Serbian Accusation Lingers Of Link Between NATO Bombing, Health Woes (RFE, RL)
Serbian lawmaker Darko Laketic, head of the Commission for Researching Health Impacts of the NATO Bombing, looks at the data and draws a clear line between the Western security alliance’s 78-day bombing campaign and a rise in cancer-related disease in children born in the subsequent two decades. See at:https://www.rferl.org/a/serbian-accusation-lingers-of-link-between-nato-bombing-health-woes/29841402.html
Read More →Preliminary Results Show Need For Mayoral Runoffs In Kosovo (RFERL)
Preliminary results in Kosovo’s municipal elections indicate that runoffs will be needed to decide the winning candidates in mayoral races in major cities throughout the Balkan country. With about 47 percent of precincts reporting in the capital, Pristina, the Central Election Commission (CEC) said incumbent Mayor Shpend Ahmeti of the Self-Determination Party, also known as […]
Read More →Kosovo Charges Nine With Plotting Terror Attacks In Balkans (RFE/RL)
Kosovo charged nine men on June 15 with plotting terror attacks in Kosovo and at a World Cup soccer match between Israel and Albania last year. The men were among 19 detained in a series of arrests in Kosovo and neighboring Albania and Macedonia ahead of the game in November, which was moved for security […]
Read More →Kosovar Court Jails Seven For Alleged Recruiting, Fighting For Islamic State (RFE)
A court in Kosovo said it sentenced seven ethnic Albanians to jail for fighting for the Islamic State and recruiting on behalf of the militant group. http://www.rferl.org/a/kosovo-jails-seven-alleged-recruiting-fighting-islamic-state-/28244749.html
Read More →Kosovo’s President Accuses Belgrade Of ‘Provocation’ Over Train (RFE)
Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci has accused Belgrade of seeking to provoke a crisis by sending a Serbian train painted with the slogan “Kosovo is Serbia” toward Kosovo, halting it only at the last moment before it entered the country. http://www.rferl.org/a/kosovo-thaci-serbia-train-provocation/28237112.html
Read More →Serbia, Kosovo Train Crisis Just Latest Test Of Mettle (RFE)
On January 15, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic sounded like a leader whose country had just averted mortal danger. “If I had not asked the Serbs to stop the train, we would have had war,” Vucic told Belgrade’s Pink TV, reflecting on the “train crisis” that threatened to disrupt the fragile peace between Serbia and […]
Read More →EU: Western Balkans Single Market Possible In Two-Three Years (RFE/RL)
The EU’s enlargement commissioner, Johannes Hahn, says that a Western Balkans single market can be possible within two or three years if there is political will in the region. http://www.rferl.org/a/eu-western-balkans-single-marke-2-3-years/28105943.html
Read More →Serbian Magazine Retracts Article Saying Trump Apologized For NATO Bombing (RFE/RL)
A Serbian magazine has retracted an article saying U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump apologized for the U.S. role in the 1999 bombing of former Yugoslavia. The Serbian weekly Nedeljnik said it likely was duped into publishing a now-discredited interview with a Trump campaign official in which Trump also supposedly pledged a new policy toward […]
Read More →Plane Headed To Kosovo Crashes In Macedonia, Killing Six (RFE/RL)
A private plane traveling to Kosovo from the north Italian city of Treviso crashed in a mountainous region of Macedonia, killing all six people onboard. http://www.rferl.org/content/plane-headed-kosovo-pristina-crashes-macedonia-skopje-six-dead/27971445.html
Read More →EU Parliament Committee OKs Georgia Visa Deal, Kosovo Deal In Limbo (RFE/RL)
The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee voted on September 5 for visa liberalization for Georgia to the EU’s Schengen zone. It also voted in favor of similar move for Kosovo but against the proposal to let the European Parliament negotiate this visa-liberalization deal with other EU institutions, leaving the deal for Pristina in limbo. http://www.rferl.org/content/georgia-kosovo-european-parliament-visa-deals/27968614.html
Read More →Kosovo Says No New Cases Of Citizens Joining IS In Iraq, Syria (Radio Free Europe)
Kosovar Interior Minister Skender Hyseni says there have been no recorded cases in the past year of citizens joining the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq. “It is now a year that we did not record any case of the departure of the citizens of Kosovo in foreign wars,” Hyseni said on August […]
Read More →Biden Restates U.S. Commitment To Kosovo (RFE/RL)
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has pledged that the United States will “stand by the people of Kosovo,” adding that “if you succeed, the region will succeed.” Biden was speaking in the Kosovar capital, Pristina, on August 17 following meetings with Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci and Prime Minister Isa Mustafa. Biden urged Kosovo to make […]
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