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New EU diplomatic head pledges focus on Balkans, Russia (Al Jazeera)

Josep Borrell urges bloc to stand firm on economic sanctions against Moscow until there is 'tectonic change' in Kremlin. The European Unions’s incoming foreign affairs chief said on Monday he would focus on the Balkans and Europe's eastern neighbours, while urging the bloc to stand firm on sanctions against Russia. See at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/eu-diplomatic-head-pledges-focus-balkans-russia-191007170121590.html

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Raskovic Ivic: The division of KiM would lead to the exodus of Serbs living south of the Ibar (Danas)

People's Party Vice President Sanda Raskovic Ivic says that "delineation" with Kosovo Albanians is unconstitutional and that, if that happens, the leaders of the current regime will be responsible when the authority change and that the division of Kosovo leads to the exodus of Serbs living south of the Ibar River.

Thousands attend counter-protest in Macedonia (Al Jazeera)

Tens of thousands of Macedonians have turned out to support Nikola Gruevski's government in a counter-protest after opposition supporters marched through the capital Skopje a day earlier to demand the prime minister's resignation. The opposition accuses Gruevski of corruption, tapping the phones of thousands of people and of fomenting ethnic tensions to hang on to power. Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker, reporting from Skopje, said a large crowd of government supporters playing Macedonian nationalist music and carrying Macedonian and Serbian flags assembled

A painful wait to bury Kosovo's war victims (Al Jazeera)

Remains of missing massacre victims killed during the 1998-99 conflict finally given a proper burial by their families.

For 16 years in one small village in Kosovo's central region, the relatives of missing war victims visited empty graves. Some had photographs, some did not. But it was at least a place where they could bring flowers, talk to the picture, and mourn the loss of a loved one whose body had not been found.