Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic has been jailed for nine years for war crimes, convicted of ordering the murder of ethnic Albanians in Mitrovica in April 1999.

Ivanovic, a former Serbian government official and head of a Kosovo Serb political party called Freedom, Democracy, Justice, was convicted of war crimes at the Basic Court in Mitrovica on Thursday and jailed for nine years.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/oliver-ivanovic-kosovo-serb-war-crimes-verdict-01-21-2016

Courts have repeatedly failed to safeguard Kosovo war crimes witnesses from threats and violence - now the new Hague-based special court must protect those who testify against powerful defendants.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/can-the-new-kosovo-court-keep-witnesses-safe--01-20-2016

The two Kosovo citizens, who claim to have only spent a short time in Syria because they refused to shift allegiance from the Al Nusra militant group to ISIS, pleaded guilty at a Pristina court.

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A group of 40 Albanians, supporters of the Kosovo opposition who were turned back by border police on the way to a protest in Pristina last week, have alleged they were also assaulted.

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The Pristina Basic Prosecution said on Wednesday that Hasani had been indicted for falsification of an official document and abuse of office. 

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/former-constitutional-court-president-indicted-for-fraud-abuse-of-office-01-13-2016

Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, told BIRN Pristina “plans to discuss the border demarcation between the two states, Kosovo and Serbia, in 2016”. 

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-aims-border-demarcation-with-serbia-in-2016-01-13-2016

The ruling that parts of the Brussels-brokered agreements with Serbia were unconstitutional swelled the ranks of opposition protesters who caused unrest on the streets of Pristina on Saturday, experts suggested. 

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-opposition-swell-ranks-against-brussels-agreements-01-12-2016

Several towns and key highways in the country are partly under water after heavy showers melted the snow, causing floods.

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The State Prosecutor has ordered institutions to enforce an existing law and notify people if they have been placed under police or prosecution surveillance.

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A short comic film about two KLA commanders has attracted condemnation and even death threats in a country where the independence struggle remains a sensitive topic.

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