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A Kosovo activist, Veron Hasani, has pressed charges against the bodyguards of President Hashim Thaci, after being detained for calling the president a "thief" and, he said, violently attacked.

Hashim Thaci: Guerrilla Chief Became Kosovo Leader

An Albanian boy in military uniform salutes to KLA leader Hashim Thaci during Albanian celebrations marking the retreat of Serbian troops from Podujevo, Saturday, 07 August 1999. Photo: EPA/ALBAN BUJARI

In order to become an EU member state Serbia apparently would have to recognize Kosovo's independence and impose sanctions against Russia.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has publicly announced that these demands will soon be publicly declared by EU authorities as the official conditions for Serbia's membership in the Union, according to Radio Television of Serbia.

The official phase of the coalition talks to form a new Turkish government after the June 7 election is expected to start next week.

A deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) recently declared that ?the Ottoman Empire has returned,? but the government has since faced its own ?janissary rebellion," when public servants dressed as Ottoman janissary soldiers protested in front of a local AKP headquarters.

The Lebanese army detained the wife and one of the sons of the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as they crossed from Syria in recent days, Lebanese security officials said on Dec. 2.