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Albania’s ruling Socialist Party is being criticised for its attempts to make issuing arrest warrants for MPs facing criminal charges much harder. Albania’s ruling Socialist Party has been criticised over a proposal that would oblige the...

The European Greens co-president Ska Keller tells BIRN of her grave concerns for the future of the UNESCO-protected Pirin National Park, after Bulgaria’s government approved plans to expand the ski resort there. The Green/EFA party, the...

The visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to Kosovo on Saturday, following the murder of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, is widely seen by experts in Kosovo as a move by Belgrade to score some political...

Montenegro will hold presidential elections on April 15, after the speaker of parliament officially called the elections on Friday. “I believe that elections will be held in a positive and democratic atmosphere and that we, all...

Written by Hannah Devlin Science correspondent DNA and biomarkers could be used to detect and identify cancers, including five types for which there is currently no screening test. Scientists have made a major advance towards developing a blood...

Bombardment risks inflaming relations with US, which has allied with Kurds against Isis The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia has said Turkish forces have fired about 70 shells at Kurdish villages in the Afrin region of north-western...

Shortly after The Sixth Sense became a global sensation, its director, M Night Shyamalan – hailed on the cover of Newsweek in 2002 as “the next Spielberg” – told an interviewer that, years earlier, he had realised the...

Austria’s new chancellor wants his German counterpart to judge his government “on its deeds” and not on his far-right coalition partner. While both sides stress their closeness, it’s hard to ignore what divides them. Ahead of...

An “amour fou” it is not. Thursday’s meeting between French President Macron and UK Prime Minister May will pit EU fervor against Euroskepticism. How will Brexit affect ties between the two countries? “A Frenchman must be...

Lawmakers are set to vote on measures designed to tackle anti-Semitism in Germany. An anti-Semitism commissioner is a cornerstone of the proposal, but critics insist such a post would be ineffective. Members of Germany’s Bundestag are...