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Final preparations were made at polling stations in Turkey and candidates held their last rallies Saturday, a day ahead of the country’s second national election in five months. Prime Minister […]
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev and Prime Minister Boiko Borissov sent messages of condolences to their Romanian counterparts on O ...
Turkish voters head to the polls on Sunday November 1 for a second national election in five months, after an inconclusive ballot and failed coalition ...
There will be three days of mourning in Romania after a Halloween concert ended up in tragedy in a nightclub in Bucharest. Twenty-seven people, mostly ...
A fire during a rock concert killed at least 27 people in a nightclub in Bucharest, Romania Friday. Romanian officials say 145 people were taken to hospitals with burns. Initial […]
Bulgarian authorities detained 495 foreign citizens who were in the country illegally, arrested 16 for people-trafficking and have taken actions against 525 people for breaching electoral laws, the Interior Ministry […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was widely expected to take a lead role in campaigning for the AKP, the political party he helped found, ahead of Sunday’s general election, even […]
The President of the Republic of Albania says that he and his family have been put under surveillance by the state’s security structures. Bujar Nishani suggests that representatives of the […]
Outside the Istanbul Military Museum, patriotic music blared from huge speakers on a truck bedecked with Turkey’s national flag. A handful of tourists shuffled into the museum, but few locals […]
Turnout was low, but respectable The official participation rate for Ukraine’s local elections was 46.5 per cent. This may sound low, but was not much lower than the turnout for […]
