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US State Department blacklists Nikola Gruevski and Sasho Mijalkov

The US Department of State blacklisted the former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Sasho Mijhalkov, the former Director of UBK (Home Security and Counterintelligence Administration of the Republic of Macedonia), in response to their participation in major corruption processes in the Republic...

Violence against women has been promoted in the Balkans through popular music for 40 years

Ana Ninković, a student at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade caused numerous reactions on the social networks with her documentary film "Violence against women in the domestic songs" that she produced for her exam in "Pop Culture: From digital to trans-media", and...

Public Room court case ends with 4-year prison sentences for publishers of private nude photos

The Basic Criminal Court Skopje at the end of the last week sentenced the two convicted in the "Javna Soba" (Public Room) trial to 4 years prison sentences. This group on Telegram was used for sharing private nude photos or videomaterials of girls and...

Portalb.mk: Two months after COVID-19 hospital blaze in Tetovo, Prosecutor’s Office still waiting for forensic reports

The second month since the tragic blaze in the modular COVID-19 hospital in Tetovo has passed, but there are still no results from the investigation into the causes. The general public is still held hostage by the mystery and the questions that the authorities...

Public Prosecution: Short circuit in defibrillator cord started the deadly blaze in COVID hospital in Tetovo

The deadly fire in the modular COVID hospital in Tetovo which killed 14 people was a result of a short circuit in a cord of a defibrillator, announced the Basic Public Prosecution - Tetovo, citing Ministry of Interior's (MOI) forensic report. After the electric...

Number of casualties of fire in North Macedonia hospital rises, Public Prosecution requests post mortem for 14 bodies

Prosecutors in North Macedonia have issued orders for post mortem and identification of the bodies of the 14 victims of the blaze the engulfed the COVID-19 modular hospital in Tetovo last night, and an investigation is ongoing whether there are other victims, announced the...

Facebook to include Holocaust denial in its definition of banned hate speech

Facebook is changing its internal rules by including Holocaust denial in its definition of hate speech, after suffering criticism for not doing enough to tackle this form of toxic disinformation. Monika Bickert, VP of Content Policy published a blog post on October 12 announcing that...

Three returning ISIS members arrested in North Macedonia, explosive belts and weapons found

In a police raid carried out by the Ministry of Interior (MOI) of North Macedonia, in cooperation with the National Security Agency (NSA), and by order of the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office for Prosecuting Organised Crime and Corruption (BPPO-POCC), three terrorists who organized themselves...

Police make arrests in Gazi baba, Singelic, and Arachinovo searching for narcotics

During last night's raid, the police also conducted searches at various locations and homes in Gazi Baba, Arachinovo and Singelic, and has taken into detention several persons. More details about the raid will be released today. The raid was confirmed for TV 21 by Minister...

In Tetovo and Gostivar, pupils ride in overcrowded vans with drivers without licences

Pupils in Tetovo and Gostivar are traveling to schools using overcrowded vans that are driven by drivers without licenses, informs the Sector for Interior during its traffic controls. -Yesterday, between 6 and 9 o'clock in Gostivar, police inspections were carried out on 35 vans used...

No, the Cesna did not crash because of the plane carrying Tsipras!

Speculation from the Bulgarian news portal "BulNews" that the "Cesna" plane that crashed near Solunska Glava which killed a family of four from Bulgaria, crashed because it was not allowed to land in Skopje due to the flight of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras,...

Rocks, concrete blocks, containers: the vandals are becoming more inventive when it comes to hitting the trains

There is no end to throwing rocks at trains that are moving or putting objects on the railroad tracks. In less than a month, trains in Skopje were stoned on two occasions. This past weekend the engine driver was hurt while the train was...

The driver of the bus that turned over near Leskovac drove at a speed of 100 km/h

The unadjusted speed in relation to the road conditions when the bus drove 100 km/h was the cause for the tragic accident of the Macedonian bus who turned over near Leskovac, Serbia when three persons got killed and 32 were injured, inform Serbian media,...

Statistics from MOI: Mostly men commit domestic violence, and women are the most common victims

In the first six months of this year, the police filed criminal charges against a total of 388 people suspected of domestic violence, according to statistics from the Ministry of Interior. Of the total number of the perpetrators of this crime, according to the statistics,...

Dilaver Bojku – Leku was murdered on a beach in Struga

The controversial businessman from Struga, Dilaver Bojku - Leku was shot today on the "Aqua Sky," confirmed sources for Meta who are investigating the case. An unknown person, at 16.45 h, shot today Bojku in the head after which he ran away. The businessman...

The stolen 3 million euros from NLB are gone and the thief was taken into custody

B.S. (40) an employee at NLB bank, the day before yesterday afternoon, stole around 3 million euros from the bank’s vault by putting them in a bag and running away, he still hasn’t told the police where the money is. The MOI has filed criminal...

The theft of 3 million euros from NLB is the largest robbery in Macedonian history

Yesterday's case, where an employee from NLB Bank stole 3 million euros in francs and euros from the bank’s vault, is probably the biggest robbery in the history of an independent Macedonia. Last night, an individual was arrested in connection with the robbery, which is...

Employees at a Daily Newspaper Have Tried to Blackmail a Member of SEC

The previous night, at 00.45 h, a member of SEC reported to the police in Bitola, an attempted blackmail. As the Ministry of Internal Affair has announced, yesterday at 16.33h, the member of the Commission while traveling with two other people to Bitola in...

Police Officer killed in Kumanovo

Last night, around 23:00 a member of the police force was killed during an intervention after he responded to a domestic violence call in the Kumanovo neighbourhood of Sredorek, a dominantly Roma community. said the Public Prosecution. The statement into the situation states that during...

Young man in a coma, after a BMW and motorcycle collide in Kisela Voda

At 12:40 am yesterday an accident occurred on Boris Trajkovski Boulevard in the Kisela Voda neighbourhood in Skopje. The accident involved a BMW motor car and a motorcycle. The motorcyclist was a 22-year-old man who has sustained serious injuries. The seriously injured motorcyclist was...