Skopje

Migrants in Idomeni, Greece, on the border with Macedonia, have once again blocked the railroad tracks, Skopje-based media have reported.

According to the reports quoted on Tuesday by the Beta agency, the migrants blocked the tracks again yesterday, shortly after the Greek police moved in to clear it up after 30 days of blockade.

Two police officers were left injured in the third successive evening of demonstrations in Macedonia's capital Skopje that began over a controversial amnesty decision by the country's President.

Macedonian head of state Gjorge Ivanov on Tuesday halted all proceedings against politicians over the wiretapping scandal that rocked the country last year.

A Greek military airplane entered Macedonia's airspace at 10:30 CET on Thursday, Skopje-based TV Telma has reported.

The media outlet identified the plane as "a Phantom" - i.e., an F-4 - adding it flew about one kilometer into the Macedonian space.

Macedonia's junior ruling party, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, says the main ethnic Macedonian parties should stop arguing and prevaricating and erect long-promised monuments to Albanian figures as part of the government-funded Skopje 2014 revamp.

A court in Skopje has sentenced six radical Islamist recruiters and fighters to jail terms of between 5-1/2 to 7 years, Macedonian news agency MIA reported on Friday.

The six entered a plea bargain with the prosecutors.

In a closed session on Wednesday, Macedonia's Constitutional Court approved the annulling of a provision in the law which had previously barred the president from pardoning alleged election-riggers. 

A court in Skopje extended the detention of former Kosovo guerrilla Gafurr Dugolli, who was arrested by Macedonian police over Serbian allegations that he committed war crimes.

The Skopje criminal Court has directed six terror suspects who have indicated willingness to plead guilty to charges to settle their sentences with the prosecution.

The court said it would then hold an additional session to determine whether to accept or discard the charges by the prosecution, which may or may not result in trial.

In a "guerilla" action, street artists in Macedonia's capital have put up a statue of a giant anti-depressant pill, inspired by data showing that huge numbers of people in the country take anti-stress pills.

Boskoski, who has spent five years in jail for the illegal financing of his political campaign, became eligible for early release from Tuesday on the basis of good behaviour. 

But it remained unclear if he would get out of jail on time to join the campaign for the pre-term parliamentary elections on June 5, as his release depends on the prison governor's approval.