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After the Bulgarian President’s bridge-building trip to Russia, energy issues are likely to be the main topic at the Prime Minister’s follow-up meeting with Vladimir Putin. After President Rumen Radev paved the way towards improved Bulgarian-Russian relations last week,...

At midnight on June 19, 1999, Nusret Ajdezi was woken up by a loud knocking on his door. Four armed people entered his home in a central Pristina neighbourhood and said that he and his family...

Canadian ex-soldiers who took part in peacekeeping missions in the Balkans in the 1990s are returning for a ‘Battlefield Bike Ride’ tour from Bosnia to Croatia, honouring foreign troops who served there. Wounded Warriors Canada will...

At the recent EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia, the EU again failed to reassure the Western Balkan states which – instead of the hoped-for “enlargement summit” – got only a “connectivity agenda” and controversial and conflicting...

Clean, green, quick and quiet; no wheels, no engines to fail; able to stop quickly and safely and glide off noiselessly on a cushion of air. Magnetic levitation (maglev) was, according to 1980s science shows such...

The Honor 10 is Huawei’s cut-price premium smartphone offering that hopes to go toe-to-toe with iPhones and Samsungs for about one-third less than the average price. Strangely, the Honor 10 is the second Honor phone with...

Two employees of a northern California flight school have been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a student pilot and trying to send him back to China, authorities said. Jonathan McConkey, general manager at IASCO Flight Training, and his...

A top aide to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was on his way to the US on Tuesday, Donald Trump said in a tweet. Another key aide to Kim arrived in Singapore on Monday night, a Japanese...

A hospital consultant who treated the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, for exposure to the military nerve agent novichok did not initially think the two would survive, he has revealed. Staff at Salisbury district hospital have...

Imagine that you’ve just bought a new GPS device for your car. The first time you use it, it works as expected. However, on the second journey, it takes you to an address a few blocks...