Latest Yugoslavia News

Eriksen scores in Denmark's 1-1 draw with Slovenia at Euro 2024, 3 years after his onfield collapse

Jun. 16, 2024 18:45 PM EDT

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — For Christian Eriksen, Denmark’s opening game at the European Championship was a much happier occasion this time. The Manchester United midfielder scored the opening goal in a 1-1 draw with Slovenia on Sunday. It was his first match at the Euros since...

Ukrainian winemakers visit California's Napa Valley to learn how to heal war-ravaged vineyards

Jun. 13, 2024 14:05 PM EDT

RUTHERFORD, Calif. (AP) — As the head of an association of winemakers in southern Ukraine, Georgiy Molchanov knows a lot about how to cultivate grapes; not so much how to grow them amid undetonated mines. But that was the situation he found himself in after a Russian rocket dropped...

Another surprise? Europe’s biggest soccer show to begin in Germany and as usual it’s unpredictable

Jun. 10, 2024 04:41 AM EDT

A returning Cristiano Ronaldo, a rampant Kylian Mbappé and a resurgent Germany. Throw in a Harry Kane-powered England and defending champion Italy and Euro 2024 is wide open. That’s without mentioning three-time winner Spain. The unpredictability of...

North Macedonia's new president reignites a spat with Greece at her inauguration ceremony

May. 12, 2024 11:24 AM EDT

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova was sworn as the first female president of North Macedonia on Sunday and immediately reignited a diplomatic spat with neighboring Greece. At the ceremony in the country’s parliament, Siljanovska-Davkova referred to her...

North Macedonia to elect president after campaign focused on hot-button issue of EU membership

Apr. 23, 2024 01:07 AM EDT

SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Voters go to the polls in North Macedonia this week for the first round of the presidential election — the seventh such vote since the small landlocked Balkan country gained independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991. Seven candidates are vying...