A  renegade former Macdedonian Orthodox Church, MPC, bishop, Jovan Vraniskovski, has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for embezzlement by a Macedonian court. A court in the town of Veles found Vraniskowski guilty of embezzling 320,000 euros while in charge of three Macedonian dioceses. He was …

The UN General Assembly has elected Bosnia and Herzegovina a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, UNSC, to the delight of local officials. The country’s election is “The biggest achievement of Bosnia and Herzegovina foreign policy since independence in 1992,” boasted the main headline in Friday’s edition of Sarajevo …

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov is paying an official visit to Turkey, media reported. Ivanov will meet today in Ankara with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ivanov today will lay a wreath at the mausoleum of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.