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Kosovo opposition protests turn violent in Pristina (BBC News)

By   /  11/01/2016  /  International  /  No Comments

Anti-government protesters in Kosovo’s capital Pristina have clashed with police at a demonstration against an agreement with the Serb minority. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35271907

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Why Kosovo’s opposition MPs are tear-gassing parliament (BBC News)

By   /  03/12/2015  /  International  /  No Comments

Pristina may host one of the world’s youngest national assemblies – Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence in 2008 – but in recent weeks it has been a global leader in parliamentary dysfunction. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34986909

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Kosovo police raid opposition MP Albin Kurti’s flat (BBC News)

By   /  18/11/2015  /  International  /  No Comments

Police in Kosovo have tried to arrest opposition MP Albin Kurti, who has led a series of protests in parliament against agreements made with Serbia. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34854678

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A “Great Fear” in Kosovo (Huffington Post)

By   /  15/04/2015  /  International  /  No Comments

The global Muslim community is suffering a deep crisis. The failure of the “Arab Spring” led, most prominently, to horrendous bloodletting in Syria. In this carnage, both the Damascus dictatorship of Bashar Al-Assad, which is supported by the Iranian regime, and the ultra-Wahhabi “Islamic State” that opposes the civil resistance to Bashar, are guilty. Syrian, […]

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Kosovo EU bribe claims face independent inquiry (BBC News)

By   /  06/11/2014  /  International  /  No Comments

5 November 2014 Last updated at 12:38 GMT The EU says an independent legal expert will investigate alleged corruption in the EU’s rule of law mission in Kosovo. The mission, called Eulex, is mired in allegations that some of its officials took bribes in return for dropping three cases involving organised crime. A British prosecutor […]

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Kosovo ‘jihad’ boy home from Syria after secret operation (BBC News)

By   /  16/10/2014  /  International  /  No Comments

16 October 2014 Last updated at 11:08 GMT An eight-year-old boy from Kosovo has been reunited with his mother after his jihadist father kept him for five months in Syria. Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, said the country’s intelligence agency had found and rescued Erion Abazi with help from Turkish intelligence. It was a “complicated […]

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The boy from Kosovo who grew up to be a suicide bomber (BBC News)

By   /  08/10/2014  /  International  /  No Comments

7 October 2014 Last updated at 23:27 GMT By Linda Pressly BBC World Service, Kosovo In Kosovo it used to be the case that families were culturally Muslim, but rarely devout believers. Recently though some young people have become radicalised. Up to 200 are thought to be fighting in Syria and Iraq causing heartbreak for […]

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Kosovo ‘imams held’ in raids on Islamic State recruitment (BBC News)

By   /  18/09/2014  /  International  /  No Comments

Among them are several imams, including the head of Pristina’s Grand Mosque, Shefqet Krasniqi, local reports say. Some 200 Kosovo Albanians have gone to fight in Syria and several have died. IS is thought to have attracted hundreds of European recruits in its campaign to set up a “caliphate” in broad swathes of Syria and […]

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EU urges ‘war crimes’ trial of Kosovo ex-commanders (BBC News)

By   /  29/07/2014  /  International  /  No Comments

An EU war crimes prosecutor says that some former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) should face charges of crimes against humanity. Clint Williamson has spent three years investigating allegations of atrocities in the late 1990s, when Kosovo Albanian guerrillas were fighting Serb forces. He said elements in the KLA murdered ethnic Serbs and […]

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Clashes in Kosovo’s Mitrovica over bridge blockade (BBC News)

By   /  23/06/2014  /  International  /  No Comments

23 June 2014 Last updated at 00:27 GMT Demonstrators in Kosovo have clashed with police at a bridge between the local Albanian and Serb communities in the northern city of Mitrovica. Police used tear gas against hundreds of ethnic Albanian protesters, who threw rocks and set police cars alight. Some officers and civilians were hurt. […]

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Kosovo PM claims election victory amid low turnout (BBC News)

By   /  09/06/2014  /  International  /  No Comments

8 June 2014 Last updated at 22:04 GMT Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has claimed victory in national elections marked by a low turnout. The former rebel chief’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) is ahead by three percentage points, according to preliminary results. For the first time since Kosovo’s self-declared independence in 2008, Serbia encouraged […]

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