The U.N. Security Council requested the secretary-general on Thursday to swiftly deploy an advance team to Libya as a first step to sending monitors to observe an October cease-fire between the country’s warring parties. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recommended in late December that international monitors be deployed to Libya, under a …

Two independent experts say a German company hired to fix the sewage issues of the Montenegrin tourist town of Budva overcharged by millions of euros. More than a decade after the contract was signed, much of the sewage still flows into the sea.

New research demonstrates that it makes no political sense whatsoever for France to block candidate countries in the Western Balkans on their path to EU membership.