Macedonian Police

Macedonian police fired tear gas at crowds of refugees on the Greek border on Friday, to deter them from trying to enter the country. Video footage showed at least several refugees were injured.

The previous day the Macedonian government declared a state of emergency on its southern and northern border following an unprecedented influx of refugees.

Macedonian police on Friday used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse thousands of migrants located in "no man's land" on the country's border with Greece.

The migrants are stranded there and attempting to cross into Macedonia.

The Serbian Foreign Ministry has said it is "not recommending" that Serbians travel via the Gevgelija/Idomeni border crossing between Macedonia and Greece.

This comes as several thousand refugees from the Middle East, stranded at this railroad crossings, on Friday clashed with Macedonian police and soldiers.

Macedonian special police forces have fired stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants stuck on a no-man's land with Greece, a day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency on its borders to deal with a massive influx of migrants heading north to Europe.

The Macedonian police said they have launched a large-scale operation in several towns including the capital aimed at detaining suspected Islamist radicals.

The Macedonian police have arrested a suspect for the murder of Deputy Director of Macedonian Public Revenue Office Argetim Asani.

The police gave the suspects initials, A.K., and said he came from the village of Veleste near the town of Struga. He has been charged with murder and illegal possession of weapons.

Kosovo's parliament is to ccompile a report on all previous knowledge possessed by relevant security institutions relating to the "suspicious movements" of Kosovo citizens in Macedonia.

Media reports have claimed that some of the young men arrested or killed in Kumanovo on May 9th were already being investigated by the Kosovo police.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has told the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, that she should not consider herself a state president since Kosovo "will never be a state", according to well founded reports in the Belgrade media.

Former members and supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, on Tuesday buried the nine Kosovars killed in clashes with the Macedonian police in the town of Kumanovo two weeks ago. 

Close relatives of those killed in the shootout in Kumanovo two weeks ago left for Skopje on Thursday with the head of the Kosovo Forensics Institute, Arsim Gerxhaliu, and a forensics team on a mission to recover the bodies.

"Five automobiles and the caskets have left for Skopje with the families and we will try to identify the bodies together," Gerxhaliu told BIRN.