Macedonia

The hourglass measures time in a very strange way. Unlike our round watches, or digital timekeepers, it does not treat every sand particle equally. Towards the end it speeds up. Tiny sand particles that are left at the end drop so fast that one wishes to stop it at some point.

An 18-year-old man arrested trying to cross into Greece illegally from Albania was on his way to Syria to join Islamic State fighters, sources told Kathimerini Thursday.

The teenager was arrested on Wednesday and handed over to Albanian authorities Thursday. They told their Greek counterparts that during questioning he revealed he was attempting join jihadists in Syria.

Some ten thousand pupils and students on Thursday demanded the resignation of Macedonia's Education Minister, Abdualaqim Ademi, and a halt to externally controlled state-run graduation exams.

Great Albania threats to tear Balkan apart

Albanian terrorists, members of the UCK attacked Macedonian institutions in the last two weeks in Gosinac, small city near the Albanian border. Many experts stated that these attacks are reprise of the same scenario like the one in Kosovo. One thing is sure: the tensions between Macedonia and Albania are growing.

BELGRADE - Skopje Mayor Koce Trajanovski, who is attending the Capital Summit in Belgrade, has voiced readiness to help Serbia by sharing with it the experience concerning the introduction of building e-permits.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic stated Thursday that timely and efficient police cooperation in fighting cyber crime in Southeast Europe is one of his ministry's priorities.

Macedonian journalists staged protests in the capital Skopje Wednesday evening, following the death threat sent to journalist Borjan Jovanovski, Reuters reported.

OSCE media rep calls on Skopje to investigate threats

VIENNA -- Dunja Mijatovic has called on Macedonia's authorities to immediately investigate the death threat against the NOVA TV editor Borjan Jovanovski and his family.

BELGRADE - The regional countries- Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania should make a joint tourism offer to far-off markets, members of the expert group for tourism of South-East Europe have agreed in a meeting.

BELGRADE - Vice President of the German Business Association in Serbia Bojan Predojevic stated that 88 percent of German companies doing business in Serbia would invest in Serbia again.