Albanian Language Media: • UNMIK: Closure of Serbian post offices negatively affects life of Serb community in Kosovo (Albanian Post, ekonomia online) • KFOR: Any decision on opening Iber Bridge must take place within framework of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (Klan) • British Embassy: We are disappointed with government’s action (Nacionale) • Bislimi: EU should focus on Serbia's rejection of Basic Agreement (media) • Serbian Post van not allowed to enter Kosovo (media) • Svecla, Krasniqi and Durmishi visit Iber Bridge, test it before opening (media) • Government takes new step: nearly €10,000 allocated for testing Iber Bridge (Nacionale) • Kurti meets Ardita Sinani, offers close institutional cooperation in service of Presheva (Klan) • Alsat: Osmani on two other occasions refused checking of personal luggage at Skopje Airport (Klan) Serbian Language Media: • UNMIK head reiterates concern over unilateral actions in Kosovo (Tanjug, media) • KFOR will respond to security development on Ibar bridge (N1) • Vucic: Kurti is provoking, wants to turn us against NATO before the elections in the USA (Kosovo Online) • Vucevic: Kurti wants Kosovo without Serbs, int'l community tacitly allowing that (Tanjug, media) • A protest today in North Mitrovica due to Pristina's announcements about the opening of the Ibar bridge (Kosovo Online, B92, Tanjug) • Elshani for VoA: The case of the closure of the Post of Serbia branches in the domain of economic crime (KiM radio, VOA) International Media: • Alleged large-scale coin forger arrested in Kosovo due to Eurojust support (eurojust.europa.eu)

Albanian Language Media: • Stano: Another example of unilateral actions of Kurti administration (Reporteri) • Kusari-Lila: QUINT ambassadors informed about opening of Iber Bridge (ekonomia) • Presidency: Manner incident in Skopje was handled at Kurti-Mickoski conference, regrettable (media) • Rohde: Unilateral and uncoordinated steps endanger Kosovo's application for EU membership (Klan) • Another attempt of LVV to bring opposition into debate about Iber Bridge (Express) • Haxhiu on wounded woman in Fushe Kosove: Negligence of justice institutions (RTK) • EUROPOL: Person arrested in Kosovo for counterfeit money, employee of North Macedonian MIA (Kosovapress) Serbian Language Media: • The Kosovo police stopped a Serbian Post van with letters on Jarinje (N1, FoNet) • Vucic met Konrad: The international community must react to ensure the safety of Serbs (Tanjug, media) • Petkovic on the EU announcement; the opening of jobs for Serbs in Kosovo (RTS, Tanjug TV) • Grenell: US has tools to prevent escalation, tough letters don't work against Kurti (Tanjug, Blic) • Requests submitted for the abolition of custody of arrested Serbs from Kosovo Pomoravlje (RTV Puls, KiM radio) • Elek: New jobs are an incentive for Serbs to stay and proof that Serbia is always with its people (Kosovo Online, TV Most) • Selimi: The Kosovo Government is closing Post offices due to upcoming elections (Kosovo Online)

Albanian Language Media: • Police action in the north for economic activity without a licence (media) • ARKEP: Operation of Post of Serbia was intended to be resolved in dialogue, but until today there has been no initiative to start talks (Albanian Post) • EU: Unilateral and uncoordinated decision to close branches of Post of Serbia in the north (RFE) • The U.S. deeply disappointed with Kosovo government for closing branches of • Haradinaj: Kurti is deeply involved in Serbia's agenda (Koha) • Post of Serbia in the north (media) • Haxhiu meets her counterpart from North Macedonia (ekonomia) • Afrim Gashi's head of security suspended, risks prison for more than three years (media) • Abdixhiku visits the miners of Trepca, supports their demands (ekonomia) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Kurti's behaviour an attempt to provoke a war conflict, the EU announcement shameful (Kosovo Online) • Stano: Closing the branches of the Post of Serbia is a violation of the agreement from the dialogue (Kosovo Online) • All 9 facilities used by Serbian Post in Northern Kosovo Closed (KoSSev) • Petkovic: Kurti's raid of post offices direct provocation of war conflict (Tanjug) • Savo Manojlovic: If Vucic protected the citizens as he protects Rio Tinto, there would be no persecution of Serbs in Kosovo (Danas, NMagazin,KiM radio) • New DSS: Closure of post offices in Kosovo, continuation of terror, with the tacit permission of the West (NMagazin, Beta) • Suspension and criminal charges against a security member of the President of the Assembly of N. Macedonia due to the incident at the airport (KoSSev) International Media: • Vjosa Osmani did not scold Mickoski and Kurti, so that such incidents do not happen again (slobodenpecat.mk)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti travels to Skopje, meets Prime Minister Mickoski (media) • Mexhiti after meeting with Kurti: We discussed strengthening cooperation (Albanian Post) • Milanovic: Allies' support for Kosovo has faded (media) • LVV: Iber Bridge must be opened, there is no argument to remain closed (Koha) • LVV: Consultations on election date will continue (Koha) • Hoti: This mandate will end with complete failure in capital investments (RTK) • Klinaku: There is no need for veterans to go to Serbia (media) • Death of woman from Gracanica, a month of detention for her husband (Kallxo) Serbian Language Media: • The Kosovo Police entered all the Post Offices of Serbia in the North (KoSSev) • Protest of hundreds of Serbs in Pasjane due to the recent arrest of five compatriots (KiM radio, medijacentar.info, Radio Mitrovica sever, media) • What is controversial about the arrest of five Serbs from Kosovo Pomoravlje for alleged war crimes? (Danas, TV Most, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Fatherland Movement: More than 50 Serbs in Pristina prisons for alleged war crimes (Beta, Danas) • A few days after the Vjosa Osmani incident, Kurti with ministers in North Macedonia (Danas, KoSSev) • Vacancy announcement for recruitment of new members of Kosovo police: Especially for the Serbian community (N1) International: • The target is training artificial intelligence on the data of Balkan citizens without notification (en.vijesti.me) • Yugoslav Socialist Artist’s Retrospective Recalls Lost Era of Defiance and Hope (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti today in Skopje to meet PM Mickoski and government cabinet (Klan) • Osmani: "Sinjska Alka", event that honors heroic resistance of Croatian soldiers (media) • Fetai meets Gervalla after incident with Osmani in Skopje (media) • Five suspects arrested for war crimes against Albanian civilian victims (media) • About five thousand citizens converted their driver's licences to RKS (RTK) • Albanians of the Valley warn of protest due to passivisation of their addresses (RTK) • Reactions on murder of woman in Gracanica: One less woman, one more murderer! (RTK) Serbian Language Media: • Kosovo Authorities Arrest Five Serbs in War Crimes Probe, Sparking Outcry from Serbian Officials (KoSSev, media) • “The Diocese of Raška and Prizren Deeply Concerned About Recent Arrests of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and the Deterioration of Interethnic Relations” (eparhija-prizren.com) • Protest today in Pasjane due to the arrest of Serbs (Kosovo Online) • Lawyers: No reasonable doubt that the arrested Serbs committed the criminal offenses they are charged with (Kosovo Online) • Bocan-Kharchenko: Kurti carrying out terror in Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti, Kosovo Online) • Ristanovic: Gazivode is the legacy of the SFRY, it was not built with Kosovo's funds (Kosovo Online) International Media: • Kosovo’s president involved in Macedonian airport scuffle, sparking diplomatic row (politico.eu)

Albanian Language Media: • Hovenier: We do not support any change of the status of the bridge (Klan) • Government: Iber Bridge must be opened; it is at service of everyone and against no one (Klan) • Rasic: All parties should avoid unilateral actions (RTK) • Kurti: Government will not stop supporting Kosovo Police (media) • Explosion in the yard of a house in the north, no one injured (Telegrafi) • Political parties in North Macedonia react to airport incident with Kosovo President (media) Serbian Language Media: • Quint after meeting with Kurti: We informed him that we do not support any changes in the current status of the bridge on the Ibar (KoSSev) • Kosovo President refuses security check at Skopje Airport (N1, media) • The explosion took place last night in the yard of a private house in Ugljare village (KoSSev) • Canaj: Both Pristina and Belgrade should focus on the lives of citizens (Kosovo Online) • M.Z. from Donja Gusterica village died because of severe injuries inflicted by her husband (KiM radio, medijacentar.info, Kosovo Online, KoSSev) • Vucic welcomed Siljanovska Davkova in the Prohor Pcinjski monastery (Kosovo Online, media) International: • TAV Macedonia: We categorically reject the allegations that our employee tried to take Vjosa Osmani's phone (slobodenpecat.mk)

Albanian Language Media: • Stano: Opening the bridge over Iber river is a matter of dialogue (RTK) • Osmani to Stano: Issue of the bridge should not be topic of dialogue in any way (RTK) • Osmani stopped by North Macedonian authorities at airport, an attempt to take her phone was made (media) • North Macedonian MIA reacts after incident with President Osmani (RTK) • MFA: We are gathering information about the Osmani incident (Koha) • Skopje Airport reacts after incident with president (RTK) • Bislimi meets North Macedonia’s Deputy PM (RTK) • Musliu: Revealing KIA officials, Risk to their operations (RTK) • Haradinaj on elections: Let us shorten Kosovo's desperate situation (media) • Miners to Government: We should not be held responsible for management of enterprise (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Increase in pensions before January, a significant increase in salaries for educators (Radio Mitrovica sever, Tanjug, media) • EU reiterates: Decision to open bridge over Ibar should be part of dialogue (Beta, N1, media) • Former KLA member Blerim Ramadani transferred to house arrest (Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio) • KAP: The pumps in the north were not leased to EXFIS, we are investigating the case (Kosovo Online) International Media: • 15 arrested in crack-down on high-profile Albanian criminal network (Europol.europa.eu) • Kosovo Miners’ Strike Over Unpaid Wages Enters Fourth Week (Prishtina Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • Government: Financial support for "Trepca" depends on promise to resume increase in production (Koha) • Gervalla appoints Nita Shala as Kosovo's ambassador to Italy (RTK) • Members of KIA Supervisory Committee met director Petrit Ajeti (RTK) • Kurti convenes Security Council, discuss fires and traffic safety (Koha) • LVV MP asks Osmani: On what grounds did you not allow Konjufca to replace Kurti in the meeting? (Reporteri) • Abdixhiku asks public actors to boycott RTK (Koha) • FOL: Government has implemented 33% of 147 activities (media) Serbian Language Media: • On the remains of the Dolac monastery near Klina: Albanians erase the traces of the sanctuary (KiM radio, Politika) • Petkovic: Unlawful ban of dinar in Kosovo, the state will continue with regular payments (Tanjug, RTS) • Residents of central Kosovo half a year without the dinar: We struggle to function, this is a crime (Kosovo Online) • North Mitrovica: In addition to the ban on dinars, residents also worried about the shortage of certain products (Kosovo Online) • Residents of Strpce: Without the dinar, life hard for both the people and the merchants (Kosovo Online) • A forest owned by Serbs burned down in Susica, they suspect arson (KoSSev, KiM radio, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Borrell condemned the attacks by bots from Kosovo on Djordje Bojovic, Viola von Cramon's assistant (NMagazin, Beta)

Albanian Language Media: • Osmani: Date of regular elections will be announced after some analysis (RTK) • Kurti called for removal of EU measures against Kosovo (media) • Osmani: Responsibility must be demanded for not filing indictment against Radoicic (Koha) • Osmani talks with De Rio about security issues and removal of EU measures (RTK) • Svecla meets with North Macedonian counterpart, talk about illegal migration (RTK) • Kusari-Lila disagrees with opposition about January 26, mentions other dates (RTK) • Ahmetxhekaj: Kurti invited me to his office, wanted change in management of RTK (Klan) Serbian Language Media: • Djuric met Latvian FM in Riga (Tanjug) • Petkovic receives farewell visit from OSCE ambassador in Kosovo (Tanjug, RTS) • Odalovic: Kurti does not care about the missing, Albanians or Serbs (Kosovo Online) • North Mitrovica Municipality: Allegations of Misconduct and Non-Compliance (KoSSev) • YIHR and Kosovan Police Remove Offensive Graffiti in Gojbulja (KoSSev, N1) • Radio Borzani reporter denied access to meeting in Strpce amid dispute over credentials (KoSSev) • Census results and economy: Causes and consequences of labor force outflow from Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Serbian parliament passes declaration on rights and joint future of Serbs (Tanjug, media) International Media: • Serbia, Djuric to Nova: "Top priority for EU membership, but with equal rights" (agenzianova.com) • Advocates sound alarm over Kosovo’s new media law (VoA) • The Dua Lipa festival aiming to change Kosovo’s image (BBC) • Political Parties In Kosovo Seek Date For 2025 Election (RFE) • Two More Podiums: Paris 2024 Olympics Bring More Joy to Kosovo Athletes (Prishtina Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: During the war in Kosovo, Serbia's strategy was to hide the crime (RTK) • Election date to be known today? Osmani to meet leaders of political parties in afternoon (Telegrafi) • Bislimi: Cooperation with Sinani will be inseparable (RTK) • KIJ: Kurti and Bislimi did not have proactive approach to report to Assembly about dialogue (Klan) • UK ambassador congratulates "Sunny Hill" team for dealing with global issue of violence against women (Klan) • Haradinaj: In my time, Radoicic fled from Kosovo, in Kurti's time, he became a factor (ekonomia) • IRI: Kosovars mostly watch television to get information (Klan) Serbian Language Media: • Petkovic: UNESCO's objective assessment about the danger of Serbian monasteries in Kosovo (NMagazin, Beta, Kosovo Online, Kurir) • Milivojevic: From words to move to deeds, A/CSM should be the first and previous issue (RTS) • Transfer of Command at KFOR RC-WEST (N1) • A Serbian citizen arrested at Jarinje on suspicion of possessing forged Kosovo documents (N1, KoSSev, NMagazin) • SNS official says early elections possible (N1, Beta, TV Pink) Opinion: • Under Rama, Albania is failing on almost every score (Balkan Insight) International: • Serbia: Fresh protests threaten EU-backed lithium mining plan (euronews.com) • Balkan Countries Turn Blind Eye to Growing Loneliness (Balkan Insight)