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The boys gather around a portrait of Saman Kunan, who died in the rescue attempt. Their expressions show a deep recognition of the overwhelming spirit of altruism that saved them. Where are the fists raised in...

France’s young, World Cup-winning football team have staged a victorious home-coming parade in an open-top bus down the Champs Élysées as hundreds of thousands of supporters wrapped in flags cheered them on. The 4-2 win over Croatia in...

Thousands of Croat gathered on Monday at the main square in Zagreb to celebrate the greatest success in the entire history of Croatian football. Croats laid on a spectacular welcome-home party for the Croatian national team...

The Serbian Orthodox Church’s plan to hold a mass for the killed leader of the World War II Chetnik movement, Draza Mihailovic, has been called a “provocation” by the Montenegrin authorities. The government in Podgorica has...

Kosovo’s Appeals Court rejected an appeal from the defence of former reservist Darko Tasic, upholding his indictment for committing war crimes in the village of Krusha e Vogel/ Mala Krusa in March 1999. Kosovo’s Appeals Court...

Turkey on Sunday marked the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016 with receptions across the Balkans, including photography and art shows as well as religious ceremonies, marches and several sporting events. The embassy in Sarajevo,...

Britain’s former trade commissioner in Brussels, Lord Mandelson, is making common cause with hardline, anti-EU Tories, saying Theresa May’s latest Brexit blueprint would lead to “national humiliation” and leave the country in a worse position than if it...

There was a collective puffing of cheeks by England’s players at the final whistle as realisation dawned that it was over. They ended up victims of Belgium’s best-ever World Cup showing, beaten by a team who will be...

Berlin is under increasing pressure to pull the plug on Nord Stream 2, the planned gas pipeline that would link Russia and Germany below the Baltic Sea. Here is what you need to know about the...

Nigel Farage says the British government blocked any contact between him and Donald Trump during the president’s visit. But a face-to-face meeting wasn’t necessary. Mark Hallam says they did their damage via the press. Thursday nights...