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The agreement between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to resolve the name dispute has sparked intense debates, not only in Athens and Skopje, but also in other countries of the European Union.

A new report, Digital News Report 2018, a comparative study of news consumption in 37 countries, 25 in Europe, says the media in the Balkan countries it studied face political pressures, are sharply polarised and generally lack public trust.

Bulgaria: battlefield between Russia and West

As a nation, we talk a lot and have an opinion about everything. But the issue of domestic violence is rarely the subject of public debate. It is highlighted by the media when there is an incident - like the one on Leros this week - and then it falls by the wayside when it is no longer newsworthy. But does it really lose its newsworthiness?

A Turkish misdemeanors court on Tuesday rejected for the third time an appeal to release from pre-trial detention two Greek soldiers who were arrested after accidentally straying into Turkish territory in early March, during a regular border patrol.

European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas on Monday denied reports that the EU's executive body wants any deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on the name dispute with Greece to be approved in the Greek Parliament with 180 votes.

"We do not dictate terms and conditions," Schinas was quoted as saying.

Myanmar's president announced on April 17 pardons for more than 8,500 prisoners, including three dozen jailed in political cases, as part of an annual amnesty marking the country's traditional new year.

Virgil van Dijk has lived up to his billing as the world's most expensive defender in his short Liverpool career, but shutting out a desperate Manchester City in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final today will be his biggest test yet.

A group that has been involved in property fraud has been busted, Nova TV reported. This was made clear at a joint press conference of the director of GDBOP Chiefs Commissioner Ivaylo Spiridonov and the administrative head of the Specialized Prosecutor's Office Ivan Geshev.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias was holding talks with his counterpart in Skopje, Nikola Dimitrov, in a meeting on Friday that was scheduled to last one hour but is expected to take longer as the two officials discuss a set of proposals for settling an ongoing dispute over the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

The Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria, AEJ, has launched a campaign to grant symbolic press badges to 95 jailed Turkish reporters in time for the planned EU-Turkey summit in Varna on 26 March.