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Chemseddine Berafta dreams of playing football for a living in Italy one day – but in the meantime he is helping a local family run a hair salon in the Bosnian border town of Velika Kladusa.

In her resignation letter to the UN Secretary General, the outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, urged the UN to withdraw its mission to Kosovo, UNMIK, saying it had long ago fulfilled its mandate.

While leaders of Moldova and Turkey lavished praise on one another, protesters have denounced the arrest and rendition to Turkey of a number of teachers allegedly linked to the exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias submitted his resignation on Wednesday, a day after a tense cabinet meeting during which he allegedly clashed with Defense Minister Panos Kammenos over the “name” agreement with neighbouring Macedonia.

Bosnian court sentenced four former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina to a total of 29 years in prison for the killings of Serbs in the village of Kukavice in 1992.

The Bulgarian government has denounced an act of vandalism that saw the peace memorial in Japan scrawled with the name of a Sofia football club – for which two workers accompanying the Sofia Opera on a tour have been blamed.

UEFA’s disciplinary committee on October 25 is to decide on sanctions against Romania after its fans chanted racist slogans against Hungarians, Kosovars and refugees and set off fireworks at a match on Sunday.

Serbian Orthodox Church leaders have – predictably – aligned their stances on Ukrainian Church independence with Russia's Patriarch – accusing the Patriarch of Constantinople of encouraging a schism.

A parliamentary debate in Macedonia on changing the constitution to support the 'name' deal with Greece has yet to produce any signs that opposition MPs are closer to supporting the agreement.

Serbia's Humanitarian Law Centre has filed a criminal complaint against unknown perpetrators for the unsolved murder of a Croat family in Vojvodina in 1992.

Leaders of Montenegro's main opposition alliance, the Democratic Front, are visiting Russia for the first time since the alleged coup attempt in 2016 – which they and Russia are accused of planning.

Skilled, adventurous young Serbians are increasingly going to work in China – lured by the attractive wages offered in Asia’s economic giant.

After the Ukrainian Orthodox Church gained independence from Moscow's control, the Russian patriarchate is seeking to ensure its ties with its Moldovan counterpart remain strong.

The Social Democrat-led government’s sudden push to legalize civil partnerships is putting the party’s alliance with the country’s powerful Church in jeopardy.

In a country where sexual violence is still seen as a ‘private matter’, it is not surprising that very few women are prepared to speak out.

The leadership of the Bosniak National Council, which represents Bosniaks’ interests in Serbia, accused Belgrade officials of interfering in elections for the council’s governing body to boost their favoured candidate.

The United States is disappointed in Macedonia's opposition leaders for blocking the country’s Euro-Atlantic perspective, the US top official wrote in an open letter on Tuesday.

After a high-profile protest alleging a lack of prosecutions for war crimes against Croats, a new report says there have been few convictions for crimes against Croatian Serbs.

After winning the Serb seat on Bosnia and Herzegovina's state presidency, Milorad Dodik announced that he wants to appoint well-known Serbian film-maker Emir Kusturica as his adviser.

The trial of 29 Serb paramilitary commanders and their subordinates for the massacre of Croatian civilians in the village of Vocin in 1991 opened in Zagreb in the absence of the defendants.