AGENDA AT BALKANS SUMMIT
On top of the agenda on Monday is reinforcing security checks of migrants traversing the Balkans toward Western Europe, French officials said... READ MORE›
EU LEADERS TELL BALKAN STATES ACCESSION TALKS TO GO ON DESPITE BREXIT
In Serbia, another aspiring EU member, support for the bloc is less clear-cut... READ MORE›
UN COURT ACQUITS SERBIAN NATIONALIST POLITICIAN SESELJ
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has acquitted Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj on all nine counts that UN prosecutors filed against him in his marathon trial... READ MORE›
PROTESTS AT IDOMENI AS GREECE PLANS TO RELOCATE STRANDED REFUGEES
Compared to the chaotic scenes Idomeni has witnessed recently, one operation to distribute items to refugees on Saturday unfolded in a relatively orderly manner... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA SAYS CLOSURE OF BALKAN ROUTE IS 'PERMANENT'
Austria says closure of Balkan route is 'permanent' 'Welt' newspaper... READ MORE›
10,000 MIGRANTS STRANDED IN SERBIA AS BORDERS CLOSE
That's what's happening now, UNHCR spokesman Melita Sunjic said from the Serbia-Croatia border, where about 2,000 people were forced to wait in a muddy, rain-drenched no-man's land... READ MORE›
CZECH REPUBLIC 'WILL FOLLOW BRITAIN OUT OF EU'
Fears of contagion as Serbia says Brexit fears mean the 'magic' has gone out of joining the European Union... READ MORE›
KOSOVO OPPOSITION CONTINUE TO DISRUPT PARLIAMENT BY FIRING TEAR GAS
Opposition lawmakers set off tear gas in Kosovo's parliament as anti-goverment protest continues... READ MORE›
EUROPE CLAMPS DOWN ON BORDERS, LEAVING MIGRANTS STRANDED
Migrants from Iran gather on railway tracks as they demonstrate in front of Macedonian police while waiting to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near Gevgelija on Nov. 22, 2015... READ MORE›
BACKLOG OF MIGRANTS SWELLS IN THE BALKANS, TEMPERS FRAY
That's what's happening now, UNHCR spokesman Melita Sunjic said from the Serbia-Croatia border, where about 2,000 people were forced to wait in a filthy, muddy no-man's land... READ MORE›
HUNGARY RAISES STEEL GATES TO CLOSE CROSSING FROM CROATIA
Migrant crisis Hungary raises steel gates to close crossing from Croatia... READ MORE›