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After a tight victory in the presidential race in Podgorica, Montenegro’s leader, Milo Djukanovic, faces yet another test in the city’s local elections on May 27. Still awaiting the final results of the Sunday’s presidential election,...

How does this work? The board of a FTSE 100 company launches an inquiry into allegations of “personal misconduct” against its chief executive. It goes to great lengths to show it is doing things by the...

The Philippines is to deploy hundreds of riot police to the holiday island Boracay to keep out tourists and head off potential protests ahead of its six-month closure to visitors. Rodrigo Duterte has described the tiny central island...

Chemical weapons experts will arrive in Douma on Wednesday to investigate an alleged poison gas attack, Russia said, as the US voiced fears Moscow may already have “tampered with” evidence at the site. Russia and the...

The gap between the rich and the poor has been widening in most countries. Economists are analyzing the potential consequences, among them pundits at the IMF which is holding its spring meeting in Washington this week....

  Russia has been accused of consistently obstructing efforts to investigate alleged chemical weapons attacks, including in Syria. But at an emergency meeting of the global chemical weapons watchdog, Moscow fired back. The Organization for the...

As the Serbian Church marks its first 800 years, it is time that this important national institution rethought its policies and became more charitable and tolerant. The Serbian Orthodox Church, the only institution in Serbia that...

Like many other women in Moldova, 30-year-old Mariana is finding it hard to find a decent job despite her high level of education. Her prospects are even difficult as she has a child, and most companies are...

Bosnians gathered in the villages of Ahmici and Trusina to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the war crimes committed there against Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats. We have two obligations to these innocent victims. One is to...

At 85 – and given the powerful emotions of the moment – it would not have been surprising if Aviva Bar-On’s voice had wavered. But as she sang in clear tones in front of an audience...