News archive of February 2018

Several thousand Macedonians have taken to the streets in the capital, Skopje, to protest against a possible change of their country's name, as required by Greece to end a long-running dispute.

Former Bosnian Army and Croatian Defence Council troops called on MPs to respond to their demands for benefits for unemployed veterans and a proper unified register of those who fought in the 1992-95 war.

Online education used to be seen as something distant and borderline science fiction, but it's a very real element of our society nowadays. Various institutions are offering accredited programs in different fields, and the number is on the rise. At the same time, students have started to pay more and more attention to this type of education due to its inherent benefits.

The first of the three technical committees formed of senior Turkish and U.S. officials, aiming to address the many disagreements between the two countries, will meet on March 8-9 in Washington, the Turkish authorities stated on Feb. 27.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that a raft of vicious actions and manipulation attempts have been unleashed lately to dent the credibility of the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) and subordinate justice, stressing that this is inadmissible.

FYROM (Macedonia) is looking at four options to settle a decades-long dispute with Greece over its name, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

The small ex-Yugoslav republic and its southern neighbor Greece have agreed to step up negotiations this year to resolve the dispute, which has frustrated Skopje's ambition to join NATO and the European Union.

Greece on Wednesday moved to ease capital restrictions imposed since the summer of 2015, raising the monthly limit of cash that can be withdrawn from bank accounts by 28 percent.

Athens first imposed capital controls in July 2015 to stem a flight of cash from its banks at the height of a debt crisis which led to its third financial bailout since 2010.

Former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has turned down an offer to be made an Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo - after the Bosnian capital rescinded an earlier decision to award the Turkish Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk.

An Istanbul prosecutor has sought aggravated life sentences for three ranking soldiers in a case into the raid on the Doğan Media Center in Istanbul on the night of the 2016 failed coup attempt. 

Appeals against Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic's 40-year prison sentence will be heard before judges at a UN tribunal at The Hague in April.

The president of the UN war crimes tribunal, Theodor Meron, said on February 27 that the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals will hear "the appeals in the case" on April 23 and 24.