After Sunday's re-run of the early parliamentary elections, VMRO-DPMNE won 63 MP seats, "Sun" coalition-27, DUI-18, DPA-11 and PEI-1, President of the State Election Commission (SEC) Jovan Josifovski told at Sunday's press conference.
The UN special envoy on name dispute between Macedonia and Greece, Matthew Nimetz, Friday in Skopje will hold talks with Macedonia's top state officials
The US State Department has denounced as absurd the claims in Greek media that the US Consul in Thessaloniki has been involved in ‘anti-Greek’ activities.
Greek FM Dora Bakoyannis told the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that there is no ground for resolving the name issue between Skopje and Athens by July 9.
Macedonia with an average 3.86 rating is ranked 15th in the annual report released by the international non-governmental organisation "Freedom House" on the level of democratic progress in 30 nations in transit from Europe and Central Asia in 2007.
Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski attacked Greece for demonstrating "power" and "arrogance" over the infamous 'name dispute' following a disappointing EU summit for Skopje last week.
The International Steering Group (ISG) for Kosovo meets today in Pristina to discuss the course of implementation of Martti Ahtisaari's proposal and the future steps of the institutions in Kosovo.
NATO's secretary general appealed for restraint between Kosovo's divided ethnic communities, saying Monday that a partition between ethnic Albanian and Serb settlements was "not in the cards."
Pashe Keqi recalls the day nearly sixty years ago when she decided to become a man. She chopped off her long black curls, traded in her dress for her father's baggy trousers, armed herself with a hunting rifle and vowed to forsake marriage, children and sex.
A military attache has told congressional investigators that the American ambassador to Albania endorsed a plan by that country's defense minister to remove evidence of illegal Chinese origins on ammunition being shipped from Albania to Afghanistan by a Miami Beach arms-dealing company.
A championship 44 years in the waiting is worth a special celebration. Spain made sure it didn't disappoint any of its fans Sunday night, both during its 1-0 victory over Germany to win the European Championship, and after it.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he would press Group of Eight (G8) leaders at their summit in Japan next month to tackle the world food crisis, climate change and the flagging fight against global poverty.
