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Biden to discuss security, migrants at Balkans summit US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Zagreb for a Western Balkans summit, highlighting renewed interest from Washington in the fragile region as it deals with an unprecedented influx of refugees.

25 November 2015

Germany to send 'tens of thousands' of migrants back to Balkans Germany will send thousands of rejected asylum applicants back to the Balkans in the coming months as Berlin toughens its stance on economic migrants in the face of a refugee crisis.

29 October 2015

Juncker calls EU-Balkans mini-summit on refugees for Sunday European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has called a mini-summit in Brussels to tackle the migrant crisis along the western Balkans route.

21 October 2015

EU to help Balkan countries struggling with migrant wave: Merkel The European Union will help Hungary and western Balkan countries struggling with an influx of migrants, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

09 July 2015

Kazakhstan to provide humanitarian aid to Serbia Kazakhstan will render humanitarian aid to Serbia.

26 May 2014

Winter weather claims second victim in the Balkans Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall in the Balkans, that seriously affected traffic throughout the region, claimed a second victim on Sunday as a man died from cold in northern Serbia.

11 December 2012

First visit of UN chief to site of Srebrenica genocide Ban Ki-moon begins a tour of the Balkans this week which will include the first visit by a UN chief to the site of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and to Kosovo since it declared independence in 2008.

18 July 2012