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Lake Prespa Has Risen by a Meter and a Half - but It's Still More Than Five Meters Short of Salvation

After decades of vanishing, finally a different headline: the water is rising. But in 60 years the lake lost 60...

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Štip Finally Gets a Regional Emergency Center by September - a Promise Worth Remembering

An idea that stalled for years on staff and space is now supposed to come to life. In Macedonian healthcare,...

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Special Traffic Regime in Central Skopje This Saturday as a Race Takes Over the Streets

For one hour the city core will belong to the runners, not the cars. Sometimes, just for an hour, that's...

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Macedonia

New Mayor, Same Promises: Will the BRT Finally Roll, or End Like the Tram That Never Came?

Every new mayor arrives with the same set of promises, and every previous one left behind a tram that never...

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Parts of Skopje Without Power Until 4 p.m.: "Routine Maintenance" That Eats Half a Workday

When maintaining the grid routinely takes half a workday with no power, the question is how "routine" that really is...

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14,500 Students Sit the Matura Today - But the Question Is How Many Will Build a Life Here

The matura is a ticket to the future, but for more and more generations that future happens beyond the border....

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EU Ambassador "Shocked" by the Landfill Near Lake Ohrid - Residents Have Been Breathing It for Years

A pile of waste 30 meters high, 500 meters from homes and two kilometers from a UNESCO-protected lake. What exactly...

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2,700 Runners From 30 Countries in Ohrid: This Is What Tourism That Doesn't Depend on Beaches and Parties Looks Like

For one weekend, Ohrid won't be known for who sang on the square, but for who ran up to it....

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Tetovo Gives 100 Euros per First-Grader: Real Help, or a Gesture for the Cameras?

Six thousand denars will help, that's a fact. But real support for education isn't measured in one-off vouchers handed out...

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„We Have Valid Permits and Can't Even Get Home”: Centar Residents Furious Over New Parking Tariffs

24,000 denars a year for three cars at the same address, over 1,200 signatures against. Residents call it a „legal...

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The Molika Pine of Pelister Gets Expert Protection: Winter 2024/2025 Battered the Only Forest of Its Kind in the Balkans

100 hectares already treated, recommendations due by August. But the molika doesn't read reports - it either grows or it...

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A Bitola Councillor „Covered” 700 Days of Absence With Certificates That Have No Archive Number - Who Will Answer for It?

Of 244 working days in 2023, leave was approved for 169. Numberless certificates signed by the council chair. Everyone signs,...

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