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The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that 40 employees of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, together with their families, will leave the country in the near future

Suspected shooter at Chișinău airport is Tajikistan citizen

Moldovan authorities have put all state institutions, as well as law enforcement agencies on high alert after the deadly shooting at the Chisinau Airport - President Maia Sandu. According to her, two people killed as a result of the shooting - a border guard and an employee of the airport security service

2 reportedly killed after suspected Russian national opened fire at Chișinău airport, suspect was detained

Russia did not interfere with the extension of the mandate of the OSCE mission to Moldova, which ended on June 30. Moscow agreed to prolong it until the end of this year. At the same time, she conditioned the continuation of the work of the mission by convening negotiations on the settlement of the Transnistrian conflict. This time, it was stated in plain text: if the negotiations do not take place, the OSCE mission in Moldova will cease to exist.

The Republika Srpska National Assembly (RNSA) today carried out a reckless attack on the Dayton Peace Agreement and the BiH Constitution it established. No amount of political rhetoric or misinformation can alter the fundamental fact that Article III (3) of the Dayton Constitution clearly states that the Republika Srpska must fully comply with the decisions of the institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which includes final and binding rulings of the BiH Constitutional Court. The Republika Srpska cannot unilaterally nullify this obligation; nor can it legally ignore BiH Constitutional Court decisions.

Leader of pro-Russian prohibited Shor party Ilan Shor announced plans to run own government

Orban: Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has just informed me that in accordance with the request made at our meeting last week, the Serbian authorities will soon release the three previously arrested Kosovo policemen from custody. We highly appreciate the step of President @avucic, which he took in a period of serious challenges, and which decision is a clear proof of the strategic cooperation between our countries, and our mutual commitment to the peace and stability of the Balkans

The attack was aimed at killing Jews was plotted by intelligence services linked to the IRGC. According to sources, the operation to thwart potential assassinations was carried out in cooperation with Cyprus' intelligence together with Western partners

This morning, the team on GeoBarents rescued 13 people, including 2 women and 2 unaccompanied minors, who were in distress on a unseaworthy rubber boat. The survivors had spent more than 3 days at the Mediterranean sea

JosepB orrell:Very alarmed by situation in north of Kosovo: extrajudicial arrests of K-Serbs & Kosovo Security Forces marching in South Mitrovica; followed by heavy rhetoric from Serbia. Despite yesterday's crisis meeting, escalation continues & is becoming dangerous. We will not tolerate it

Moldova MFA summoned Russian Ambassador after representative of Russian occupation authorities in parts of Kherson region threatened to strike a bridge in Moldova

Gracanica/Kosovo Dozens of locals gathered on Thursday in front of the police station at the Serb majority municipality, in protest against the arrest of Kosovo Serb D.S. on one war crime charges one day prior

EU Enlargement: Today, the EU Commission will present the oral assessment of progress in the implementation of the preconditions for EU membership by Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia

Police arrested a Kosovo Serb suspected of committing war crimes against ethnic Albanians while he was a prison guard during the 1998-99 conflict, causing a protest by locals in the Serb-majority municipality of Gracanica

Blast occurs at Romania's black sea petromidia refinery, emergency response unit says - Reuters

Turkish activity with 6 (at least) UAVs in different altitudes at east Thrace

.@StateDept has today called on Vucic and Serbia "to immediately and unconditionally release the three Kosovo police detained on June 14. Their arrest and ongoing detention on spurious charges has exacerbated an already tense situation"

Kosovo says Serbia "kidnapped" 3 policemen inside its territory, while Belgrade says they were entered to its territory, adding another fuel to their tensions over the mayors in Serbian towns in northern Kosovo

Greece: Seventeen dead after the sinking of a migrant boat in the Ionian Sea

The High Representative of the International Community for Bosnia, Christian Schmidt, and the EU Delegation strongly condemned on Monday the statements of Dario Kordic, in which he disputes responsibility for war crimes

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced the upcoming snap parliamentary elections, and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic announced her resignation

Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 6 km SW of Atalánti, Greece

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - Bulgaria

Vučić: Time for Pristina to form the ZSO, and "want to believe" that the international community has vehicles for realizing the obligations of the Pristina side

Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 4 km SSE of Fântânele, Romania

US Treasury OFAC sanctions seven leading members of a Russia intelligence-linked malign influence group for their role in the Russian Federation’s destabilization campaign and continued malign influence campaigns in Moldova

The Turkish special purpose battalion from the 65th mechanized brigade that was transferred to Kosovo* has 450 soldiers and officers plus 20 people from civil-military personnel

Turkey responds to NATO's request for maintaining peace by deploying a commando unit to Kosovo. The unit has set off from Thrace

Under pressure from Western leaders, Kosovo's PM and President said they are open to new local elections in the four northern Serb-dominated municipalities