Germany’s armed forces are to continue their deployments in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of international missions, lawmakers agreed on Thursday. The Bundestag, as Germany’s parliament is known, extended the mandate for the EU mission Eufor Althea and for the NATO mission KFOR by a large majority. Up to 50 German soldiers are to ensure […]
By Fatos Bytyci and Louise Rasmussen PASJAK, Kosovo/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – In a jail in eastern Kosovo, plans are underway to remove all domestic inmates and open the space for foreign prisoners who will be airlifted from Denmark, more than 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) away. Denmark is expected to send 300 inmates to the Balkan country, […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Kosovo’s foreign minister said Wednesday that her country is convinced that Russia must lose the war in Ukraine for conflict not to spread further in Europe. She said her young nation’s support for Ukraine is unconditional even though Kyiv has not recognized Kosovo’s independence. Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz, who is both foreign minister […]
Pop singer Dua Lipa has reflected on the impact that the Kosovo war had on her and said having communication with people who experienced it opened up “a completely new world”. The New Rules singer, 28, is from a Kosovo Albanian family who moved to the UK before she was born amid conflict in the country. […]
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court on Tuesday sentenced a man to three-and-a-half years in prison for planning attacks. A Pristina court statement said the man contacted a person in Saudi Arabia to learn how to create bombs he planned to use against an LGBTQ+ march in the capital and at the Merdare border […]
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A Kosovo court on Tuesday sentenced two ethnic Serbs to six-month jail terms for attacking NATO-led peacekeepers a year ago. But one of them will be released for time served, and the other can avoid jail time if he pays a 6,000 euro ($6,500) fine. Local media named them as Radosh […]
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius arrived in Kosovo on Monday, the first stop in his planned multi-day trip to the Balkans. Pistorius is scheduled to meet Kosovan government officials and German soldiers serving with NATO’s KFOR peacekeeping force. His visit comes as Germany plans to increase the number of soldiers serving on the peacekeeping mission […]
Serbia will seek an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss the escalation of tensions with its former province of Kosovo, the country’s president said on Friday. The move comes after Kosovo’s government decided to ban the use of the Serbian dinar and introduce the euro in areas where minority Serbs live. Kosovo’s government has […]