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Serbia's pro-government tabloid, Informer, well known for making savage attacks on critics of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, on Wednesday evening on its portal accused the editor-in-chief of the politically liberal daily Danas, Dragoljub Petrovic, of being a "fascist".

Serbia's notorious pro-government tabloid, Informer, on Monday - under the front-page headline reading, "America and the EU paying liars and racketeers" - accused the investigative media organizations KRIK, CINS and BIRN, as well as the daily Kurir, of being financed by Western countries to destabilise the country.

The Musical Copyright Society of Macedonia, ZAMP, which represents some 6,000 musicians in the country, has issued a ban on broadcasting music by its members in protest against what it says is the culture ministry's continual attempts to cut songwriters' and performers' earnings and install a parallel association under government control.

BELGRADE - Kosovo has granted the rights to search for coal over one-third of its territory to a company linked to retired US General Wesley Clark, an investigation by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) partner the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) has found.

Balkan governments need to support efforts to properly measure the scale of radicalisation and violent Islamic extremism and implement comprehensive strategies to tackle the issue, regional experts have warned.

The European Parliament has expressed concern about a culture of self-censorship among journalists in Albania in its draft resolution on the country's progress in 2015.

Serbia's pro-government tabloid Informer on Thursday accused KRIK journalist Stevan Dojcinovic of planning to publish a false article about Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, alleging he had concealed ownership of millions-worth of assets.

Officials estimate that dozens of Bulgarian women - the vast majority of them from the Roma minority - are known to have sold their babies to couples in Greece desperate for a child of their own, reads an article posted on EUobserver website on Tuesday.

Albania will impose a 10-year moratorium from January 2016 that will ban logging in all forests and the export of timber.

The draft law prepared by the environmental ministry is likely to be approved by parliament in December and will allow only municipality representatives to cut down trees to meet the needs of people who burn wood for winter fuel.

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