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Poor driving conditions are reported throughout the country on wet roads, with low-intensity snowing in the higher regions of the country. Lowered visibility because of fog is present at the roadway Tetovo – Popova Shapka. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar ...

On Sunday, PM and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev and VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski held the leaders’ meeting. Providing conditions for presidential elections and reform laws were the discussed topics. After the meeting, Mickoski said they had exchanged facts about those matters. “We have concluded that Macedonia must go in a right direction,” the VMRO-DPMNE leader stressed. According to him, the ...

On Friday, six defendants in the Titanic 2 case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, received a combined sentence of nearly 20 years. Former State Election Commission (SEC) member Bedredin Ibrahimi and DPA leader Menduh Thaci were sentenced to 30 and 20 months, respectively, while the other four defendants, former Security and Counter-Intelligence Administration (UBK) Director Saso Mijalkov and ex-SEC ...

The SDSM-led coalition’s presidential candidate, Stevo Pendarovski, confirmed on Friday night he had reported to the Skopje Internal Affairs Sector that he was being followed by a secret intelligence service that “I suspect is close to a party”. VMRO-DPMNE has suspicions over Pendarovski’s claims and considers them to be a “devised scenario of the government that will enable courts to ...

Defence Minister and Deputy PM Radmila Sekerinska continued her visit to the United States, whose goal is to speed up the ratification of Macedonia’s NATO Accession Protocol. At the White House, she met William Berkley, National Security Agency Director for European Affairs and Laura Gabrielle Cowan, Adviser to US Vice President Mike Pence. The high White House representatives conveyed their ...

Organisations for gender equality marked on Friday International Women’s Day, 8 March, with a march in the centre of Skopje because of, as they said, gender-based violence, mobbing, lower salaries when compared to men and discrimination. Activists urged politicians to support laws that improve women’s rights. Sneska Ilic of the Gender Equality Platform said there were a lot of problems, ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

“All processes about which pieces of evidence exist continue from the point they are currently at,” PM Zoran Zaev said on Thursday, answering a journalist’s question whether he was actually saving, through the new Draft Law on the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), his coalition partner, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti. According to the PM, there is no possibility in the document ...

Asked to comment on Pendarovski’s statement made on Wednesday that he was being physically followed by a security intelligence service close to the opposition, SDSM Sec Gen Aleksandar Kiracovski said if Pendarovski thought that was the case, it was then true. VMRO-DPMNE, too, reacted to the statements, describing the accusations as “part of the intra-party folklore inside SDSM and yet ...

In Thursday’s interview with Alfa TV, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski accused the SDSM led-government of violating the conditions for fair and democratic elections. “Fair and democratic presidential elections need to be mandatory. Basically, they need to represent a condition in terms of whether Macedonia meets the conditions and whether, basically, Macedonia is a society that needs to be part of ...