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The Macedonian border police did not allow the entry into the country of the Bulgarian MEP from GERB Andrey Kovachev, the deputy chairman of the EPP, Milen Vrabevski, as well as three other Bulgarians. All of them, as every year on May 6, traveled to participate in the memorial service at the Bulgarian military cemetery in Novo Selo, Strumica.

The Church, in a secular state like North Macedonia, should stay out of women's rights and not interfere in laws that do not concern its own affairs, gender equality activists say.

A well known group of supposedly Greek-based hackers, calling themselves "Powerful Greek Army", has claimed it took down the pages of several banks in North Macedonia on Tuesday evening for a couple of hours.

North Macedonia's Education Ministry on Sunday said it had been a target of a hacking attack over the past few days, but said video footage published on the Twitter account of a hacker group called "Powerful Greek Army", as proof of the hacking, was fake.

Today marks 102 years since the signing of the Neuilly Dictate, or since we were "defeated without being beaten."

North Macedonia's police searched 11 premises in the capital Skopje and in the towns of Veles, Stip, Strumica and Valandovo on Wednesday, arresting six suspected members of a migrant-smuggling group.

Three more suspects are still being sought, police said.

Zaev's ascent to power can be traced to his starring role in lifting the lid on the corruption, meddling and abuse of power that had become widespread in Gruevski's regime, when the Social Democrat leader began feeding intelligence service wiretaps to the media in a series of sensational press conferences in 2015.

This is when attackers secretly alter communications between two sides and steal key information, such as passwords, messages or credit card numbers.

A mother and a daughter from the south-eastern town of Strumica have become the first and so far the only citizens of North Macedonia to face the possibility of up to one year in jail for not abiding by the rules on protection from infectious diseases.

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has cast his ballot in his country's crucial referendum on whether to accept a landmark deal ending a dispute with Greece by changing the country's name to North Macedonia.