At 1.30pm, the gathering held a minute’s silence and Zaneta Skerlev, a former journalist for the BBC world service, gave a speech saying the Macedonian people are “not just united in grief but ...

People as young as 16 were among the casualties and the nation declared seven days of mourning. Mr Shafier, who laid flowers in front of the embassy, said: 'I was actually in Macedonia when it ...

Thirteen people including a former government minister were remanded in custody for 30 days in North Macedonia on Friday over a nightclub blaze, believed to have been caused by pyrotechnics ...

In Kocani, a town of fewer than 25,000 people, the loss is profound – a large part of its youth died in the fire. Like many towns across North Macedonia, it had already been hollowed out by ...

“I woke up to my family calling me, because my mum, who is Macedonian, had found out from a friend and she phoned me quite frantically, very worried. “The day after it happened I went past the ...

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A British-Macedonian teenager who was out clubbing the night of a deadly nightclub fire has described his mother ringing him “frantically” and thinking “it could have been me”. The fire ...