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Berisha Tones Down Nano Threat

Climbdown follows foreign warnings against attempt to overturn government.

EU Focus: New Union Border Benefits Balkan Citizens

Worries that enlargement is creating a new Iron Curtain in south-east Europe appear misplaced.

EU Focus: Should Macedonia's Accession Bid be Postponed?

Imminent membership application risks weakening the Macedonia’s reformers and destabilising its fragile democracy.

EU Focus: Romania Favours Stability Over Reforms

With elections due in November, the authorities are reluctant to undertake job-cutting reforms.

Kosovo: UN Lays Down Conditions

Last month's violent riots have not shaken the internationals' determination to make Kosovo's leadership play by their rules.

Gun Battle Exposes Splits in UN Police

A recent shootout has provoked demands for a revamp of Kosovo’s international police

Romanian Search for Good Life Abroad

Workers struggling to make ends meet at home are heading for western European countries in unprecedented numbers.

Old Foes Serenade Serbia in Istanbul

Love is in the air in the Balkans - if the Eurovision Song Contest is anything to go by.

Comment: Balkans Facing Possibly Ruinous Isolation

The international community’s flagging interest in the Balkans could undermine media development and democracy in the region.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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