Politics

Donald Trump has threatened Kim Jong-un with the same fate as Muammar Gaddafi if the North Korean leader “doesn’t make a deal” on his nuclear weapons programme. The US president issued the threat at the White House when...

Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and its far-right partner, the League, appeared to be on the verge of signing a government deal on Thursday after overcoming outstanding divisive issues. However, they gave no hint over which party...

Prime Minister Edi Rama has accused the opposition of falsifying an alleged conversation, which seemed to suggest the Interior Minister’s brother had close ties to criminals. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has responded to the week-long...

Media organisations and activists signed a joint declaration calling for the EU to take into account the media freedom situation in member states and candidate countries while awarding funds. Media organisations, publishers, NGOs and representatives of...

Bosnian politician and businessman Fahrudin Radoncic was acquitted of obstructing justice by ordering witness-tampering in the trial of drug trafficker Naser Kelmendi in Kosovo. The state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday acquitted the leader of the...

Two German footballers of Turkish heritage posing for photographs with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, have reignited a debate over dual citizenship and national identity in Germany, as the country embarks on a bid to defend...

Serbia, Albania, Romania and Macedonia were among just 32 countries represented at the opening of the United States embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, held against a backdrop of violence as dozens of people died when Israeli...

Plans by Romania’s ruling Social Democrat Party to follow the US President Donald Trump’s lead on Israel and move Romania’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem have sparked turmoil in Romania – and concern in the...

Connectivity among the Western Balkan countries will be the main topic of the EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia on May 17, according to the Montenegrin government’s platform, which BIRN has seen. Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic...

The former director of Malaysia’s anti-corruption office has lodged a complaint against the former prime minister, Najib Razak, alleging he personally blocked an investigation into the $3.2bn 1MDB scandal. Abdul Razak Idris has claimed that Najib, with...