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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

With one of the highest rates of overweight or obese people in Europe, Czechia has a long way to go in promoting a healthier lifestyle and a better awareness about the dangers of those extra few or ...

As the country’s biggest ethnic Albanian party, long used to power, was relegated to opposition benches, fears grew that it was stirring up ethnic tension in a bid to regain its lost status. This post ...

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

The Western Balkan countries remain important corridors in Europe for drug and human trafficking and migrant smuggling, says the 2025 Organised Crime Index, produced by an anti-graft NGO. Tough ...

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 ...

A bilingual Serbian and Arabic speaker went from translating for migrants and refugees to smuggling them over borders and taking down rivals with the help of police officers on his payroll. This post ...

Veterans of the Dutch UN peacekeeping battalion deployed in Srebrenica remember how they were left powerless to prevent the genocide of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 - and how the ...