Macedonian Police

The scene was hardly conducive to romance: she was a sick Iraqi in a wave of refugees trying to enter Serbia, while he belonged to the stern Macedonian police force keeping guard.

Hundreds of refugees on Monday tried to break through a border fence into Macedonia from Greece, where more than 7,000 people are stranded, as anger mounted over barriers to entry imposed on migrants.

Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants and refugees who stormed the border from Greece today, tearing down a gate as frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans.

A Macedonian man suspected of recruiting jihadists for the ISIS was arrested today in north-east Italy, police said.

Macedonian policemen fired tear gas at hundreds of mostly Pakistani migrants who tried to storm into the Balkan country from Greece on Wednesday demanding passage to wealthier northern Europe.

Macedonian police arrested five people today in connection with clashes between security forces and an armed ethnic Albanian group in May that left 18 dead.

Thousands of migrants stormed across Macedonia's border on Saturday, overwhelming security forces who threw stun grenades and lashed out with batons before apparently abandoning a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe.

More than 1,500 mostly Syrian refugees, trapped in no-man's land for three days, entered Macedonia from Greece on Saturday without any attempt by the police to stop them, an AFP reporter said.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will, on Wednesday, become the first Serbian government head to visit Albania, aiming to improve the fragile relations between the two Balkan nations.

Macedonian authorities handed over to Kosovo on Friday the bodies of nine ethnic Albanian gunmen killed in clashes with the police earlier this month, officials said.

Special police units pulled out of the northern Macedonian town early Monday where 22 people, including eight officers, were killed over the weekend in worst violence in the country since its 2001 inter-ethnic conflict.

An image from the protests in Macedonia has fired up public imagination and social media.

Police in Macedonia say 32 people were injured when a train crashed into a long-distance bus at a railroad crossing.

The scene was hardly conducive to romance: she was a sick Iraqi in a wave of refugees trying to enter Serbia, while he belonged to the stern Macedonian police force keeping guard.

Hundreds of refugees on Monday tried to break through a border fence into Macedonia from Greece, where more than 7,000 people are stranded, as anger mounted over barriers to entry imposed on migrants.

Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants and refugees who stormed the border from Greece today, tearing down a gate as frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans.

A Macedonian man suspected of recruiting jihadists for the ISIS was arrested today in north-east Italy, police said.

Macedonian policemen fired tear gas at hundreds of mostly Pakistani migrants who tried to storm into the Balkan country from Greece on Wednesday demanding passage to wealthier northern Europe.

Macedonian police arrested five people today in connection with clashes between security forces and an armed ethnic Albanian group in May that left 18 dead.

Thousands of migrants stormed across Macedonia's border on Saturday, overwhelming security forces who threw stun grenades and lashed out with batons before apparently abandoning a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe.

More than 1,500 mostly Syrian refugees, trapped in no-man's land for three days, entered Macedonia from Greece on Saturday without any attempt by the police to stop them, an AFP reporter said.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will, on Wednesday, become the first Serbian government head to visit Albania, aiming to improve the fragile relations between the two Balkan nations.

Macedonian authorities handed over to Kosovo on Friday the bodies of nine ethnic Albanian gunmen killed in clashes with the police earlier this month, officials said.

Special police units pulled out of the northern Macedonian town early Monday where 22 people, including eight officers, were killed over the weekend in worst violence in the country since its 2001 inter-ethnic conflict.

An image from the protests in Macedonia has fired up public imagination and social media.

Police in Macedonia say 32 people were injured when a train crashed into a long-distance bus at a railroad crossing.