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The White House has struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump's initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the violent protest on Aug. 12 in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups.

Supporters of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan marched in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 8 to protest the planned removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee, who oversaw Confederate forces in the U.S. Civil War.

Alibin Kurti, a candidate for Kosovo prime minister, claims that a new government in Pristina will form an army "in partnership with Albania and Croatia".

"Previous initiatives to form the army have hit an international wall," Kurti said during a debate on Thursday evening broadcast by the Klan Kosova TV, the KoSSev website reported.

Alibin Kurti, a candidate for Kosovo prime minister, claims that a new government in Pristina will form an army "in partnership with Albania and Croatia".

"Previous initiatives to form the army have hit an international wall," Kurti said during a debate on Thursday evening broadcast by the Klan Kosova TV, the KoSSev website reported.

Photo: Reuters (2012)

Former "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA) leader Ramush Haradinaj threatened Serbia again, adding that if Washington does not return to the Balkans, "they will end the deal" between Belgrade and Pristina.

The Republican congressman Steve King applauded the far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders on Sunday, using Twitter to write an apparent rejection of immigrant children in the United States and Europe.

Hate groups are flourishing across the United States, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Nationwide, the SPLC identified 917 hate groups last year, an increase on 892 in 2015. The number of anti-Muslim groups in particular has risen steeply, almost tripling from 34 in 2015 to 101 in 2016.

BELGRADE - Alexander Karpushin, Russia's ambassador to Albania, told "Koha Ditore" that UN Resolution 1244 does not allow the formation of the Army of Kosovo.

Albania's Prime Minister used an official visit to Kosovo on Thursday to stress the deep solidarity between the two countries at a time of serious tension between Kosovo and Serbia and following tough talks in Brussels between the two sides.

A U.S. jury on Jan. 10 condemned self-described white supremacist Dylann Roof to death over the massacre of nine black worshippers in a South Carolina church in June 2015 - a crime that shocked the nation.