Kulata checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Greek border is closed for all types of vehicles, the official on duty in Blagoevgrad District Police Directorate said. The checkpoint was again closed for all vehicles at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. There is no information when it will be opened.

A member of the team of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said they will say sorry if opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych is officially declared the winner of Ukraine’s presidential elections after votes are recounted at certain polling stations.

The main ethnic Albanian parties in Macedonia have expressly rejected the idea of forming an all-Albanian coalition to stand in opposition to the ruling party of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski.