Balkan countries

A Serbian sniper of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was killed while another was captured alive, daily Vatan has reported, while claiming at least five other hit men are currently operating in southeastern Turkey. 

Reports indicate that a sniper of Serbian nationality was captured dead during an operation in southeastern ??rnak's Cizre province on Jan. 29. 

Aleksandar Vucic on Monday said he "hoped that Serbs in Croatia would feel less threatened than is the case now."

The prime minister once again stated that "Serbia wants good relations with Croatia."

At least 39 people, including five children, drowned off Turkey's western coast on Jan. 30, the Turkish Coast Guard said, in the latest tragedy involving migrants in the region.

A patrol was able to save 62 refugees, while one Turkish citizen was detained for his alleged role in organizing the trip.

Albanian officials say the highway that will connect the Adriatic with the Ionian sea is one of the most important regional infrastructural projects that it is putting into effect.

Macedonia's Foreign Ministry told BIRN that the Slovenian initiative, which calls for greater EU support to reinforce the Macedonian border, was a good idea that would relieve pressure on the country, which lies right on the Western Balkan route taken by refugees and migrants.

Austria's decision to limit the number of asylum-seekers crossing its borders is "capitulation of dogmatic thinking to reality and common sense", Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.

Europe cannot accept huge masses of foreigners without setting limits and controls, Orban told public broadcaster Kossulth Radio on Friday, according to hungarytoday.hu.

Ivica Dacic says trilateral meetings of the foreign ministers of Serbia, Italy and Albania should continue "as they are good for regional stability."

The Serbian foreign minister also stressed on Wednesday that "more effort should be made to have joint projects fully implemented."

Serbia reached the final of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship in Belgrade after comfortably beating Greece 13-7 (4-3, 2-0, 4-1, 2-3) on Wednesday.

Serbia, who bid for their consecutive European gold, will in the final play either Montenegro or Hungary, who are meeting tomorrow.

The border between Macedonia and Serbia in the south is crossed every day by about 2,500 migrants and refugees.

It takes them several hours or at most a day to then arrive to Serbia's northwestern border with Croatia.

National and local budgets, EU funding, and private investment worth BGN 23.5 M is to be put aside for flood prevention in Bulgaria's Black Sea region, the Environment Ministry has announced.

The money sill be sought for the period of 2016-2021.