A Reporter Returns to Kosovo, 15 Years Later (NYT)
Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this article, Carlotta Gall, a reporter in Pakistan and Afghanistan, shares the personal back story to her recent news analysis of how Kosovo has changed since she set eyes on it in 1999. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/insider/a-reporter-returns-to-kosovo-15-years-later.html?_r=0
Read More →How Kosovo Was Turned Into Fertile Ground for ISIS (NYT)
Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/world/europe/how-the-saudis-turned-kosovo-into-fertile-ground-for-isis.html
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 23 May
• Ruling coalition partners with differences on demarcation (Koha)
• Vetëvendosje announces new protest acts (Zeri)
• Tahiri: Association/Community, when Serbia fulfils some conditions (Zeri)
• Mustafa: We are on the way of establishing armed forces (Epoka)
• Stojanović: Serbian List continues to oppose armed forces (Koha)
• Selmanaj: The Constitutional Court should withdraw its decision (Epoka)
• Historians call for resignation of Constitutional Court President (Kosova Sot)
• How Kosovo was turned into fertile ground for ISIS (NYT/Koha)
International Experts Approve Kosovo-Montenegro Border Deal (AP/NYT)
Kosovo’s outgoing president, Ahtifete Jahjaga, says international experts have concluded that a border demarcation deal with Montenegro is in line with international standards. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/03/31/world/europe/ap-eu-kosovo-montenegro-border.html?_r=0
Read More →Unesco Rejects Kosovo Membership in a Victory for Serbia (NYT)
Unesco, the United Nations’ cultural agency, narrowly denied Kosovo membership on Monday, handing a sizable political victory to Serbia, which had fought a fierce battle against the bid for months. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/world/europe/unesco-rejects-kosovo-membership-in-a-victory-for-serbia.html?_r=0
Read More →Kosovo Signs Stabilization and Association Agreement With EU (The New York Times)
PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo is signing a stabilization and association agreement with the European Union, a historic milestone that will help the economic growth of one of Europe’s poorest countries. Tuesday’s signature in Strasbourg opens the way to eventual full membership into the EU, Kosovo’s main trading partner. European Integration Minister Bekim Collaku said the agreement […]
Read More →Serbia: Nine Get Suspended Sentences for Attacking U.S. Embassy in ’08 Riots (NYT)
A court in Serbia has sentenced nine defendants to suspended prison sentences for setting fire in 2008 to the American Embassy in Belgrade during riots over Kosovo’s independence. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/world/europe/serbia-nine-get-suspended-sentences-for-attacking-us-embassy-in-08-riots.html?_r=0
Read More →In Kosovo, a Thirst for Progress, and Beer, Too (NYT)
On weekends, Kosovo’s millennials dance to Smiths and New Order songs from the 1980s as if they were hearing them for the first time at the new Irish pub Miqt (facebook.com/MIQT.NET) in Pristina. The bar is by turns trendy and louche and hidden down one of the many bumpy, half-paved roads in Kosovo’s capital. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/travel/pristina-kosovo-beer.html […]
Read More →Kosovo Charges 5 People in Plot to Poison Water (NYT)
Five people were in custody in Kosovo on Sunday, suspected of a terrorist plot to contaminate the water supply in the capital, Pristina, after exhortations on recent videos released by the Islamic State to poison the country’s food and water supplies. Local news reports said that three people were arrested early Saturday morning while acting suspiciously […]
Read More →US Warns Kosovo of Consequences After Failed War Crimes Vote (NYT)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRISTINA, Kosovo — The United States says it won’t block Russia’s attempts to establish a U.N. tribunal to investigate allegations that Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian wartime leaders killed hundreds of Serbs civilians after the country’s lawmakers rejected amendments to the constitution to allow a Western-backed court deal with the claims. The U.S. Embassy […]
Read More →Macedonia to Hold Early Elections Amid Political Turmoil (The New York Times)
SKOPJE, Macedonia — Macedonia will hold early elections next April under a tentative deal to defuse a political crisis that has been rocking the country for months, a mediator said. The agreement was announced Tuesday after eight hours of negotiations among top political leaders. The mediator of the talks, Johannes Hahn, the European Union commissioner […]
Read More →Kosovars Who Fought for Land Are Now Eager to Leave (NYT)
STANOVC, Kosovo — The extended Cakaj family has built a few dozen homes here, along Tony Blair Street, between the Dubai supermarket and the French peacekeepers base, in a clannish faith that closeness would bring security. But recently the family of Kosovo Albanians has begun to splinter, as a disastrous economy, static politics and a […]
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