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Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have said the Ebola outbreak in the vast central African country has entered “a new phase” after a case of the deadly virus was detected in the north-west city of...

The EU has put itself on a collision course with the US over Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran, as major European firms started to pull out of the country to avoid...

Lachlan Murdoch will serve as chairman and chief executive of the proposed new “Fox” company – a position senior to father Rupert Murdoch – once the deal to sell Fox assets to Walt Disney is approved by shareholders...

The village of Letnica, in the mountains 70 kilometres east of Pristina, near Kosovo’s border with Macedonia, is best known for its whitewashed Catholic church. This is the church where, in 1928, Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu –...

Prime Minister Edi Rama has accused the opposition of falsifying an alleged conversation, which seemed to suggest the Interior Minister’s brother had close ties to criminals. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has responded to the week-long...

Media organisations and activists signed a joint declaration calling for the EU to take into account the media freedom situation in member states and candidate countries while awarding funds. Media organisations, publishers, NGOs and representatives of...

Bosnian politician and businessman Fahrudin Radoncic was acquitted of obstructing justice by ordering witness-tampering in the trial of drug trafficker Naser Kelmendi in Kosovo. The state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday acquitted the leader of the...

Two German footballers of Turkish heritage posing for photographs with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, have reignited a debate over dual citizenship and national identity in Germany, as the country embarks on a bid to defend...

Serbia, Albania, Romania and Macedonia were among just 32 countries represented at the opening of the United States embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, held against a backdrop of violence as dozens of people died when Israeli...

Hate speech and racist rhetoric has been increasing in Croatia, mainly targeting Serbs, LGBT people and Roma, warned the Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. A report published on Tuesday by the Council...