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A member of Macedonia’s ruling ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, was shot dead on Thursday in the village of Mala Recica near the western town of Tetovo. Police in Tetovo, western Macedonia,...

At least seven Palestinian men have been killed and scores more injured by Israeli gunfire on the Gaza border, a week after 18 Palestinians were killed at similar demonstrations. The renewed violence came despite a call by...

British and American authorities have been given several chemical analyses of a substance believed to be a novichok nerve agent produced in Russia’s closed Shikhany military facility, a Russian lawyer has told the Guardian. Boris Kuznetsov,...

The Bollywood actor Salman Khan has been given a five-year jail sentence after he was found guilty of poaching two blackbuck antelopes. The case has gripped movie-obsessed India for the past two decades. An Indian court...

Rifat Sait, a former MP from Turkey’s ruling party, is very Turkish and very Balkan at the same time. His family comes from all over the lands that once formed part of the sprawling Ottoman Empire....

Easter has been about dying eggs for as long as I can remember, but in my family  – as well as in many other Serbian families – the holiday has been influenced by changing ideologies and...

Opposition supporters across the country have blocked main roads, cashing in on popular anger over the controversial toll charges on the highway to Kosovo. Albanian opposition parties have rallied supporters to block traffic on roads across...

The UK’s biggest mobile operators have smashed expectations by spending almost £1.4bn in the race to secure spectrum to launch next-generation 5G services. BT-owned EE, Vodafone, O2 and Three have paid close to double what many City...

Artificial intelligence researchers from nearly 30 countries are boycotting a South Korean university over concerns a new lab in partnership with a leading defence company could lead to “killer robots”. More than 50 leading academics signed the...

Mark Zuckerberg has rejected calls for heads to roll at Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying that he takes full responsibility. Speaking after Facebook’s fullest statement yet about the data breach, which the company now says resulted...