Two persons were found dead near the village of Miravce, close to Gevgelija. One of them was identified as a minor Afghan citizen, who resided in Greece and was given an identity document by Greek authorities. The other remains unidentified and is also presumed to be a migrant who illegally crossed...

The Healthcare Ministry informed that 15 patients died during the past day from Covid-19. The total estimated number of deaths in Macedonia rose to 7,051. There were also 227 newly diagnosed cases – out of 2,595 tests. The total number of active cases is estimated at 6,393.

Kresnik Ramadani, director of the MEPSO energy transportation company, warned that due to low domestic production the company will likely have to pay 15 million EUR in fines, money which the company doesn’t have. The company tapped into the European network without having a procurement contract....

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski, who is former head of the ELEM public energy company, warned that the REK Bitola coal mine is being damaged with reckless mining, as Macedonia faces an energy crisis. Due to neglect in planned mining and developing new digs, the coal plant in Bitola which provides...

Poet, writer, critic and translator Atanas Vangelov has died aged 74. Born in Bogdanci, Vangelov worked in Radio Skopje before becoming a professor at the Philological Faculty in Skopje.He published dozens of books of poetry, literary criticism, TV drama and grammar. Weeks before his death he was...

The campaign office of Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski informed that one of its candidates for the Kumanovo council was attacked by a candidate from the rival SDSM party. Dimitrievski launched an independent mayoral run after his former SDSM party refused to nominate him for re-election, and after...

The Interior Ministry insists that it did not conduct surveillance and obstructed the campaign of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE. VMRO officials today shared Viber messages exchanged between the top police officials in Prilep, and people from the office of Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski. From the...

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoskii strongly condemned the report that top police officials from Prilep and the leadership of the Interior Ministry ordered the following of the opposition mayoral candidate there and used the police to persecute his activists. The revelations were made by VMRO official...

The results from the first round of the local elections, extrapolated on a general election map, would further undercut the SDSM seats in Parliament and would leave VMRO-DPMNE on top. According to the number of votes won in the council races, if these were general elections VMRO-DPMNE would’ve...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban yesterday addressed tens of thousands of supporters in the center of Budapest, on the anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian revolution and the 2006 protests against the Gyurcsany Government. In his speech, he linked the two events with the on-going pressure on Hungary...

Gevgelija police found nine illegal migrants from India in a car heading north on the highway to Skopje. The group was intercepted yesterday evening. The driver and co-driver were detained – both smugglers are from Aracinovo near Skopje. Macedonia is on the main Balkan migrant route. Most...

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski will campaign in Vevcani and in Pestani, near Ohrid today. He is there to support the VMRO candidates in both municipalities, primarily Kiril Pecakov, who only narrowly didn’t win the mayoral race in Ohrid outright, in the first round. This is the second...

Centar mayoral candidate Natasa Kotlar was joined by the former Mayor of Skopje Koce Trajanovski in her canvassing yesterday. Kotlar was only narrowly behind the SDSM candidate Goran Gerasimovski in the first round and has a chance to make a major upset in what was supposed to be an easy SDSM hold...

VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki today published Viber messages exchanged between top police officials and leaders of the SDSM party in the city of Prilep. The messages reveal that the police was following the VMRO candidate doctor Borce Jovceski, and was intruding on his campaign, following his activists...

With time running out to the second round of the local elections, Zoran Zaev held a rally in Skopje’s Boris Trajkovski sports hall, to try to motivate his supporters. His Skopje mayoral candidate Petre Silegov was 8,000 votes behind Danela Arsovska in the first round and Zaev staked the survival...

The mayoral candidate in Skopje’s Karpos district, Stevce Jakimovski, informed that the ruling SDSM party are interfering in his Facebook group and comments, in an attempt to discredit him. Jakimovski said that there is an unusual number of obviously bogus accounts that were liking his...