After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.

Recent cases of Czech female journalists facing aggressive defamation campaigns for doing their job highlight persistent problems in a milieu still steeped in daily misogyny and sexualisation.

Igor Popovic pleads guilty to charges of inciting ethnic hatred by calling the Kosovo Liberation Army a 'terrorist organisation' in a speech to Kosovo Serbs.

Milos Pleskovic is found guilty of the murder of three Kosovo Albanians, shot dead near Prizren while out cutting firewood in September 1998.

The Bosnian court upheld the verdict sentencing seven wartime fighters and military policemen to a total of 30 years in prison for the unlawful detention, torture and murder of Serb civilian ...

Bulgaria will replace the lev, established in 1878, with the euro from January 1, 2026, after the EU confirmed Bulgaria's membership of the single currency area.

At least ten countries will officially commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide this year following the adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution to launch an international ...

Film screened at BIRN’s Reporting House in Pristina features harrowing testimonies of survivors of the Dubrava prison massacre, in which nearly 120 inmates were shot dead in May 1999.

In October 2024, a shipment of containers with suspected hazardous waste was returned to Albania. But prosecutors haven't yet managed to analyse their contents because they say they're unable to ...

Already repurposed due to legal challenges, Italy’s asylum centres in Albania cost more than originally planned and much more than similar facilities in Italy itself, offering a potential lesson ...

Slovak police attempted to detain the former defence minister Jaroslav Nad on Wednesday as part of a European investigation into suspected fraud linked to a 2022 arms donation to Ukraine. Nad, who ...

In the run-up to the current referendum, which was launched on March 15, Orban gave interviews on state-controlled media saying that there is nothing more important than preventing Ukraine’s EU ...