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Residents of the Transylvanian mountain resort of Tusnad are on alert after several of the scores of bears living near the town attacked tourists and locals.

Officials in Zagreb reacted angrily after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic compared Croatia’s policies towards Serbs during the 1990s war to Adolf Hitler’s policies towards Jews.

In a raid on Monday night, Macedonian police arrested seven people suspected of participating as foreign fighters in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq.

The International Monetary Fund indefinitely postponed payment of a 38 million euro loan to Bosnia and Herzegovina because of costs incurred by a proposed law granting benefits to war veterans in the country’s Federation entity.

The Serbian town of Sremska Mitrovica is built on the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Sirmium, known as the ‘Mother of Cities’, and an archaeological team now aims to excavate and display its ancient imperial wonders.

Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bulgaria can all offer unexpected delights for wine-lovers, while Moldova has a rich viniculture tradition dating back thousands of years.

A group of Romanian activists has become a force to be reckoned with in the fight to protect traditional costume from cultural appropriation.

Serbian website Insajder has revealed financial details from the management contract for the economically-important steel plant at Smederevo which the Serbian government has kept secret since early 2015.

Anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed on Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel’s memorial house in northern Romania sparked international outrage, but caused little reaction from Romanian politicians.

The opposition and rights activists condemned a Montenegrin military attaché for attending the anniversary celebration of Croatia’s victorious Operation Storm, accusing him of celebrating a crime against Serbs.

Former detainees and relatives of prisoners who were killed at the Bosnian Serb-run Omarska detention facility in Prijedor marked the 26th anniversary of the closure of the notorious wartime camp.

After days of heightened tensions between Belgrade and Pristina, Serbian religious leaders in Kosovo and Montenegro have called on believers to fast and pray for the "salvation of Kosovo".

Right-wing groups led by the small pro-Russian United Macedonia party are launching a joint campaign for a boycott of the September 30 ‘name’ referendum on changing the country’s name to heal relations with Greece.

The prestigious Kosovo writer Jeton Neziraj says receiving a top EU award – while being denied a visa to the EU – highlights Europe’s absurd policies towards his country.

Ahead of September’s UEFA League of Nations – and following failure to qualify for the Russian World Cup tournament – Kosovo’s Football Federation hopes to attract players who have matured in European leagues.

After Serbia held its annual commemoration for refugees who fled Croatia during wartime, Croatian Serbs who were displaced with their families as children recall how the upheaval changed the course of their lives.

If the government wants to avoid a destructive boycott, it should borrow from the Irish example and foster a truly inclusive debate on the terms of the agreement.

Croatian officials celebrated the 23rd anniversary of 1995’s victorious military operation ‘Storm’ that defeated rebel Serbs, with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic saying that it brought long-lasting peace.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told a 23rd anniversary commemoration for Serb victims of the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in 1995 that Belgrade will protect Serbs living in other former Yugoslav countries.

After several days of tension in the north of Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic held a session of the National Security Council and talked to Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church.