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In a house in southern Kosovo, beneath a portrait of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a two-year-old boy plays with balloons. The boy cannot be named. He was born on July 15, 2016,...

Moldovan President Igor Dodon took some of his Socialist Party MPs on a pilgrimage to Russian monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece. Moldovan pro-Russian President Igor Dodon left on Monday for a new pilgrimage to Orthodox...

A billion dollars is a steep price to pay for a whole lot of nothing – even if the nothing in question happens to be a prime piece of open land with commanding views over the...

Almost 400 Ryanair flights scheduled for Friday have been grounded because of pilot strikes. Employees in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands are staging a 24-hour walkout over pay and conditions. The Irish airline, Europe’s largest by passenger...

The list began spreading from phone to phone on Saturday, just as police were starting to fire teargas and rubber bullets at protesters in Dhaka demonstrating for safer roads. “Please pass these addresses to trusted people...

A federal judge ordered the government to return an asylum-seeking mother and her daughter to the US after the Trump administration revealed in a Thursday court hearing that they had sent the migrants to Central America while the...

The Croatian tourism sector is thriving but seasonal workers on the coast face tough working conditions, exploitative employers and a lack of protection from the authorities, trade unionists say. Croatia has registered a significant increase in...

Hashim Thaci has suggested a referendum on proposals to change borders as part of a deal between Kosovo and Serbia to normalise relations, but analysts pointed out that no law currently exists in Kosovo that would allow such a plebiscite. On...

Romanian expatriates have been travelling to the capital Bucharest from across the country to attend a mass anti-government rally, despite controversies over the lack of an official organiser and authorisation from the municipal administration. Ana Maria...

Dozens of civilians, mostly children, have been killed and others wounded in an airstrike by the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition in Yemen that hit a bus in the rebel-held north of the country. The International Committee of the Red...