23 Oct 14

The University of Prishtina has said it will review its textbooks following an outcry over a Faculty of Law work that describes women rape victims as 'usually immoral'.
Nektar Zogjani
BIRN
Pristina

NGOs in Kosovo are demanding the recall of a university textbook that makes light of women victims of sexual violence.

Passages from the offending book, entitled “Kriminalistika” [“Criminology”], by retired Professor Vesel Latifi, refer to rape victims as “females who are easily fooled, careless, thoughtless, and immoral”.

22 Oct 14
For the sake of our own future, we Kosovo Albanians need to liberate ourselves from a destructive obsession with Serbia.

Mikra Krasniqi

Pristina

22 Oct 14
New momentum is needed in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue after the timeout caused by elections in both countries, a report by Kosovo and Slovak think tanks suggests.

Nektar Zogjani
BIRN
Pristina

A new joint report by two think tanks has urged the governments of Serbia and Kosovo to revitalise the stalled EU-led dialogue between the two countries.

The report is the work of the Pristina-based Democracy for Development, D4D, and its partner from Slovakia, the Central European Policy Institute, CEPI.

22 Oct 14
Former high-ranking Serbian interior ministry official Vlastimir Djordjevic will be sent to a German prison to serve his 18-year sentence for war crimes against Albanians in Kosovo.

Marija Ristic
BIRN
Belgrade

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia announced on Tuesday that Djordjevic, who was convicted of the murder and persecution of Kosovo Albanians during the conflict in 1999, will be transferred to Germany.

17 Oct 14

Kosovo must find ways to tempt its large diaspora community into investing its cash in industry back home.
Mikra Krasniqi
Pristina

Kosovo received about 457 million euros in remittances from emigrants in 2012. The sum amounted to over 9 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product, GDP, and the largest form of foreign financing.

16 Oct 14
The chaotic scenes at the Serbia-Albania football match, which had to be called off, mark an inauspicious prologue to the Albanian Prime Minister’s visit to Belgrade.

Besar Likmeta, Gordana Andric
BIRN

Tirana, Belgrade
Edi Rama’s long planned official visit to Serbia next week - the first such visit by an Albanian Prime Minister to Belgrade in decades - will take place in a difficult atmosphere following the bizarre scenes at Tuesday’s Euro 2016 qualifier.

15 Oct 14
UEFA reaction awaited after Serbia-Albania Euro 2016 qualifier in Belgrade had to be abandoned amid fights on the pitch.

BIRN
Belgrade, Tirana, Pristina, Skopje, Podgorica

The first football match ever held between Albania and Serbia in decades ended in chaos and violence in the 41st minute, after a small drone with a banner embossed with an Albanian flag flew over the pitch and Serbian fans erupted.

15 Oct 14
Albania, Serbia Euro 2016 qualifier was suspended after a drone flying Albanian flag over the pitch sparked a brawl between the teams.
BIRN
Belgrade

First football match between Albania and Serbia in decades was halted and abandoned in 41st minute at 0:0, after a clash between the teams.

The match was interrupted when a drone carrying banned Albanian flag was flown over the pitch.

Serbian player Stefan Mitrovic pulled down the flag, which led to brawl between the teams, as Albanian players tried to take the flag from Mitrovic.

13 Oct 14
The remains of the 12 ethnic Albanians killed by Belgrade’s forces during the late 1990s war and buried in a mass grave near the Serbian town of Raska were repatriated to Kosovo.

Petrit Collaku
BIRN
Pristina
Exhumation at the Rudnica quarry.

The remains were handed over at the Merdare border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia on Monday after being exhumed from a mass grave at the Rudnica quarry near Raska, not far from the border, where more than 40 bodies have been found.

13 Oct 14
Politicians in Pristina and Belgrade condemned the spraypainting of Islamic State and Kosovo Liberation Army graffiti on the medieval Serbian Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani.

Nektar Zogjani
BIRN
Pristina
Some of the graffiti on the monastery's land.

Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga condemned the vandalism at the 14th century monastery in western Kosovo, a UNESCO world heritage site which has long been the focus for disputes between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians.