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Prominent Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic killed in drive-by shooting (The Telegraph)

By   /  16/01/2018  /  International  /  No Comments

Leading Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic was killed on Tuesday in a drive-by shooting as he arrived at his party headquarters, his lawyer and a party official said. “I am informed that he was shot dead on the spot and efforts to revive him at Mitrovica hospital were unsuccessful,” lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic told AFP. Ivanovic, […]

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Prince Charles pays respects to Kosovo’s missing on final day of Balkan tour (The Telegraph)

By   /  21/03/2016  /  International  /  No Comments

Prince Charles on Saturday paid tribute to those missing since the 1998-1999 Kosovo war and to NATO-led peacekeepers killed there, on the last leg of a week-long Balkans tour. Accompanied by the Duchess of Cornwall, Charles laid a wreath at the monument to missing persons and joined a memorial ceremony also attended by Kosovo’s outgoing […]

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Kosovo opposition continue to disrupt parliament by firing tear gas (The Telegraph)

By   /  22/02/2016  /  International  /  No Comments

Despite security checks at the entrance on Friday, Kosovo opposition lawmakers used tear gas again to prevent work in the Parliament and to pressure the government into renouncing deals with Serbia and Montenegro. The session, delayed for about 50 minutes, was temporarily suspended on Friday after a tear gas canister was launched from opposition lawmakers’ seats. A […]

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Migrant crisis: Balkans ‘part of the solution, not the problem’ (The Telegraph)

By   /  28/08/2015  /  International  /  No Comments

Kosovo should be considered as part of the solution to the migrant crisis engulfing Europe rather than part of the problem, the country’s foreign minister has said, as leaders from the Western Balkans meet in Vienna to deal with the problem. Western Balkan countries are facing “huge challenges” handling tens of thousands of migrants trying to get to the […]

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Inside Kacanik, Kosovo’s jihadist capital (The Telegraph)

By   /  24/08/2015  /  International  /  No Comments

Nestling in a wooded valley that its citizens laid their lives down to defend, the town of Kacanik in southern Kosovo is fiercely proud of its war dead. Well-kept cemeteries include nearly 100 victims of Serb-led ethnic cleansing in 1999, while in the town centre, a statue clutching an RPG honours fallen members of Brigade 162 […]

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Exodus from Kosovo: Why thousands have left the Balkans (The Telegraph)

By   /  23/02/2015  /  International  /  No Comments

Kosovo has lost an estimated 50,000 people in the past two months ­ most of them on buses bound eventually for Germany. What is going on in this tiny corner of the Balkans? Nysret Ismaili surveys the small group of children playing on the flinty school football pitch, set in the plains below Kosovo’s rolling […]

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