Friday, April 19, 2024
  Two more strong earthquakes struck Croatia on Wednesday morning, the first measuring 4.7 and the second 4.8 on the Richter scale, with the epicenter in the Petrinja area. The first hit at 6.15 a.m. and the second a little later, the head of the Seismological Survey, Ines Ivancic, told Croatian...
30 major cities in Turkey will be closed for entering or exiting in the next 15 days, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote on Twitter. - Isolation is most important, but violations are observed. It is therefore imperative to switch from voluntary to compulsory isolation. As of tonight, entry and exit to...
President Stevo Pendarovski met with Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in Istanbul on Saturday, discussing developments in the Orthodox world, role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in stimulating interreligious dialogue and coexistence among nations and religions. Pendarovski and Bartholomew also referred to the issue of solving the...
The European Commission (EC) finds the issuance of Bulgarian passports to Macedonians a domestic matter in which it does not interfere. The EC was quizzed by MIA after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev referred to the Macedonian nationals holding Bulgarian passports and his expectations from the Census in North Macedonia. While the...
Today the Chamber of Commerce of Macedonia held a working meeting of the Association of Foreign Companies with Technologically Advanced Production, and representatives of the organizational unit for representation of members and networking at the Chamber of Commerce of Macedonia with representatives of the Ministry of Labor and Social...
Macedonia is ranked 56th by the US Cato Institute's Human Rights Index for 2019, with a score of 7.34. Compared to last year, the country is ranked 56th, but it increased by 0.07 index points (from 7.27 last year to 7.34 this year). The index scores are based on 76 indicators related to...
Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who was serving a prison term in the Yamalo-Nenets region of Russia's far north, has died today, Russian news agencies reported Friday, citing prison authorities. Navalny, who is primarily represented by the Western media as the most prominent opposition leader, and was actually an opposition...
More than half of the adults in Macedonia are overweight, while in the region only Croatia sees a higher share of people that are overweight, according to the Landgeist web portal based on latest Eurostat data. More than half of the inhabitants of Europe are overweight, i.e. have a Body...
The Roman Catholic Church and all Christian churches that use the Gregorian calendar celebrate Christmas Eve on Thursday. It is believed throughout the Christian world that the birth of Christ brought light to the truth about mankind, with the event fulfilling the Old Testament prophesy about the birth of the...
The EU General Affairs Council (GAC) will hold a regular meeting on Tuesday, with enlargement and the accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania on the agenda, MIA reports from Brussels. Gasper Dovzan, State Secretary at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who chairs the meeting, has reiterated his country’s...