Balkan Newz

News from across the Balkans

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

Serbia 🇷🇸 defeat Italy 🇮🇪 to claim world champions crown in women’s volleyball 🏐
📷 @ossrb ➡️➡️➡️ https://t.co/WPR8KqmwBt #srb #srbita #SRBCup #volleyball #serbia

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

Croatia’s President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarevic joins troops in Afghanistan for a singalong @ Afghanistan https://t.co/BDKfm6zKjp

[Macedonia Timeless @R_Macedonia]

#Today #Skopje marks the #55thanniversary of the #catastrophic #earthquake from #1963. The #exyugoslavia republics were the first ones to #help, and in the #following days #Macedonia received help from 87 #countries, which gave #Skopje another name - "City of Solidarity".

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

TEAM NEWS // #CROENG

Here are the Starting XIs for tonight's semi-final...

#WorldCup

[EULEX Kosovo @EULEXKosovo]

EULEX NEW MANDATE
08 June 2018
Following the Council’s decision, and the exchange of letters between President Hashim Thaci and EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, the EULEX Mission has received a new mandate until 14 June 2020.
full press release: https://t.co/Ztc7Ms0K81

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

In buses from Belgrade to western #Serbia & localities on the border with #Bosnia, most passengers are migrants, ⁦@PolitikaJavlja⁩ reports https://t.co/DNeOvLcNwk

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

#BREAKING: #Macedonia court sentences former prime minister Nikola Gruevski to two years in jail over ‘Mercedes’ affair https://t.co/5c4THYJ85a

[META.mk @meta_agency]

Груевски доби две години казна затвор за луксузниот „мерцедес“ https://t.co/9Qn0YNQA4c

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

On this day in 1980, the ruler of former Yugoslvia, Josip Broz #Tito… https://t.co/W0J1BcWWhd

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On this day in 1999, Nato launched its air war on rump Yugoslavia, then made up of #Serbia 🇷🇸and… https://t.co/PuBNGXDL6o

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

Montenegro government statement: https://t.co/xfYCQCbft4

[Government of Montenegro @MeGovernment]

At 00:30, in front of the @USEmbassyMNE building in #Podgorica, #Montenegro an unknown person committed suicide with an explosive device. Immediately before, that person threw an explosive device from the intersection near the Sport Center into the US Embassy compound. (1 of 2)

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

The embassy statement: https://t.co/DBwB5hhwpI

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

Portal Analitica reports that a hand grenade was thrown at the embassy before a second went off and the assailant killed themself in a likely suicide

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

#BREAKING: US embassy in #Montenegro targeted in bomb attack, CdM news portal reports, citing police.

The embassy in Podgorica has issued an alert for what it calls an “active security situation”.

Unconfirmed reports of two explosions and that one person has died.

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

Setback for Novak #Djokovic @DjokerNole who has confirmed he’s had an operation on his troublesome elbow after feeling “pain” at the @AustralianOpen — his comeback tournament after a six-month break due to the injury https://t.co/ppOAw3K0L5 #Serbia #tennis #ATP

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

New Communist Party of Yugoslavia to take part in Belgrade city elections https://t.co/BUt9w2iDA9

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

Did you know Croatia is pressing ahead with plans to dump nuclear waste near the pristine river Una just across the border from the Bosnian town of Novi Grad?

This is despite the fears of 30,000 that it will damage the environment and harm their health

https://t.co/uGNJtEXAjX

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

#BREAKING: Autopsy results show #Bosnia Croat war criminal Slobodan #Praljak took cyanide in UN court

“... preliminary results of the toxicological test showed that mister Praljak had a concentration of potassium cyanide in his blood” https://t.co/P4EszyqqZz

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

BREAKING: #Bosnia Croat former general Slobodan #Praljak reportdely dies in hospital after taking poison in a coutroom of the UN tribunal in The Hague after being sentenced to 20 years for war crimes

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

The moment former #Bosnia Croat general Slobodan #Praljak ‘drank poison’ in a UN court after being sentenced to 20 years’ jail for war crimes https://t.co/1eCJNZiOtD

[Balkan Newz @balkanewz]

BREAKING: #Bosnia Croat war crimes convict Slobodan Praljak says he drank poison in court after verdict in UN war crimes tribunal