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EU Focus: Bulgaria Faces EU Entry Hurdles

Brussels worried by slow pace of reform of judiciary and high level of corruption.

Kosovars Shrug Off Blame for March Riots

Wave of arrests for violence elicits hostility from most local people.

Desperate Albanians Place Faith in Old-Time Healers

Unable to afford hospital treatment, impoverished villagers are turning to local magicians for cures.

Europe's Leaky Outer Frontier

European institutions to start spending serious money to defend Serbia’s borders, seen as a bridgehead for illegal immigrants.

Jobless Macedonians Risk All in Baghdad

Poverty driving young men to take dangerous, highly-paid work in Iraq.

Albania: Pollution Keeps Tourists Away

Shipping accident off Albanian coast does further damage to country’s tourism industry.

Boom in Sandzak Capital Turns to Bust

Economic collapse in Novi Pazar threatens to expose region’s simmering social and ethnic tensions.

Bosnian Serbs Punish SDS at the Polls

Voters disillusioned with nationalist hardliners give them a wake up call.

Scenting Corruption, Investors Shun Romania

Foreign business will think twice about coming to Bucharest until country cleans up its act.

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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