The owner of Kosovo’s Medicus clinic and his head anaesthetist were convicted of human trafficking and organised crime after a court found they carried out illegal transplant operations to sell kidneys to patients.

Serbia and Kosovo have become refuges for each other’s criminals and fugitives, allowing suspected murderers, drug dealers and organ-traffickers to evade justice by crossing the border.

From pledges that it is his job not to give away Kosovo to more recent statements that Kosovo's independence is a done deal, Serbia's President has changed his stance on the former province markedly since 2012.

After vowing that the task of his Serbian Progressive Party was not to "hand over" Kosovo if it came to power, until more recent statements that Serbia's own wrong policies had "sealed" Kosovo independence, Aleksandar Vucic’s rhetoric on Kosovo has zig-zagged markedly over the years.

Kosovo's Ministry of Justice and Islamic Community have signed an agreement on engaging imams to help radicalised Muslims who have been arrested or jailed for terrorism.

Vetevendosje defector and Pristina Mayor Shpend Ahmeti has been elected the new leader of the Social Democratic Party – a party formed back in the 1990s, which has enjoyed little success since then.

As the EU Rule-of-Law Mission in Kosovo, EULEX, enters the final month of its mandate, the Pristina authorities said they will allow another mission, but with a scaled-down monitoring and advisory role.

Worsening relations between Serbia and Kosovo are affecting more and more sporting events, preventing matches that took place without problems in the past.