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After Croatia’s centre-left Social Democratic Party announced elections for its leadership, the name of party veteran Zlatko Komadina has emerged as the only challenger to acting president Zoran Milanovic.

Thousands of Romanians have expressed anger at a decision by the Oslo authorities to take five children away from their Romanian-Norwegian parents over allegations of mistreatment.

State security surveillance reports on Slavko Curuvija were sent for destruction on the day that Slobodan Milosevic was overthrow in 2000, a witness told the trial for the journalist’s murder.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has denied allegations of conducting illegal surveillance after details of charges laid against him by a ministry employee were revealed by a journalists’ association.

A Constitutional Court ruling against an EU-brokered agreement to give Kosovo’s Serbs more political representation may have fuelled support for the country’s opposition, experts said.

US Vice-President Joe Biden told visiting Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski that Skopje must fully implement the deal between government and opposition to end the country's political crisis.

The Bosnian state court confirmed the indictment of three former policemen for involvement in the illegal detention and murders of over 100 Serb civilians in Gorazde during wartime.

Journalists protested that Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic was still in office even though Serbia’s premier promised to remove him last year for making a sexist remark to a female reporter.

Women’s rights campaigners expressed worries that stricter limits could be put on abortions after the Croatian Democratic Union announced it will set up a new ministry for the family and demographics.

Bosnian police said they have arrested six people suspected of having connections with Islamic State militants and seized a large cache of weapons and explosives.

Montenegro announced it will launch a bidding process for a fourth mobile licence, raising questions about whether the tiny Adriatic country really needs another operator.

Aiming to put an end to the problem of illegal logging, Romania has decided to classify the crime as a threat to national security because of its impact on the country's natural resources.

For the first time, the abilities of around 19,000 school teachers in Albania are being assessed in order to find out what skills they lack, although a few have refused to take the test.

Officials in Brussels have urged the Bosnian government to publish the full results of the 2013 census after suggestions that the country could soon submit an application to join the EU.

The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia said it will file criminal charges against Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic because it alleges that he was responsible for bugging its president.

As Serbia and Croatia trade accusations over new weapons purchases, experts warned that provocative media coverage of the row was reviving aggressive rhetoric that could damage relations.

Former military policeman Edhem Zilic was charged with war crimes against civilians in the Konjic area, including the beating and abuse of Croat and Serb detainees.

A Croatian journalist organised a Catholic mass for Yugoslav Communist leader Josip Broz Tito as a ‘social experiment’ after a religious service was held for a WWII fascist leader in Zagreb.

Fuel companies in the country said that further price drops are to be expected during 2016 due to the situation on the international markets.

Albanian hunters are boasting about their kills on social media, much to the alarm of environmental NGO who want the current hunting ban enforced more vigorously.