Lawyers for members of the Kosovo Liberation Army’s ‘Drenica Group’ cell, accused of assaulting prisoners during the late 1990s war, told a court hearing that their clients were not guilty.
Edona Peci, Behar Mustafa
BIRN
Pristina, Mitrovica
Sylejman Selimi.
If Kosovo is serious about its European future, whoever forms the next government faces a big job to improve its justice system and human rights record.
Lydia Gall
Budapest
Kosovo took another step toward this European future on June 8, with its second general election since declaring independence.
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and his main rival, Ramush Haradinaj, remain in deadock over who has the right to form a new government following inconclusive general elections.
Pristina
Prime Minister Thaci has said that his governing Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, has a right to form the next government of Kosovo, as it won the most votes in the recent general election.
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo claimed victory in parliamentary polls to secure a third term in office despite a low turnout at Sunday’s vote.
Pristina
Thaci said after polls closed that his Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, had won the elections, although the Central Election Commission reported a turnout of only 43.2 per cent.
With elections approaching on Sunday, authorities in Pristina have increased measures in order to prevent poll fraud.
Pristina
With general elections looming in Kosovo on Sunday, the authorities in Pristina have increased measures in order to prevent fraud or intimidation at polling stations.
Serbian experts will examine the site of another suspected mass grave near the town of Raska, where the bodies of 37 Kosovo Albanians killed during wartime have already been found.
Marija Ristic
BIRN
Belgrade
The Serbian war crimes prosecution on Thursday ordered the examination of an additional site near the Rudnica quarry in southern Serbia, where a mass grave containing the bodies of Kosovo Albanians killed during the 1990s war was found in December.
After days of uncertainty, the Srpska Lista has opted at the 11th hour to take part in the election campaign.
Valerie Hopkins
BIRN
Mitrovica
The southern half of Mitrovica is full of election billboards promising “new turns,” “new directions” and claiming that the country’s current leaders deserve “new missions.” Campaign leaflets are littered around the streets.
While voters have a range of parties to choose from on June 8, the ideological differences between most of them appear slim.
Arijeta Lajka, Edona Peci
BIRN
Pristina
Kosovo’s nearly 1.8 registered voters have 30 parties to choose from in the June 8 elections, but when it comes to ideologies, their choices are more limited.
Four of the five largest political parties are campaigning with strikingly similar programs.
Kosovo leaders will be competing aggressively for votes in the last few days of the election campaign, partly because the outcome is unusually unpredictable.
Pristina
The shortest election campaign in Kosovo's history will end on Friday midnight - but experts warn that the battle for power is likely to become harsher in the final days.
The North City Jazz and Blues festival, held near Mitrovica in Kosovo, is seeking to change the image of a town known nowadays mostly for ethnic conflict.
Birn Mitrovica
Two days of jazz and blues music provided a welcome break for the people of Zvecan, a mostly Serbian town in the north of Kosovo. The twelfth edition of the North City Festival took place there from May 30 to 31.