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Melania Trump’s spokeswoman has said the first lady “hates to see children separated from their families”, in a rare public statement at odds with her husband’s policy of separating children from their parents at the Mexicoborder. Stephanie...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that journalist Stefan Cvetkovic, who went missing earlier this week, has been found “alive and well”, and appeared not to have been kidnapped. President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that Cvetkovic...

The Yugoslav People’s Army was used to achieve the Serbian leadership’s nationalist goals during the 1990s wars in Bosnia and Croatia, according to a report from the Humanitarian Law Centre watchdog group. The Humanitarian Law Centre...

Monuments erected in the Macedonian capital under the Skopje 2014 project – often depicting figures from Classical Antiquity that angered Greece – are to get new inscriptions honouring Greek-Macedonian friendship. Huge statues erected in recent years...

Zdravko Mamic, the former chief of Dinamo Zagreb, who was convicted of fraud by a Croatian court, has refused to extradite himself voluntarily from Bosnia. Former Croatian football club boss Zdravko Mamic, who has been convicted...

McDonald’s will end the use of plastic straws in its British restaurants next year, after nearly half a million people called on the company to ditch them. The decision by the US fast-food chain to switch...

Donald Trump has announced a 25% tariff on $50bn of Chinese goods, triggering a promise of immediate retaliation from China. The move, after a long war of words, increases the possibility of a full trade war between...

Angela Merkel has stood firm against unilateral moves to turn refugees back from Germany’s borders despite a tense dispute on migration policy between the chancellor and her interior minister that could yet bring down the fledgling government....

  Paul Manafort, formerly Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, was taken into custody on Friday after a federal judge determined he had violated the terms of his bail as he awaits trial on multiple federal felony charges....

Snapchat users will be able to use their account on the messaging service to log in to other apps, export their bitmoji and post information from elsewhere direct in the Snapchat app, as the company makes its most...