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The visiting Palestinians, due to take in a conference, were instead driven to airport and put on a plane to Turkey.Bulgarian security service agents “entered the hotel rooms of the three deputies early on Friday and drove them to the airport,” Mohd Abuasi, of the Centre for Middle East Studies, …
Read More »European Resolution on Macedonia Faces Delay
The European Parliament rapporteur on Macedonia, Richard Howitt, says he may have to seek postponement of the Parliament’s resolution on the country in the light of the ongoing crisis.Leaving the country, Howitt said that if the Macedonian political crisis continued, he would have no option but to ask the European …
Read More »Leaked US Memo Pans Albania PM
A leaked US State Department memo condemns Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s nationalist rhetoric, calling it a danger to regional stability.The undated memo seems to have been sent to Prime Minister Sali Berisha after Serbia took down a memorial to ethnic Albanian fighters in the southern Serbian town of Presevo in …
Read More »Macedonia Ruling Party Denies Pressure to Delay Poll
Macedonia’s ruling VMRO DPMNE party has rubbished reports that the EU seeks a postponement of the March local elections.Macedonia’s ruling VMRO DPMNE party on Thursday denied that the Director-General of Enlargement at the European Commission, Stefano Sannino, is pushing for local elections to be postponed. “Sanino never asked for a …
Read More »MP Paychecks Trump Most Kosovars’ Earnings
Kosovo parliamentarians earn around eight times the average salary once their generous bonuses are thrown in, data reveal.Kosovo MPs earn an average of 25,000 euro per year, more than eight times the national average, according to Prishtina Insight’s analysis of data released by the Assembly. Members of Parliament also earn …
Read More »Montenegro Coalition Party Appeals Vujanovic Candidacy
The Social Democratic Party, SDP, a minor government partner, says the current head of state, Filip Vujanovic, has no right to run as president and appealed to the Constitutional Court.The SDP on Thursday submitted an appeal to the Constitutional Court, claiming that Vujanovic does not have the right to be …
Read More »Militants attacked Pakistan army leaving at least 35 dead
On February 2, a group of 40 militants attacked the army of Pakistan near the town of Serai Naurang in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest of the country, leaving at least 35 people dead after hours of battle. Around 12 militants, 13 security personnel and 10 civilians have been killed …
Read More »Troops led by French take control of Tessalit in northern Mali
French Defense Minister announced on Friday that forces fighting Islamist rebels seized the town of Tessalit in northern Mali. He said that after air strikes, special forces were parachuted to secure the airport, supported by an armored infantry regiment that moved in on the ground. Canadian forces also took part …
Read More »Bosnia Entity Votes No Confidence in Govt
The new parliamentary majority in Bosnia’s Federation entity has passed a vote of no confidence in the entity’s government.The House of Representatives in the larger of Bosnia’s two entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on February 12 passed a vote of no confidence in the government. The vote was …
Read More »Serbia Mediates in EU-Russia Organ Trafficking Row
Russia has refused to provide evidence for the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo’s prosecution of Albanians in Pristina over illegal organ transplants.Moscow is refusing on political grounds to provide evidence about Russian citizens whose kidneys may have been removed and sold illegally at the Medicus clinic in Kosovo, the Serbian …
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