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Police in North Macedonia say a patrol has discovered 30 migrants in an abandoned truck parked on a local road in the southeast of the country…

SKOPJE, Macedonia — North Macedonia police say a 20-year old migrant from Bangladesh was killed and 12 others injured when a van packed with migrants ...

On social networks, many Macedonians have praised the unknown figures who have removed or destroyed new plaques explaining the 'Hellenic character' of ...

Police in North Macedonia say they have arrested a German national wanted by Interpol for allegedly procuring 700 kilograms of cocaine from an unnamed ...

Young people tend to seek fortunes elsewhere, even as NATO and EU membership promise a better economy.

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North Macedonia's government faces an uphill battle in efforts to re-label public statues of historical figures, as vandals opposing the move have ...

With their boss in jail, some special prosecutors tasked with tackling high-level crime in North Macedonia say the arrest is proof that, now, no one is above the ...

Police in North Macedonia have detained the outgoing special prosecutor in charge of investigating organized-crime cases after she was named as a suspect in ...

Both were once part of Yugoslavia and their very existence is cause for plenty of debate.

Amid a high-profile extortion scandal that has rocked the country, North Macedonia's government is forming an anti-corruption team which it says will help the ...

The skies over Krushevo, North Macedonia were coloured by hundreds of paragliders recently as the area played host to the 16th edition of the FAI World ...

North Macedonia's new president, Stevo Pendarovski, has demanded that officials return from vacation to continue a corruption investigation.

At events in Skopje marking the second anniversary of their friendship treaty, visiting Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov said Sofia would not allow lingering historical ...

In the latest published recordings about the so-called extortion case in North Macedonia, the name of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev features for the first time, with a ...

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A court in North Macedonia has rejected a Serbian extradition request for a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army accused of war crimes.

The so-called 'Extortion' scandal has already cost Katica Janeva her job as chief special prosecutor and is now testing the government's resolve to root out ...

The authorities in Skopje must either get a grip on the rapidly unfolding 'Extortion' affair – or see their reputation for tackling corruption completely shredded.

North Macedonia released former Kosovo Liberation Army member Tomor Morina after the country's Supreme Court decided not to extradite him to Serbia to ...

A video showing two suspected extortionists leaving the home of a wealthy businessman with a bag full of money has added to the woes facing North ...

The prime minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, has used a gay slur while trying to defend his government against corruption accusations, only to quickly ...

Hungary has sent new police contingents to help local forces patrol the borders in North Macedonia and Serbia, the national police said on Wednesday.

In February, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia became North Macedonia, ending a decades-long dispute with neighbouring Greece. Citizens of the ...

A ban on the use of the Vergina Sun in all public spaces in North Macedonia came into effect on Monday, as the neighbouring country implements the conditions ...

After a nudge from the US and EU, long-stalled political talks have resumed about the future of the Special Prosecution, which targets high-level corruption - but ...

Follow-up video recordings uploaded onto YouTube – relating to North Macedonia's so-called extortion scandal – have further implicated chief Special ...

As the investigation into the 'Extortion' cases drags on at what many consider a very slow pace, a key figure in the affair, outgoing SJO head Katica Janeva, has ...

President Pendarovski on Monday told investigators to cut their summer vacations and establish the facts about the unfolding 'Extortion' case – saying the ...

This is the story of what started to grow after the Public team — a social enterprise in Skopje, North Macedonia — participated in the 2018 cycle of u.lab.

Police in North Macedonia say they have detained and plan to deport back to neighboring Greece 79 migrants found hidden in a truck near the two countries' ...

The leader of North Macedonia's biggest opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, said that the party may hold protests and block institutions, even ...

The government in Skopje has come up with an ambitious draft strategy to combat the epidemic of fake news – but many media professionals and experts are ...

In a statement, police said the migrants were discovered in the south of the country by local police and officers from other European countries who are helping ...

The 2019 FAI World Paragliding Championship started today, 7 August 2019, in Krushevo, North Macedonia. The competition will last for nearly two weeks, from ...

Highway Patrolman may be Bruce Springsteen's most moving song. It's the story of the title character Joe Roberts, and his tearaway brother Frankie. Joe loves ...

From left are Rev. Shane Scott, Rev. Dr. Freddie Haynes, Rev. Welton Pleasant and Rev. Dr. Melvin Wade Sr. at the Macedonia Baptist Church Summer Revival ...

During last month, two Russian pranksters known as Vovan and Lexus released an hour-long audio recording of several prank calls with Macedonian Prime ...

The parliament of North Macedonia has passed changes to the law on motor vehicles, introducing voluntary eco stickers to mark vehicles by ecological rating ...

Skopje and Ohrid airports are enjoying record traffic this year with a number of new routes introduced, however, operator TAV Macedonia is doubling its efforts to ...

A semi-truck carrying several vehicles crashed early Friday morning on I-271 in Macedonia.

The Macedonian-Thrace Brewery, known to the public mostly through its Vergina brand, posted a net profit of 2.31 million in 2018, 50 percent higher than in ...

After almost three decades of diplomatic dispute, punctuated by high drama with Greece, a new state called North Macedonia has finally assumed its place on ...

Greece has blocked its northern neighbor from entering into NATO for 27 years because of an argument over which country has a right to the name "Macedonia."

SKOPJE, North Macedonia — In a presidential runoff, voters in North Macedonia on Sunday elected a government-backed candidate who plans to bring the ...

After years of talks and protests, Greece's parliament has backed a landmark deal to rename its neighbour the Republic of North Macedonia. Despite its ...

Since the settlement of a decades-long name dispute, Macedonians continue to face needling from critics of the process that was supposed to clear their path to ...

GOOD NEWS from the Balkans is rare. Even after Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev, the prime ministers of Greece and Macedonia, agreed last June to end a ...

KURBINOVO, North Macedonia — Poised on a forested mountainside high above Lake Prespa, at the intersection of Albania, Greece and North Macedonia, the ...

The world has a newly named country, North Macedonia. And that is good news for regional relations and travelers, who are visiting the southeastern corner of ...

This week, the Balkan nation was formally invited to join the military alliance. A seemingly minor change to its name followed years of confrontation with Greece.

During a visit to North Macedonia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the Western military alliance is "ready to welcome" the Balkan ...

Protestors believe name deal does not do enough to protect Greek Macedonia's territorial and cultural integrity.

After years of acrimony it is the first visit by a Greek PM to neighbouring North Macedonia.

A top U.S. diplomat is visiting North Macedonia to meet with government, civil society, and business leaders, the State Department says. Philip Reeker, the ...

A dispute that divided Balkan neighbors for more than seven decades, over what constitutes “Macedonia,” has finally reached a resolution. The Republic of ...

Turnout in vote regarded as a *fresh* say on country's name change too low to deliver clear result, say officials.

On January 11, 2019, the parliament of North Macedonia approved the constitutional amendments that changed the country's name to Republic of North ...

Macedonian fans at the Handball World Cup, contested in Germany earlier this year, were easily idenitifiable, from the Alexander the Great helmets they wore to ...

In January, Greece ratified an agreement with the newly renamed Republic of North Macedonia. There are some who argue this is the first step towards ...

SKOPJE -- Pope Francis called North Macedonia a “crucible of cultures and ethnic and religious identities” and he encouraged the small Balkan nation to press ...

North Macedonia's bid to join the EU will be discussed by member states at their meeting in Luxembourg later this month, European Commission President ...

Accord over Former Yugoslav Republic highlights crucial role of Greece in region's stability.

The controversial accord to rename Macedonia has caused a great deal of resentment in Greece. But with the issue now officially settled, life in Greece goes on.

For years, North Macedonia had watched from the sidelines as neighbors and former Soviet bloc countries came into the fold of NATO and the European Union.

A political agreement between Greece and its smaller northern neighbour, the Republic of Macedonia, ends a longstanding dispute over the republic's name ...

ENLARGING THE European Union long ago fell out of fashion. No country has joined since Croatia became the 28th member, in 2013. As the leaders of ...

This June 19 story has been refiled to say "Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia", not "the North Macedonian capital Skopje", in para 1 to conform with ...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he will call a confidence vote after his governing coalition split over the Macedonia name change. Defence Minister ...

Macedonians vote in a presidential election on Sunday shaping up as an unofficial referendum on the hotly disputed change of the country's name to North ...

WHAT'S IN a name? On January 25th, after months of negotiations, lawmakers in Greece voted to recognise its northern neighbour Macedonia as “North ...

Macedonian lawmakers have begun a crucial debate on renaming the country North Macedonia in order to resolve a decades-long dispute with neighboring ...

Greece Letter: For decades, Athens denied there was a Macedonian language.

The Prespa Agreement changing the country's name officially settled decades of bitter dispute between Skopje and Athens. But Teri Schultz found domestic ...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize over the improvement of Greek-North Macedonian relations following the ...

OHRID (NORTH MACEDONIA) - I hear midnight revellers from a far shore across Lake Ohrid, popularly pictured as a freshwater "sea" in North Macedonia ...

North Macedonia expects to become a member of NATO by the end of this year and hopes to get a date for the start of European Union (EU) accession talks in ...

Two years after the two countries signed a friendship agreement, a bitter argument over the national identity of an early-20th century revolutionary hero is ...

NATO says it is now ready for North Macedonia. But is North Macedonia ready for the Western security alliance? At the center of a tug-of-war for influence ...

Conservatives critical of Greece's historic 2018 deal with North Macedonia look set to take power on Sunday, but will they really walk away from Prespa?

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov warned EU hopeful North Macedonia on Thursday (20 June) against what he said was “anti-Bulgarian rhetoric” and ...

The prickliest issues emanating from the name change to North Macedonia are cultural and will take time to carry out.

Macedonia's potential name-change could end a decades-long dispute over lanugage, national identity, and history between the country and its southern ...

On 5th May, voters in North Macedonia went to the polls to choose a new president.

In a landmark move, North Macedonia hosted its first ever Gay Pride Parade, with cabinet members and foreign diplomats joining LGBT activists in Skopje.

The North Macedonian capital is set to host on June 29 what activists have described as the Balkan country's first gay-pride parade.

Several thousand protesters from Macedonia's right-wing opposition have marched through the capital, Skopje, to protest against Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's ...

Despite its failure to keep VMRO DPMNE in power – or obstruct NATO membership – the Kremlin remains a 'player' in North Macedonia thanks to its new role as ...

Ratification to normalise ties between the two neighbours and anchor Macedonia within the western sphere of influence.

This summer, Greece and Macedonia—known internationally by its UN designation, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, or FYROM—made headlines ...

North Macedonia is likely to win European Union support to start membership talks later this year, diplomats say, but its Balkan neighbour Albania faces ...

North Macedonia might be born but does it have a national identity?

Albania and North Macedonia have made good progress towards EU membership and Brussels should open accession talks with them, the EU Commission ...

North Macedonia is hosting a major military exercise with five NATO members countries, which are taking part in a series of drills near Skopje.

This story originated in VOA's Macedonian *Service*.SKOPJE, NORTH MACEDONIA — Amid tight security and raucous fanfare, Pope Francis made a historic first ...

FOLLOWING a name change earlier in the year, North Macedonia are targeting a first visit to a major finals.

Historic name-change deal with Greece wipes state of Macedonia off map.

European Council President Donald Tusk has said that the EU should launch accession talks with both North Macedonia and Albania, but warned there will be ...

Macedonia's parliament has voted to start the process of renaming the country North Macedonia, a major step towards ending a decades-long stalemate with ...

As lawmakers in Skopje consider changing the country's name, Flora Jusufi is one of thousands of young Macedonians considering a change of countries.