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  The proposal of the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office to issue a detention measure for six persons covered by the bill of indictment in relation to the bus crash that took place near Laskarci has been rejected by the Criminal Court. As the institution said on Tuesday, the house arrest measure has been extended by another 30 days. As far ...

New expertise of 31 telephones will be prepared and presented as new evidence in the trial over the Monster case, which concerns the 2012 Smiljkovci killings. Judge Ognen Stavrev said on Monday that the telephones had been taken away during a search within the frameworks of the initial investigation. “I found the phones in a depot in police. Police told ...

According to VMRO-DPMNE, the Prosecutor’s Office should open an investigation into the case of Dragi Raskovski because there are indications that he committed a crime worth seven million euros by rigging tenders at M-NAV. The opposition party said on Monday that the materials at its disposal had been submitted to the Office, adding that it expected Raskovski to be detained ...

The Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office has filed a charge against several persons suspected of grave crimes against human and property safety in traffic that resulted in the Laskarci crash, in which 16 people were killed and 38 suffered serious bodily injuries. As the Office said on Monday, from 2 July 2018 to 13 February 2019, the charged owner of Durmo ...

Good driving conditions on mainly dry roads. Intensity of traffic outside urban areas increased. No long delays on border-crossings for exiting the country. From 25 June the road in Dracevo by the railway near village of Lisice will be closed for one week due to laying a new layer of asphalt. Regional road Caska-Goloznici will be temporarily closed due to ...

“All Interior Ministry employees will be covered by the vetting process. Their professional education, integrity, asset declaration and potential criminal activities by certain structures at the Interior Ministry will be being checked,” Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said at Monday’s tribune on vetting. As he added, the judiciary and the Prosecutor’s Office should be interested in vetting in order to strengthen ...

On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron criticised the absence of a deal within the frameworks of the EU on the top posts and once again urged institutional reforms. He stated that procedures had to be simplified “so that we are faster, stronger and progress together.” In that regard, the French President stated that he was sceptical about the stories that ...

The first Pride parade was held in Skopje on Thursday. Participants said that this way, LGBTI people were demanding protection and support for human rights. There was a big number of police officers. Support for Skopje pride was expressed by, among others, singer Tamara Todevska, the US Embassy in Macedonia and representatives of the authorities. The Government supported the parade ...

Though she doesn’t expect swift EU integration of the Western Balkans, German Chancellor Angela Merkel highlights that the region has a European perspective. In her video podcast, published on Sunday on the occasion of the upcoming Western Balkans Summit that will be held on Friday within the frameworks of the Berlin Process, she adds that countries from the region should ...

Former Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski was issued on Friday a 30-day detention measure within the frameworks of the case concerning sale of state-owned land. Another seven suspects, including Ministry of Transport and Communications employee and VMRO-DPMNE Executive Committee member Dimitar Dimovski and Dejan Mitrevski, who heads the party’s Municipal Committee in Aeorodrom, were issued the same measure. ...