A sightseeing boat carrying dozens of Bulgarian tourists sank today in a lake on Macedonia’s western border, and at least 15 people drowned, police said.

The Macedonian government and ethnic Albanian leaders have resumed talks on a peaceful end to a conflict that threatens to develop into civil war.

Macedonian Government officials and ethnic Albanian leaders have gathered in the southern city of Ohrid to resume high-level peace talks aimed at ending a rebel insurgency in the north of the country.