SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia's new president has cleared a backlog of legislation adopted by parliament that his predecessor had refused to sign into law because of a dispute...

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Stevo Pendarovski has been sworn in as the new president of North Macedonia, promising he will serve all citizens in a deeply divided society and will lobby European...

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia's lawmakers have passed for a second time a package of bills which the country's president has refused to sign into law in protest at a landmark...

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Election authorities in North Macedonia have confirmed three candidates for the April 21 presidential elections, including a law professor running as the first...

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — North Macedonia's left-wing ruling party has nominated the country's coordinator for NATO membership as its candidate in an April 21 presidential...

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's parliament speaker has signed a decree declaring a presidential election will be held on April 21.

President Gjorge Ivanov is serving his second and final five-year term which ends on May 12. The next president will be the head of state of the newly renamed North Macedonia, after an agreement with Greece that ends a 27-year dispute over the country's name.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Albanian has been designated the second official language in Macedonia, which has a substantial, and restive, ethnic Albanian minority.

The move ends a months-long standoff between the left-led government and Macedonia's conservative President Gjorge Ivanov, who had refused to sign off on the law saying it was unconstitutional and unnecessary.

The law was published in the government gazette Tuesday after being signed by parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's president has urged parliament to reject a deal with Greece under which his country would amend its constitution and change its name to North Macedonia in return for being able to join NATO.

Gjorge Ivanov, a longtime critic of the name deal, spoke Friday in his annual address to lawmakers. He claimed under the accord that Macedonia would be paying the "highest price" with the "deletion" of its national identity.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's president says he won't vote in a Sept. 30 referendum on whether to change the Balkan country's name to "North Macedonia."

Macedonians will vote next weekend on a proposal to change the country's name, ending a long-running dispute with neighboring Greece, which sees the use of the term "Macedonia " as a claim on its own province of the same name.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's president is insisting that he will not sign off on a deal with Greece to change his country's name, even after parliament ratified the agreement for a second time.

Gjorge Ivanov says the deal for Macedonia to be renamed "North Macedonia" is unconstitutional. The conservative main opposition party to which he belongs also opposes the agreement, saying it concedes too much to Greece,

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — The Latest on Macedonia's name dispute with Greece (all times local):

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Macedonia's parliament has ratified a historic deal with neighboring Greece for the second time in two weeks, after the Macedonian president temporarily blocked the agreement.

A total of 69 lawmakers in the 120-strong parliament approved the deal, under which the country would be renamed "North Macedonia."

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's president says he is against any solution to the dispute with neighboring Greece over Macedonia's name if his country has to change the way it calls itself domestically.

President Gjorge Ivanov also said Thursday in a statement that the potential agreement should not involve changes to Macedonia's constitution.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Bulgaria has waded into a 25-year-long dispute between Greece and Macedonia regarding Macedonia's name, saying that issue also concerns Bulgaria.

Macedonia and Greece are in a renewed push to resolve their dispute. Greece objects to its northern neighbor using the name, saying it implies territorial claims on its own province of Macedonia. One solution being discussed is to add a qualifier such as "new," ''upper" or "north" to the name.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — A U.N. envoy has started talks with Macedonia's leadership over ending a long-running dispute with neighboring Greece over the country's name.

Matthew Nimetz met Macedonia's president Gjorge Ivanov in Skopje Thursday and will also see government officials and party leaders.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Hundreds of people have gathered in Macedonia's capital to protest a bill that would make Albanian the country's second official language.

The protest in front of the parliament building in Skopje on Sunday was peaceful, although participants burned the European Union flag.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's new parliament speaker, whose election last week led to protesters storming parliament and attacking lawmakers, has asked the country's president to hand the opposition leader a mandate to form a new government.

Parliament said in a press release Thursday that Talat Xhaferi had sent a letter to President Gjorge Ivanov noting that a "parliament majority has been established" and that he expects the president to act according to the constitution.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's president appealed Tuesday to international leaders to condemn demands by minority ethnic Albanians for enhanced constitutional rights that he says threaten his country's existence.

President Gjorge Ivanov argued that a common platform signed in Albania in January by three of his country's ethnic Albanian parties endangers Macedonia's sovereignty and independence.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's president withheld the mandate to form a government Wednesday from the runner-up in December's elections, accusing left-wing leader Zoran Zaev of jeopardizing the country's sovereignty.

Further complicating the country's festering political crisis, President Gjorge Ivanov took issue with the demand by Zaev's potential coalition partners, minority ethnic Albanian parties, to make Albanian Macedonia's second official language.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonian conservative leader Nikola Gruevski is uncertain of getting an ethnic Albanian party to join his coalition just hours before his mandate to form a government expires.

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonian police say Turkey has extradited five Macedonians arrested in Istanbul in an operation to crack down on recruitment for the Islamic State group.

Police said Saturday that the Macedonians, aged 18 to 24, were arrested two weeks ago in Istanbul's Aksaray district along with four other foreigners aiming to fight for IS in Syria. Two of the arrested Macedonians were seriously injured when they tried to escape during the operation.