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Thorny Evidence

Man makes a phone call with a smartphone (illustration). Photo: EPA-EFE/YAHYA ARHAB

In February 2021, an operation by French and Dutch police cracked the code to the Sky ECC app, allowing investigators to scoop up a wealth of evidence against a range of organized crime groups across the world. Among them were many criminal groups in the Balkans as well.

Digital Fallout of June Prides: Unveiling Violations of Digital Rights

In June, Pride Parades were held, among others, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, and Croatia, highlighting the struggle for LGBT rights in these countries.

Bulgaria's Chief Public Prosecutor Ivan Geshev (C) before the meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council in Sofia, Bulgaria, 8 June 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV

(L-R) The flags of Finland, NATO and Sweden are seen during the NATO Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bucharest, Romania, 29 November 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/Robert Ghement

"The Swedish government fully understands that the Islamophobic acts committed by individuals at demonstrations in Sweden can be offensive to Muslims," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

In the midst of Russia's failed mutiny, Dodik - one of the few politicians in the world who in past years has met Putin regularly, almost every year - may have tried to draw the Kremlin to support his two-decade-long separatist dream, some officials have said. 

Holding Out

General view of the CHP's headquarters with poster of the Turkish presidential candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu (cente), leader of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), in Ankara, Turkey, 28 May 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

A memorial ceremony at a monument to Holodomor victims in Kyiv, November 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO.

Croatian MPs unanimously voted on Wednesday to adopt a declaration recognising the Holodomor of 1932-33 as a crime of genocide committed by the Soviet authorities against the Ukrainian people.

A man selling Turkish flag in Istanbul, Turkey, August 2018. Photo: EPA-EFE/SEDAT SUNA

The ECHR said in its ruling that the requirement "did not serve any pressing social need, was not proportionate to the legitimate aims pursued and was not justified on sufficient and relevant grounds".

Turkish soldiers stand guard in front of the Silivri Prison in Istanbul, where many journalists and political prisoners are held. Photo: EPA-EFE/TOLGA BOZOGLU

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis (C) greets supporters after the announcement of the first results in the general elections, at the party's HQ in Athens, 25 June 2023. Photo EPA-EFE/ALEXANDROS VLACHOS

"We have a strong mandate and a parliamentary majority and our government will be a government of hard work and practical results," Mitsotakis said.