Macedonia, Greece News

SKOPJE, Macedonia : A key opposition figure in Macedonia has been released on bail a day after being arrested and charged in a corruption probe.

With Athens and Skopje in sharp disagreement over claims of a Macedonian minority in Greece, more than 6,000 refugees from the Greek civil war gathered to commemorate their exodus and to press for rights.

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has written to European Commission President Manuel Barroso regarding the recognition of the Macedonian minority in Greece, local media reported on Sunday .

Greece is set to start a project later this year to map noise pollution levels in Athens and Thessaloniki, more than a year after a deadline set by the World Health Organization.

Greece's border authorities refused to allow a group of Macedonian journalists to enter the country on Saturday , Macedonian media reported.

The re-emergence of the so-called Aegean question, which the Macedonian government now insists on discussing with Greece, has raised anger in Athens and hopes among refugee children.

SKOPJE, Macedonia : Macedonian authorities launched a murder probe Friday into the prison death of a newspaper reporter who had been accused of slaying women and covering the killings for his newspaper.

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- The opposition Social Democratic Union of Macedonia , the Liberal Democratic Party, the New Social Democratic Party and the New Alternative party, all members of the Sun coalition, walked ...

This year marks the 45th staging of the Galicnik Wedding Festival in a village southwest of Skopje.

Macedonian state institutions have regained the trust of the Macedonian refugees, stirring their hopes they will be able to take back the lost properties and the land from which they were expelled during the ...

Skopje, : A Macedonian court sentenced on Friday seventeen ethnic Albanians for terrorism, police spokesman Ivo Kotevski told media, but but did not give any names.

The recent letter of FYROMs Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to Greek Premier K. Karamanlis constitutes another major hurdle to the effort of finding a mutually acceptable solution to the name dispute.

Freed by The Hague tribunal, former Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski received a hero's welcome in Skopje.

UN mediator Matthew Nimetz meets today with Greek negotiator Adamantios Vassilakis for a new round of consultations on name dispute between Macedonia and Greece.

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Seventeen ethnic Albanians received a total of 192 years in jail sentences on Friday on charges of terrorism.

ATHENS, Greece : A passenger train with hundreds of people on board collided with a cargo train in central Greece early Monday, injuring 15 people, most of them lightly, authorities said.

One person died while two were seriously injured when a tree branch fell on them in the EXIT festival camp.

Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevksi submitted a proposal of a new government to the country's parliament on Saturday, news reaching here from Skopje reported.

Cape Coral residents can now celebrate with an 'OPA!' for the newest - and only - Greek restaurant in the city.

SKOPJE, Macedonia : A Macedonian court on Friday jailed two men over a gunfire attack on an ethnic Albanian party leader during violence ahead of last month's national elections.