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The Appeal Court in Skopje has reached a decision to annul the verdict reached by the Skopje Criminal Court over the Titanic 3 case. In this case, DUI members Ismet Guri and Ejup Alimi were found guilty of electoral fraud and destruction of electoral materials during the local election in 2013 in the Municipality of Cair, giving them prison sentences ...

PM Zoran Zaev, answering a question asked by Kanal 5 TV in relation to the government’s activities for fighting corruption, says in a written statement that he did not intend to place responsibility for corruption solely within the state administration employees with his comments over the report of the US State Department. “Our Anti-corruption Strategy focuses on all segments of ...

The Parliament adopted on Wednesday the rebalance of the state budget proposed by the government with 56 votes in favour and 37 against. From the ruling majority they claimed that the budget rebalance will provide more money for the citizens and the business sector which have been most hit by the COVID-19 crisis, while the opposition insisted that the rebalance ...

Dry road conditions are reported across the country, with moderate traffic outside urban areas. There are 30-minute – 45-munite delays at Bogorodica and Tabanovce border crossings to enter or exit the country. No delays are reporters on other border crossings. Landslides are possible along the routes of Katlanovo – Veles, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Vinica – Berovo and Kochani ...

Macedonian taekwondoka Dejan Georgievski has won a silver medal at the Summer Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo, the highest achievement of a Macedonian representative at a Summer Olympiad since the country’s independence. Georgievski reached the finals in the men’s +80kg category where he was defeated by Russian taekwondo practitioner Vladislav Larin with a result 15:9. This is the second medal ...

PM Zoran Zaev avoided to comment on the claims of Bulgarian president Rumen Radev that the rights of citizens of North Macedonia from Bulgarian ethnicity are not respected by the authorities. “I shall not allow myself to replay via the media to specific statements of President Radev or other Bulgarian politicians. I have attended events in this country organised by ...

PM Zoran Zaev said that, according to the agreement between the working groups of the political parties, the date on which the local election of 2021 will take place shall remain 17 October. “There are no changes to the date, which is also determined in accordance with the Electoral Code. There were certain dilemmas about a three-day overlap with the ...

According to PM Zoran Zaev, the introduction of a graph for the ethnicity of the citizens in their IDs does not follow the European practices. “SDSM believes that it would be okay for the ethnicity graph to be included in the IDs, but we also need to respect the European practices, which do not encourage this. I shall discuss this ...

Health Minister Venko Filipce said at a press conference on Tuesday that the government is not planning on introducing restrictive measures against further spreading of COVID-19, but added that it is possible for them to introduce measures against citizens refusing vaccination. “If we estimate that there is a great risk over the health of the population, we may introduce restrictions ...

The Health Ministry reports of 3,839 COVID-19 tests conducted among citizens in the past 224 hours, of which 39 turned positive. Of the new COVID-19 cases, 14 are registered in Tetovo, 12 in Skopje, 5 in Gostivar, 4 in Kumanovo, 2 in Kicevo and one in Bitola and Valandovo. In the same period, 12 patients are registered as recovered and ...