Skopje, Macedonia News

Heavy snowfall continued over the weekend in the Balkans, claiming more victims, blocking traffic and exacerbating problems in areas already cut off by the extremely cold weather.

Macedonia's PM Nikola Gruevski and ministers of health and education - Nikola Todorov and Pance Kralev - put into service on Sunday two new laboratories at the Institute of Occupational Health in Skopje.The goal of the labs is to improve conditions for toxicological and... Macedonia's PM Nikola Gruevski and ministers of health and education - ... (more)

One of the region's Euro MPs has revealed how he feared he was going to die when the plane he was on was forced to make an emergency landing in Macedonia.

DNEVNIK The daily looks at the recent relations between United Kingdom and Macedonia.

GV Author Filip Stojanovski posts pictures of Skopje's snowy and icy streets and reports on his blog: "[] the pavements and the side streets in the municipality of Centar remain icy.

The United Nations mediator in the "name" dispute between Macedonia and Greece, Matthew Nimetz, is to visit both countries this month to examine their commitment to solving the long-standing issue.

The city-owned "Skopje Breathing" online system, which informed residents of air pollution levels, stopped functioning in early January 2011.

In this photo Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 photo people stand next to a natural ice sculpture that was formed after the wind blew waves over the boardwalk of Lake Geneva at the Port of Choiseul in Versoix near Geneva, Switzerland.

Macedonia is going ahead with two major infrastructure projects this year despite European ecologist groups' warnings that construction could devastate local species.

After the government on Friday said it had chosen a baroque facade for its HQ, architect Petar Mulickovski said he had turned down an invitation to be an advisor to the project.

The FYR Macedonia's Civil Aviation Agency has confirmed that Turkish Airlines has been given the status of a "regular carrier", thus granting it numerous privileges over other airlines operating to the country.

Greece is being "irrational" in opposing Macedonia's bid to join NATO because it objects to the country's name, the Balkan nation's foreign minister says.

Environmental activists in Skopje are urging the city to put back on line a web page allowed people to check air pollution levels in the capital.

Moreover, we expect the political stalemate between the two countries to continue.

Many citizens are concerned that the constitutional court decision to exempt large groups of people from lustration may lead to further human rights abuses.

A British high-tech company will invest in FYR Macedonia, thus opening 50-200 new jobs, Bill Pavleski, Minister in charge of attracting foreign investments, told reporters late Tuesday at a humanitarian gala dinner in Skopje, organized in honor of the visiting British business... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you ... (more)

Vandals have targeted an Orthodox church and a historic mosque in Macedonia, the latest in a string of incidents after carnival-goers mocked Muslims.

On Thursday afternoon, the head of the Greek Liaison Office in Skopje, Ambassador Alexandra Papadopoulou, handed the demarche to the Macedonian Foreign Ministry.

As the government-sponsored facelift of the Macedonian capital, dubbed Skopje 2014, gains new additions almost every month, it is drawing increasingly vocal criticism from the outside world.

Some flights that had been due to land at Sofia Airport on January 26 2012 were diverted to other airports as heavy snow fell on Bulgaria.