Economy Minister Kreshnik Bekteshi announced via Facebook that the government, in coordination with EVN Macedonia and Mayor of Aracinovo Ridvan Ibraimi, found a solution to the problem with the defect of the electricity network in Aracinovo because of which the citizens are left without electricity for three days now. “The solution we agreed upon is temporary, but we hope that ...

Bulgarian judicial authorities are to conduct another investigation at the site of the Struma motorway where on 23 November 2021 a bus of the company Besa Trans transporting Macedonian citizens from Istanbul to Skopje crashed and caught fire, resulting with the death of 45 of the passengers. Lawyer of some of the relatives of the victims Nikolay Dimitrov informs that ...

The Health Ministry report that they have registered over the past 24 hours 381 new COVID-19 cases out of 1,131 tests conducted among citizens. The Health Ministry also registered 775 patients recovered from COVID-19 infection, as well as 6 death cases. So far in the country, 338,929 cases of COVID-19 have been registered, of which 326,990 have recovered, 2,478 are ...

The State Electoral Commission (SEC) informed that political parties and candidates at the local election that was held on Saturday in Tetovo, Mavrovo-Rostuse and Centar Zupa can file appeals over the results as late as 07:00 p.m. on Monday. If appeals are filed, SEC would process them as late as Wednesday, while parties and candidates can file lawsuits over the ...

The Council of Public Prosecutors of North Macedonia (CPP) is set to examine on Wednesday the appeal filed by Head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime (BPPOOC) Vilma Ruskovska. Ruskovska’s appeal is put up on the daily order of CPP on their 63rd session scheduled for Wednesday morning. Ruskovska filed the appeal over the decision for her suspension ...

Former Director of the Security and Counterintelligence Department Saso Mijalkov turned himself in at the Struga Prison on Monday, where he is to serve a three-year prison sentence. Mijalkov was one of the defendants in the Empire case, for which he pleaded guilty and reached an agreement with the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organised Crime (BPPOOC) for a shorter ...

The State Electoral Commission (SEC) published on Saturday evening the preliminary results of the local elections held in the municipalities of Centar Zupa and Mavrovo-Rostuse for new mayor and in the Municipality of Tetovo for new municipal council. In Centar Zupa, where 3,340 citizens out of the 3,395 registered with right to vote cast their votes for the only candidate, ...

Leader of the Alliance for Albanians (AA) Ziadin Sela announced on Sunday afternoon that he is officially withdrawing from the top position in the party. The decision for Sela’s withdrawal was made during a meeting of the central board of the party, following the local election in Tetovo, at which AA did not manage to win a single seat in ...

Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic stated in an interview for Alsat TV that the government is finalising the preparations of the negotiation structure for start of the screening process in September with the EU. “Around 15 September we will finalise all preparations and will notify all ministries about their role and duties in this process. It is important ...

President Stevo Pendarovski attended and addressed on Friday the 55th International Seminar for Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture, which takes place in Ohrid from 17 August till 2 September. “Not a single document or declaration cannot secure the existence of a language if it is not alive, i.e. if no people use the language,” Pendarovski said. At a press conference ...