Macedonia News

A sightseeing boat was pulled from the depths of a Macedonian lake Saturday, two weeks after 15 Bulgarian tourists died in its sinking. The Ilinden was about 300 feet from the shoreline in Lake Ohrid, the Sofia News Agency reported....

Parliamentarians in Kosovo voted Saturday to approve the deal, struck late on Friday, with 81 of the 120 members backing the motion. At 1750 GMT, their counterparts in Macedonia were still voting but are expected to ratify the agreement. No...

Coalition partners Nikola Gruevski and Ali Ahmeti say the dispute over a controversial encyclopedia entry must not damage inter-ethnic relations in Macedonia...In the recently published Macedonian encyclopedia, Albanians were called “Shiptars,” and “highlanders” among other things....

Prime Minister George Papandreou greets the press on the second day of a European Union summit in Brussels yesterday. Speaking after EU heads of state approved a joint statement calling on Turkey to �swiftly implement measures regarding [migrant] repatriation and...

President Georgi Parvanov arrived on Thursday in what was the first visit to Australia by a Bulgarian head of state. Mr Parvanov met with Mr Rudd in his offices at Parliament House on Friday morning. A spokesperson for the prime...

Balkan country�s ethnic Albanian minority as well as in neighboring Kosovo and Albania...The encyclopedia sparked outrage by recounting that ethnic Albanians settled the region in 16th century. Albanians say they were present long before Slavic tribes arrived centuries ago.

Borissov, in an interview for Bulgarian National Television (BNT), said that funding problems "will not have a negative effect on the preparation of Bulgarian forces for overseas deployments" and that it would not undermine "their performance or quality".

The United States has welcomed "establishment of relations between Pri�tina and Skopje and successful completion of the border demarcation�. �The U.S. warmly welcomes the establishing of the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Macedonia as...

Macedonian officials have refused to explain their decision to establish diplomatic relations with Kosovo. Future relations between Serbia and Macedonia have been called into question after Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremi� criticized Skopje�s decision.

Sepp Blatter will run for re-election in 2011, saying Tuesday he still wants to introduce new initiatives to develop soccer worldwide. The Canadian national men's soccer team will play Macedonia in a Nov. 14 exhibition match in the Macedonian capital...