Prilep

Yesterday, a 57-year-old driver fatally hit a 6-year-old child on the road in the area of the village of Prilep, Burgas region. In the subsequent massacre, the relatives of the victim lynched the driver. Tsvetelina Randeva, spokeswoman for the regional police in Burgas, announced the incident. The police who arrived at the scene of the accident only registered the death of the driver.

After a protest by archaeologists in Skopje on Monday, MPs shelved a controversial legal change that would have bypassed any state decision-making over any archaeological finds along the routes of new highways that are due to be built.

Code orange for dangerously hot weather has been issued for 9 districts in Bulgaria for August 9.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev supported the initiative "Send a Bulgarian book to Macedonia" by donating novels by the famous Bulgarian writer, Dimitar Talev, who was born in the city of Prilep (today in Republic of North Macedonia).

The right-wing VMRO DPMNE party of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday in elections for 81 mayors and municipal councils, completely losing its former dominant position in local government.

Macedonia's ruling Social Democrats, SDSM, celebrated a convincing victory Sunday night during the first round of local elections, widely regarded as a key test of the new government's popularity.

Macedonia's election campaign formally started on Monday and over the next 20 days the parties will be holding rallies and round tables and trying to visit as many places as they can.

Four people were killed when the heavy storm hit Tetovo and nearby mountain villages on Monday afternoon, the police confirmed early Tuesday.

The victims were identified only as 'A.I.' aged seven, 'H.F.' aged 83, 'A.M.' aged 14 and 'R.A.' aged 15.

A six-year-old girl from the village of Shipkovica is also listed as missing.

A photoreporter and a police officer have been injured in Wednesday's protests in Macedonian capital Skopje as demonstrators gathered for a second night to demand that the government stepped down.

Wednesday's gathering in front of the Macedonian Parliament was more peaceful that the previous one, which on Tuesday evening left dozens wounded.

Transparency International – Macedonia said it was filing criminal charges against the ruling VMRO DPMNE party and its junior government partner, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI.