—❗️🇲🇰 NEW: North Macedonia’s Health Minister Azir Aliu says a working group has been formed to examine documents and emails that mention the country as a source of human brain samples sent to the United States for scientific experiments linked to the Jeffrey Epstein files.

➡️ The review will focus on the administrative and ethical basis for past exports of brain tissue to US research institutions.

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—☦️ 🇧🇦/🇷🇸 UPDATE: The Municipal Court in Zenica has returned ownership of the Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God to the Serbian Orthodox Church, reversing previous arrangements over the property’s status in the Bosnian city.

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—🎤🇧🇬 The singer DARA was chosen to represent Bulgaria in the 2026 Eurovision

➡️ This will be the first time after 3 years that Bulgaria will be participating in Eurovision, our source in the country reports.

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—🎤🇧🇬 UPDATE: After DARA was announced as the winner, some users on social media circulated screenshots and tables, allegedly from BNT’s own data, claiming that MONA topped the televote, Mihaela was second and DARA only third, according to our source in Bulgaria.

➡️ These were shared without verifiable source access (e.g., no direct database dump, no signed log from the telecom provider), and in several reports they are explicitly described as “unofficial data” or “fan spreadsheets”.

➡️ BNT has formally called the circulating tables and screenshots “fake news” and “incorrect interpretations” that do not reflect the actual result.

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#BREAKING | 🇫🇷 🇷🇺 — French President Emmanuel Macron's top diplomatic adviser, Emmanuel Bonne, held technical-level talks with Russian officials in Moscow on Tuesday, focused primarily on Ukraine.

The discussions were coordinated with Ukraine and key European allies, with Bonne meeting Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov.

This comes amid French efforts to maintain open channels with Moscow despite ongoing challenges in achieving a ceasefire.

(Source: Reuters)

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—🇷🇸❌🇦🇱🇽🇰🇭🇷 NEW: Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said he is “deeply concerned” about what he described as a military alliance between Tirana, Pristina, and Zagreb.

➡️ He warned that it is “worrying” because he has information about new plans and Pristina’s requests for additional weapons from Turkey and the United States.

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—❗️🗳🇪🇺 NEW: The US House Judiciary Committee’s Republican majority alleges in a new report that the European Commission interfered in at least eight election campaigns across six European countries between 2023 and 2025.

➡️ Allegedly, major tech platforms were pressured to remove or downgrade lawful political content ahead of national votes.

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—❗️🗳🇷🇴 UPDATE: Romanian nationalist figure Călin Georgescu has called for fresh elections after the Republican-led US House Judiciary Committee report accused the European Commission of interference in Romania’s 2024 presidential race.

➡️ The report says TikTok found no evidence of a coordinated Russian operation to boost Georgescu, contradicting the justification used to annul the first-round vote. he had won and fuelling his claim that the process was manipulated to sideline populist candidates.

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