Macedonia's electoral commission says that crucial parliamentary elections have been halted for security reasons in an ethnic Albanian area in the north of the country.
Police added that at least three people were wounded in a shooting in an Albanian area of the Macedonian capital, Skopje. Violence and tension among the Albanian minority marred the run-up to the election, which is expected to be won by the centre-right party of Prime Minister Niklola Gruevski in a surge of nationalism after Greece blocked a NATO invitation to Macedonia in April in a 17-year row over the name it shares with a Greek province.
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