Serb journalists in Kosovo face death threats, abuse and harassment online if they are perceived to veer too far from official Serbian policy.

Hearings start for one of the most notorious cases in the country’s history, seeking responsibility for the devastating March 16 fire that killed 63 mostly young people. Defendants together with the ...

A study of recent electoral cycles in Romania, Bulgaria and Kosovo shows what can happen when algorithms are allowed to hack democracy. This new ‘TikTokcracy’ must not go unchallenged. In December ...

Authorities in Istanbul seize crypto asset company in Turkey - home to one of the largest cryptocurrency markets - as well as 15 other companies suspected of laundering the assets of criminals. Photo ...

Mayor Erion Veliaj looks on course to continue governing the city from his jail cell – after the Constitutional Court annulled his dismissal and PM Edi Rama said he will not call early elections in ...

Michael Durkee, former adviser to NATO commander Wesley Clark, tells court that Hashim Thaci did not have the authority within the Kosovo Liberation Army to rein in post-war acts of revenge by some ...

If the EU acts decisively, it can orchestrate a peaceful way out of the political crisis in Serbia and avoid a potential repressive end to the mass protest movement. Serbia is trapped in political ...

Bruno Stojic, former defence minister of the unrecognised Croat-led Herzeg-Bosnia wartime statelet, was granted early release by the Hague war crimes tribunal after admitting his guilt and showing ...

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France has joined the list of EU countries that consider sex without explicit consent to be rape. France’s high-profile Pelicot rape trial thrust the question of consent into the spotlight, pushing ...

New rules making it easier to shoot bears roaming in towns and villages follow rise in reports of bear attacks on humans and populated areas. A male brown bear at the courtyard of the Octavian Goga ...

A Greek-Swiss initiative seeks to reopen the historic Peloponnese Railway to boost tourism and generate income for locals – but is the project really practical? “The train passed through my village. I ...