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The case of Georgi Markov, the anti-Communist Bulgarian dissident poisoned in London in 1978 by a secret service operative – in a operation reminiscent of the Skripal case – still divides Bulgaria after all these years....

The government says it will summon intelligence chiefs for a grilling before parliament, as concern grows over the sudden detention and expulsion of a number of Turkish teachers. Moldova’s Prime Minister, Pavel Filip, and the Speaker...

NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wasted no time on veiled and ambiguous statements during his visit to Macedonia. His message was blunt. “Either you accept the deal , then you can join NATO, or you reject the...

Probiotics, hailed by some as a cure for all kinds of digestive ailments and recommended by many GPs alongside antibiotics, may not be as universally beneficial for gut health as previously thought. The gut microbiome is the sum...

The US justice department has charged an alleged North Korean spy for helping to perpetrate cyber-attacks against the National Health Service that saw operations cancelled, ambulances diverted and patient records made unavailable following a worldwide hack in 2017...

Russia has come under a sustained barrage of almost universal condemnation as nations lined up at the UN security council in New York to decry its role in the Salisbury chemical weapons attacks. A day after the...

Moldova’s pro-Russian president and local human rights groups are arguing over Thursday’s detention of a number of Turkish nationals, allegedly linked to the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen. Human rights organisations in Moldova, the Center for...

Romanian Justice Minister Tudorel Toader on Thursday named a new chief prosecutor to head the National Anti-Corruption Directorate – after the previous chief, Laura Codruta Kovesi, was sacked in July. Romania’s Justice Minister, Tudorel Toader, on...

Kosovo and Serbia are rushing to an agreement, adjusting borders as the basis for normalizing relations. There is, however, an alternative to adjusting borders. In exchange for Serbia’s recognition of its sovereignty, Kosovo would address the...

Possibly with Ukraine, Macedonia and even Montenegro in mind, the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch has written to the global head of Orthodoxy, saying new countries should not necessarily have their own independent churches. As the battle hots...