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Macedonian opposition to press criminal charges against PM Gruevski

February 4, 2015February 4, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Macedonia’s largest opposition party LSDM (Macedonian Social Democratic Union) said on February 3 that it would press criminal charges against prime

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UN court: Serbia, Croatia not guilty of genocide

February 3, 2015February 5, 2015 VOANews Croatia, Serbia

The top U.N. court ruled Tuesday that neither Croatia nor Serbia committed genocide during the 1990s Balkan wars, when Croatia

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Europe 

Tsipras: EU mutilated without Greece and Cyprus

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus, Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, speaking in Nicosia on Monday during his first foreign trip as prime minister, said that he

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Another deadly weekend with 22 civilians killed in Donbas

February 1, 2015 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Seven civilians were killed in shelling in Donbas by the afternoon of February 1. A 66-year old woman was killed

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Europe 

Germany’s Merkel rejects demands to cancel more Greek debt

February 1, 2015 VOANews Greece

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who presides over Europe’s largest and strongest economy, has again ruled out debt forgiveness for Greece’s

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Ukraine: At least 14 civilians killed in Donbas as peace talks go nowhere

January 31, 2015 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Donetsk endured two more devastating attacks on January 30, when at least seven residents were killed after a shell hit

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ICTY upholds genocide convictions of Bosnian Serb officials

January 31, 2015 VOANews Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) upheld genocide convictions against two senior Bosnian

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Europe 

Greece says it will not negotiate with bailout creditors

January 31, 2015 VOANews Greece

reece’s new left-wing government was in open dispute Friday with its European bailout creditors, saying it would not negotiate with

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Dracula Park project floated again in Romania

January 30, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romania wants to build a Dracula theme park in Transylvania, the head of the national tourism agency said, reviving an

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