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North Macedonia: Riots in Skopje during Albanian flag celebrations – Ten arrests
Clashes occurred late last night in Skopje, during Albanian celebrations for Albanian Flag Day.
Young Albanians, among others, tore up and burned Northern Macedonia flags in the Albanian district of Skopje in the city center, and there were shots fired in the air.
North Macedonia parliament OKs caretaker cabinet with first-ever ethnic Albanian PM
North Macedonia's parliament on Sunday approved a caretaker government with a mandate to organize a general election in May.
The government of the small Balkan country of 1.8 million people will be headed by the country's first-ever ethnic Albanian prime minister, current parliament speaker Talat Xhaferi, 61.
North Macedonia Opposition Leader Attends Orban’s Victory Party
The leader of North Macedona's main opposition party, VMRO DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, joined the celebrations marking Viktor Orban's victory in Sunday's Hungarian elections at Orban's Fidesz party HQ in Budapest.
North Macedonia Jails Ex-Speaker Over Storming of Parliament
The Criminal Court in Skopje on Monday in a first instance verdict sentenced former speaker of parliament Trajko Veljanoski to six years and six months in jail and former transport and former labour ministers, Mile Janakieski and Spiro Ristovski, to six years and three months in jail each.
The former head of the secret police, Vladimir Atanasovski, was jailed for six years .
North Macedonia Arrests Police in Crackdown on Passport-Forgers
The Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that at least nine police officers have been arrested so far on suspicion of being part of a group that issued false passports and identity documents to foreign citizens.
"The operation is ongoing and we will have more info once it wraps up, later today or tomorrow," a high-ranking official in the Interior Ministry told BIRN.
Rampage in Parliament Remains Open Wound in North Macedonia
The then opposition leader who later became the Prime Minister, Zoran Zaev [c], was among the badly injured during the mob attack. Photo: EPA/STR
More minnows than big fish on trial:
The parliament came under attack amid a tense political standoff between the allies and opponents of the former right-wing VMRO DPMNE government led by Nikola Gruevski.
North Macedonia Minister Urges Voters: Don’t Turn Back the Clock
Voters, she said, must choose between that future or a return to the past under VMRO-DPMNE when the party was accused of monopolising power, undermining independent institutions, stifling media freedom and spending wildly on nationalist vanity projects.