New election likely as political parties fail to agree on electing a president and protesters keep up pressure for adoption of law curbing powers of Kosovo Specialist Chambers, following its ...

Amid a major turnout fall, Milorad Dodik’s Serb nationalist party secured its dominant role in Republika Srpska while Croat candidate Darijana Filipovic looks set to become the new member of Bosnia ...

Lawyers for one of 14 people targeted by Pegasus spyware file criminal complaint against Serbian intelligence agency officials, police and the Israeli company behind the surveillance technology after ...

Norwegian aid worker Tommy Olsen says his trial in Greece is about discouraging others from ever coming to the aid of refugees and migrants reaching Europe’s shores.

Plavsic, who died this week, was the only high-ranking woman political leader prosecuted for mass atrocities by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal. She expressed sorrow for these acts in court – but ...

Siegfried Muresan's failure to secure parliamentary backing in a vote extends Romania’s political deadlock into a fifth month.

Security expert Arjan Dyrmishi tells BIRN the “whole system of intelligence governance” has been brought into question by the arrest of the head of Albania’s State Intelligence Service. The arrest of ...

Studies show that an increasing number of young people are being diagnosed with certain types of cancer in European countries.

Kosovo's prime minister presses opposition to agree on a new head of state before October 6 deadline triggers fresh parliamentary polls.

Enes Baralic, co-inventor of the ‘Sarafix’, an innovative tool used to save countless limbs from amputation during the Bosnian war, has died aged 84.

Wartime vice-president of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity, the only woman ever convicted of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal, dies in Belgrade – to the end maintaining she had 'done nothing wrong'.