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Over 500 health decision-makers - including ministers of health and finance - from 53 countries have set the WHO European Region on course to tackle both longstanding and new challenges to health systems, at ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- A forum on cross-border co-operation in the Western Balkans begins on Thursday in Skopje.

Trust in the European Union has risen in Turkey by six points since last autumn, with 31% of Turkish respondents in the latest Eurobarometer survey indicating that they "tend to trust" the EU.

UN envoy Matthew Nimetz returns to Athens and Skopje this week to discuss the long-standing dispute over Macedonia's name.

The United Nations mediator in talks between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will head to the region later this week for another round of consultations on the long-running dispute over the ...

A Macedonian journalist jailed on suspicion of murdering at least two women in crimes he wrote about for his newspaper has been found dead in his cell, police said Monday.

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- A journalist from the Utrinski Vesnik daily newspaper was arrested late Friday for at least two murders in the town of Kicevo over the past two months.

Police arrested a Macedonian journalist on suspicion of murdering at least three elderly women, authorities said Saturday.

Foreign and domestic observers credited a heavy police presence for the improvement of the June 15th revote in Macedonia.

Macedonia's possible launching of EU accession talks this year sparked heated debate among European foreign ministers at a meeting Monday in Luxembourg.

A peaceful repeat vote at a dozen polling stations in Macedonia Sunday confirmed the ruling coalition's landslide victory in parliamentary elections that had initially been marred by violence, election officials said.

Held under tight police security, the rerun had not been expected to change the overall result from June 1 elections. But it was meant to determine which of the two main ethnic Albanian parties would be invited to join the governing coalition.

State electoral commission spokesman Zoran Tanevski said the reruns, conducted at stations where violence and irregularities occurred during the earlier vote, showed Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's VMRO party had won 50.42 percent of the vote, with 97 percent of the votes from both rounds counted. The main opposition Social Democrats received 24.43 percent, he said.

Police arrested three people for allegedly stealing 25,000 euros in three months.

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- The June 1st snap elections were the worst in Macedonia's history, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights said in a report published on Monday .

The unruly elections gave Macedonia's reputation another serious blow. [Early parliamentary elections in Macedonia on 1 June were marred by violence, the death of one person, and the suspension of voting at two ...

The State Election Commission announced late Saturday it would nullify results from 193 polling stations after detecting fraud and other irregularities in the violence-marred parliamentary election last Sunday.

The voting was annulled on several grounds, including ballot stuffing, voter intimidation and violence.

'The commission has decided unanimously that a rerun vote will be held at these polling stations (involving) a total of 170,000 voters,' commission chairman Jovan Josifovski told a press conference.

Published: Monday 02 June 2008 07:27 UTC Last updated: Monday 02 June 2008 07:28 UTC Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevsky has claimed victory for his centre-right VMRO-DPME party in Sunday's parliamentary ...

Sunday's elections in Macedonia failed to meet international standards, according to the OSCE/ODIHR observation mission, which added that violence and intimidation undermined efforts for European integration.

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Democratic Party of Albanians leader Menduh Thaci said on Thursday that he plans to leave politics after Sunday's elections to make way for new faces.

Macedonia's parliamentary election did not fully meet international standards but a final verdict will depend on a repeat of voting in several ethnic Albanian areas hit by violence, monitors said on Monday.

Nikola Gruevski, the incumbent prime minister, is also likely to head Macedonia's next government.