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A vineyard owner in Bosnia and Herzegovina is selling bottles of wine labelled with a picture of Croatian WWII-era fascist Ustasa leader Ante Pavelic. A wine producer in Siroki Brijeg, a city with a majority Croat...

Organisations representing people with disabilities have urged Croatia to do more to speed up the process of moving disabled people out of institutions – amid concern that progress in this field is stagnating. Several disabled people’s...

The IMF has cut its global economic forecast for 2018 and 2019, citing above all rising import tariffs between the US and China. A fall in trade volumes and manufacturing orders could hit Germany particularly hard....

Jakarta has asked international rescue groups to cease their work on earthquake-ravaged Sulawesi island. Foreigner workers had complained of a lack of access to the affected sites and confusing instructions. The government of Indonesia on Tuesday...

Australia is considering measures to stop some new migrants settling in bigger cities, instead directing them to less populated areas. Canberra is looking for ways to ease congestion in places like Sydney and Melbourne. The Australian...

Thousands of Bulgarians staged commemorations on Monday evening, with the largest crowds turning out in Victoria Marinova’s hometown of Ruse, where she was brutally assaulted and murdered in broad daylight on Saturday. Some of the people...

With the required majority for such changes in parliament still in the balance, Macedonia’s government has launched the legal procedure for adoption of the historic ‘name’ agreement with Greece. At an extraordinary session on Monday, Macedonia’s...

About 5,000 people are still missing, feared death, after an earthquake and tsunami hit Sulawesi just over a week ago. The official death toll stands at 1,944 but officials believe that when casualties from two of...

The main political parties in Bosnia rushed to declare victory on Sunday night in Bosnia’s eighth post-war general election – although the Central Election Commission cautioned that it was far too early to confirm such claims....

Bulgarian police confirmed on Sunday that Victoria Marinova, TV host and administrative director of the local TVN, has been killed – after reportedly being raped and then strangled. Victoria Marinova, the 30-year-old TV host and administrative...