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Thick fog causes 19-car pileup in Macedonia (PHOTOS)

SKOPJE -- Nine people have been injured in a traffic accident near the Macedonian capital of Skopje.

A total of 19 vehicles were involved in the pileup.

The accident took place as the Skopje ring road was shrouded in thick fog.

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Thousands of students, university professors and others supporters said "No" on Wednesday to a government plan for state-supervised tests graduates, in what was arguably the biggest student protest to take place in Macedonia in two-and-a-half decades of independence.

Explosions near police stations in Macedonia

SKOPJE -- The Macedonian Interior Ministry has confirmed that two explosions occurred near police stations in the towns of Tetovo and Kumanovo.

Nobody was injured in the incidents that took place on Tuesday evening.

This is the first debate in the Balkan Forum series supported by the European Fund for the Balkans and produced in cooperation between Europarl TV from Brussels and NOVATV from Skopje.

The debate hosts MEPs Ivo Weigel, Edward Kukan and Miltijadis Kirkos, and professor and director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria Florian Bieber.

Macedonia's cabinet has put forward a proposal for a new state emblem set to replace the one Skopje has had for the past twenty-two years.

The fierce-looking red lion against the background of a golden shield and a crown should "restore the country's historic symbols," MINA news agency reports.

"Macedonian president was dead before plane crashed"

SKOPJE -- A draft report about the 2004 plane crash in which Macedonian President Boris Trajkoviski lost his life states the victims were dead before the aircraft fell.

The draft was handed to the Macedonian authorities by Omer Kulic, who chairs an international commission that investigated the crash.

BELGRADE - The Healing (Isceljenje), a debut film by director Ivan Jovic and screenwriter Monja Jovic, has won the Golden Sun award for the best Balkan film at the 13th European Film Festival in Skopje.

The film produced by Cinnamon production was awarded by a jury comprising Nick Holdsworth, Paolo Maria Spina and Nana Jorjadze.

An interview of Novinite.com with Jordan Kamchev, a Macedonian businessman , on the challenges ahead of Macedonia and its relations with Bulgaria.

Macedonian Justice Minister Adnan Jashari said that Brussels' call for Skopje to not rush into its plan to establish a tax haven will postpone but not stop the government-backed package of constitutional reforms.

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SKOPJE - A very small number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) returned to the southern Serbian province in the past 15 years, Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric warned during the two-day regional conference in Skopje.