Skopje Basic Court

Tensions that erupted in North Macedonia between two opposing groups of clerics in the official Islamic Community, IVZ, have shown no sign of subsiding after its new self-proclaimed head, backed by a court ruling, on Wednesday said he would seek police aid to enter the headquarters of the IVZ, which he said his rival had "occupied".

Only two of the 23 candidates for the vacant post of Macedonia's chief prosecutor have passed the first filter at the prosecutor's council, prosecutor Ljupco Joveski and professor Elena Andreevska, reports indicate.