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The organization in charge of creating a Pan-European free energy market on Monday criticized Macedonia for its failure to liberalize its energy market, saying it had breached consumers' rights and protected the monopoly of the current supplier, Austria's EVN.

Montenegro intends one day to set up joint diplomatic representatives offices with a number of countries, including Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania, a Montenegrin diplomat in Kosovo has said.

The Montenegrin Charge d'Affaires in Kosovo, Radovan Miljanic, said the time was not far off when Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia would have a number of joint embassies and consulates.

A first-ever local referendum in Macedonia, on the future of a famous mall in Skopje, appeared to have failed on Sunday after only 40 per cent of residents of the municipality of Centar cast ballots.

A 50-plus threshold was needed for the vote to be pronounced successful.

"99.5 percent of asylum seekers returned to Serbia"

BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic says that 99.5 percent of Serbian citizens seeking asylum in EU countries have been sent back.

The reason is that Serbia has been declared a country of safe origin, he told a news conference on Friday.

A train hit a large group of about 50 migrants near the Macedonian city of Veles on Thursday, killing at least fourteen of them.

Migrants, who enter Macedonia from Greece on their way to western Europe, often use the railway as orientation through the unknown terrain, the Macedonian Information Agency (MIA) reports.

 At least 14 migrants believed to be from Afghanistan and Somalia were killed by an express train as they walked along the tracks in central Macedonia at night, police said April 24.

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