The ethnic Greek mayor of the Albanian southern town of Himara has come under harsh criticism after asking Greece not to ratify a key deal seen as a vital step in Albania’s EU bid. According to a memo leaked to the local media, the mayor, Vasil Bollano, who is also …

A leader of a Kosovo opposition party claims he has had success in securing two more recognitions of Kosovo’s independence – from Qatar and the Maldives. Behgjet Pacolli, the head of the Alliance for a New Kosova, said that during his stay in the United States, he was promised by …

Talks between Greece and Macedonia at the UN over the ‘name row’ are practically blocked with no signs of progress, Macedonia’s President Branko Crvenkovski claims. “The stalemate in negotiations means that our integration into NATO and the European Union are also blocked,” Crvenkovski said in an interview with the local …

The European Commission is to send a new technical mission to Bulgaria in January to assess the progress made in addressing irregularities in the management of EU funding. This was announced by Michael Leigh, the Commission’s director general for enlargement, said during a visit to Sofia on Monday.

Croatian authorities withheld for one year information that may have led to an earlier arrest of a fugitive general, now standing trial before a United Nations war crimes court, a newspaper reports. In April 2004, the state’s attorney’s office, the police and secret services all had information that then-fugitive general, …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – War is “no solution” to stop Pakistan-based militants from launching anti-India attacks, India said on Thursday, while Pakistan vowed to act against militants added to a U.N. terrorist list after the Mumbai attacks.

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 46 people and wounded around 100 on Thursday in a crowded restaurant near Iraq’s ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, shattering the calm during a major Muslim holiday, police said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Thursday Pakistan would comply with the U.N. Security Council decision of listing four leaders of an outlawed militant group blamed by India and the U.S. for the Mumbai attacks.

MADRID (Reuters) – Youths in the Spanish cities of Madrid and Barcelona attacked a police station and a bank on Wednesday night following protests over the shooting by Greek police of a teenager in Athens, Spanish police said on Thursday.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek high school students attacked police stations around Athens with stones and firebombs on Thursday, injuring one bystander, in a sixth day of rioting sparked by the shooting of a teenager, police said. “An elderly bystander was taken to hospital after he was hit by a rock,” …