Macedonia News

For centuries, Greek ideas and ideals have shaped the world. You have produced the vision of Pericles – the wisdom of Socrates, Aristotle and Plato – the adventuring spirit of Homer. You have given us the Olympic ideal of peaceful competition and the practice of Amphictionia, what some have called the forerunner of the United Nations.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlined three challenges facing the planet vis-a-vis the issue of migration, paying particular attention to the modern-day scourge of human trafficking, especially of women and children, during his address to the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development, which opened in Athens on Wednesday.

SKOPJE -- The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts sacked Blaze Ristovski, editor-in-chief of the first Macedonian encyclopaedia, and his team Thursday .

The Thessaloniki Film Festival opens next week with a bigger prize purse and a screening schedule that includes fewer local Greek films because of an ongoing dispute within the Greek film community.

With less than ten days to go before the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival kicks off, the festival has announced its full slate of 240 films, as well as its seven member jury to judge the fest’s international competition.

Shouts of "zdravo" echoed through the terminal at Pease International Airport on Monday when the Pease Greeters gathered to celebrate their 300th flight and found themselves greeting 100 members of the Macedonian Army rather than the United States troops they are more accustomed to welcoming.

SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said on Friday that his country will not change its name without a referendum.

An important, but lesser known, tomb monument of the 4th century BC, discovered in 1987 in the village of Spilia, Kozani pprefecture in northwest Greece, will be accessible to visitors following the completion of restoration works conducted by the culture ministry's 30th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities.

As President Obama decides whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, we should remember that most of the conventional pessimism about Afghanistan is only half-truth. Remember the mantra that the region is the "graveyard of empires," where Alexander the Great, the British in the 19th century, and the Soviets only three decades ago inevitably met ...

Skopje Trenkovski The former head of Macedonia's Health Fund, Gjorgji Trenkovski was detained Monday on suspicion of embezzlement of some half million euros from public funds, the Interior Ministry said.

In his address at the lunch in honor of the UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon in Athens on November 4, 2009 the President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias in regard to the issue of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia noted: "The problem is simple ...

The web page of Skopje’s municipality of Butel, has become a popular destination for many internet users who seek amusement in the numerous awkward English translations found there.

An announcement by a UN Secretariat spokesman on Wednesday said that name) Matthew Nimetz has proposed a new meeting with the representatives of Greece and fYRoM, during the week beginning on November 16.

A couple of years ago, I and other family members traced our DNA through FamilyTree.com . My DNA - so that of my father, his Greek father and so on - tested into Haplogroup R1a1, meaning our Y chromosomes have been wandering around central Europe since at least the time ...

In Romania, over the past week alone, 174 new cases of the H1N1 virus have been registered, bringing the total number to 555. Five schools have been closed. New cases reported in Serbia, FYROM, Bulgaria, Albania, Turkey, Greece, Slovenia. Death cases have been reported.

The 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival opens on Nov. 13 under the theme "Why Cinema Now", and will run until Nov. 22.

Skopje Sinisa-Jakov Marusic PM and VMRO head Nikola Gruevski and DUI leader Ali Ahmeti The leaders of Macedonia's two governing parties met Tuesday afternoon to discuss the burning name dispute with Greece.

The president of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov, has invited President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias to formally visit the neighbouring country.

Macedonian President George Ivanov Wednesday invited his Greek counterpart, Karolos Papoulias, to make a first official visit for talks to resolve an 18-year dispute with Greece over his country's name.

The Financial Police has submitted criminal charges against Trenkovski for abuse of position and competences, because the Fund paid twice for the same medicines, to suppliers and "Gradski Apteki", illegally acquiring approximately Denar 27,76 million .