11 August 2021 Skopje – Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani said Wednesday that “unfortunately” news coming from Bulgaria is not encouraging and that political government should be formed to settle differences between Skopje and Sofia and unblock the EU integration process of North Macedonia. Skopje – The Ohrid Framework Agreement is the most successful international mediated treaty in the former Yugoslavia, Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani told reporters at Wednesday’s press conference. Tetovo – The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minster of Political Systems and Inter-Community Relations, Artan Grubi, said Wednesday in Tetovo that a concert to celebrate 20 years since the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement has been cancelled. Skopje — Parents sending kids back to school on Sept. 1 can expect one of three scenarios to play out, education authorities said Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Education’s playbook, the best case scenario is for students to attend classes in person, but what may also happen is for some students to stay virtual or for schools to adopt hybrid schedules this fall. Skopje – Ahead of this year’s local elections, slated for Oct. 17, voters are able to check their data in the electoral roll by visiting the State Electoral Commission’s site or going to izbirackispisok.gov.mk. Skopje, 11  — Three wildfires are still raging in North Macedonia, despite ongoing efforts to suppress the flames. The forest fire near ​the villages of Raovikj and Bukovikj in Skopje’s Saraj has reached the Jasen national preserve. The Krushje village fire headed for the Divlje village in Petrovec is also burning, as are blazes at Toplice, the Crisis Management Center’s Marija Milkova told a news conference Wednesday. Skopje – North Macedonia recorded 588 new cases out of 5,780 COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours. Skopje — Citizens showed increased interest in vaccination on Tuesday, when 14,928 of them were vaccinated against COVID-19 nationwide including the 8,202 people who received their first vaccine dose, the Ministry of Health said in a press release on Wednesday. Sofia – The National Assembly of Bulgaria will take a vote on Thursday morning on Prime Minister designate Plamen Nikolov’s decision to withdraw from the process of becoming government leader, GERB-UDF Floor Leader Dessislava Atanassova said on Wednesday, emerging from a meeting of the Presiding Council of the National Assembly. Warsaw – Poland‘s conservative coalition government collapsed on Wednesday following Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Gowin. Moscow – Two associates of jailed Russian dissident Alexei Navalny are under investigation for allegations of financing an anti-corruption organization that was subsequently designated an extremist organization, Russian officials said on Tuesday.