TEHRAN, June 20 - When Greece and Macedonia signed an agreement Sunday to bring an end to their vicious, three-decade diplomatic dispute, the story had an unlikely hero.
TEHRAN, June 18 - Police fired tear gas to prevent protesters from reaching the parliament building in Skopje on Sunday night, following the signing of an agreement calling for Greece's northern neighbor to be renamed North Macedonia.
TEHRAN, June 18 - Police fired tear gas to prevent protesters from reaching the parliament building in Skopje on Sunday night, following the signing of an agreement calling for Greece's northern neighbor to be renamed North Macedonia.
TEHRAN, June 17 - Greek protesters on Sunday clashed with riot police, who beat them back with tear gas after a historic Greek-Macedonian deal to end a 27-year name row.
TEHRAN, June 17 - The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia signed an accord on Sunday to rename the former Yugoslav republic as the “Republic of North Macedonia.”
TEHRAN, June 14 - Macedonia's president said Wednesday that he would not sign off on a historic deal that would change the country's name, the most potentially disruptive reaction so far to the agreement with Greece that has received diverging reactions in both countries.
TEHRAN, June 13 - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was accused on Wednesday of surrendering part of his nation's identity, as a deal he struck to settle a name dispute with Macedonia prompted a barrage of criticism from opposition politicians and media.
TEHRAN, June 03 -Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Macedonian capital, Skopje, to protest the potential change of the name of the country.
TEHRAN, May 30 - Macedonia's prime minister said Wednesday that any new name for his country that is agreed with neighboring Greece will be put to a referendum to be held later this year.
TEHRAN, April 17 - The EU on Tuesday backed the opening of formal membership talks with Albania and Macedonia as the bloc looks to expand into the Balkans and grow for the first time in years.
TEHRAN, March 4 - Hundreds of Macedonian-Australians gather in Melbourne to rally for Macedonia's right to keep its name in an ongoing dispute with Greece.
TEHRAN, February 5 - Thousands of protesters rallied in Athens on Sunday to demand a hard line in the nation’s dispute with the Republic of Macedonia over the name it shares with a northern Greek region.
TEHRAN, February 5 -Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Greek capital, Athens, to protest against their government’s possible compromise in a long-standing dispute with neighboring Macedonia over its official name.
TEHRAN, January 18 - NATO's secretary-general urged Macedonia on Thursday to solve its 25-year-old name dispute with alliance member Greece and proceed with wide-ranging reforms if it wants its membership bid to succeed.
TEHRAN, January 17 - NATO's secretary-general is due in Macedonia for talks on the country's renewed accession bid, a decade after a dispute with neighboring Greece halted an initial effort to join the alliance.
TEHRAN, December 20 - Skopje was gripped by polluted air and fog which has practically paralyzed the Macedonian capital and perturbed air traffic. On the Skopje streets, numerous citizens were wearing masks in a bid to protect themselves while the visibility was poor.
Tehran, YJC. -- Hundreds of Macedonia's Turkish minority gathered on Friday in a show of support for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over ongoing Istanbul protests.