The fugitive former prime minister of Macedonia was transported in a car from the Hungarian embassy. This Nikola Gruevski crossed the border with Montenegro from Albania, says the Albanian police.
A 24-year-old Albanian killed eight of his relatives with a Kalashnikov in Selenica in South Albania on Friday. There are two children among the victims.
The route of the six Balkan countries that want to join the European Union will look more like a hurdle than on a motorway. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council of Heads of Government, said that in Tirana he was visiting the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Tusk called it in the EU's interest for the region to be 'fully' integrated into the union and, in his view, this will ultimately happen.
The police in Albania intercepted a large batch of cocaine. In the port of Durrës the police discovered 613 kilos worth about 180 million euros in the double bottom of a container loaded with bananas on a ship.
Some 80 villages of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have gone up in flames for the last few weeks. Amnesty International says that the army has flattened entire villages with the help of groups of citizens.
