Row over North Macedonia's name flares up again

North Macedonia's decades-long name dispute with Greece has flared up again, further jeopardising its path to EU membership.

Athens has warned its northern neighbour it will not ratify parts of a landmark 2018 agreement that had appeared to settle the row.

But the victory of nationalists in parliamentary and presidential elections in Skopje last week has enflamed the issue.

The VMRO-DPMNE party scored commanding victories, ousting the centre-left Social Democrats who struck the Prespa deal with Greece six years ago. Trouble was not far behind.

Post Office lawyer who oversaw Alan Bates case refusing to co-operate with inquiry

A FORMER top Post Office lawyer who oversaw Alan Bates’s High Court battle against the business is refusing to co-operate with the statutory inquiry.

Jane MacLeod, who was the organisation’s general counsel from 2015 to 2019, was listed to appear next month, but her name later disappeared from the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry schedule.

The Telegraph understands she is living in New Zealand and is refusing to appear in-person or by videolink to assist the inquiry.
While the inquiry has statutory powers, it cannot compel her to give evidence while she is abroad.

Adorable Bear Cub Saved by Locals in Greece

A three-month-old bear cub was saved by a local couple near Kozani in northern Greece after she was separated from her mother.

The little bear found refuge in the garden of Pavlos and Martha, who gave her temporary shelter, before they notified Kozani Forestry Service and “Arcturos,” a non-profit organization focusing on the protection of wildlife fauna and natural habitat.

Experts calmed down the terrified cub, giving it some food and water, and began searching for her mother in a wooded area near where she was found.

The cub was placed inside a makeshift structure, which could not escape, but it would be easy for the mother to get it out of there.

Unfortunately, this did not happen and so “Arctouros” picked up the bear again the next morning and took it to the Wildlife Reintroduction Center, where it will grow for a year and then it will try to re-integrate it into the wild.

Greece is currently home to an estimated population of 450 brown bears. The majority of these bears live in the mountainous regions of northern Greece, including the Pindos and Rhodope Mountains.