Macedonians plant six million trees today

In Macedonia today, thousands of people volunteered to plant six million trees as part of a reforestation campaign in the Balkan country.Macedonia has experienced many wild fires over the past two years and...

Military drills in north Greece (Aegean Macedonia)

An ordinary people will understand these things that are happening in region as quite an accident. But unfortunately it is not. Everything was started in year 1913, the year that Macedonia was partitioned on 3 pieces, but for now I won’t go in details and I will say that...

Out of hiding, many Kosovars escape Islam to embrace Christianity

"By Fatos Bytyci KLINA, Kosovo (Reuters) - Hundreds of Kosovar Albanians gather on Sundays to attend religious services in a still unfinished red-brick church in the Kosovo town of Klina. Turning away from the majority Muslim faith imposed by the Ottoman Turks centuries ago,...

Indonesia undecided on Kosovo: foreign ministry

""The Indonesian government will follow developments in Kosovo closely and we are not yet in a position to give our recognition to their one-sided independence declaration," foreign ministry spokesman Kristiarto Legowo said."The Indonesian government hopes that the...

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Macedonia wildcats fight for survival (AP)

" LESNICA, Macedonia - It's considered a national symbol, displayed on the back of Macedonia's 5-denar coin. But the Balkan lynx, the largest of European wildcats, is a very rare sight in the southern Balkans these days. Conservationists say only about 100 remain scattered...

Milosevic Found Dead in His Cell

THE HAGUE, March 11 — Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia and architect of a decade of war that took more than 250,000 lives and tore the Balkans apart, was found dead in his prison cell here...

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