Kosovo

Three Albanians have been arrested in the region of the town of Kosovska Mitrovica in northern Kosovo when more than 45 kilograms of cocaine were also seized.

The Kosovo police announced this late on Wednesday.

PARIS - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, opened an exhibition titled "Kosovo-Metohija - 10 steps" at the Serbian Cultural Centre in Paris Tuesday, noting it best reflected the nature and the value of the Serbian heritage in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - Pope Francis should visit Belgrade and Pristina within the next year, the Belgrade-based Danas daily reported on Wednesday, quoting unofficial Western diplomatic sources.

Ukraine's basketball and football teams will play their EuroBasket and World Cup qualifiers against Kosovo at neutral venues outside Ukraine.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Serbia Oleksandr Aleksandrovych announced this Tuesday.

A small private plane flying from the Italian city of Treviso to Kosovo's capital Pristina crashed amid heavy rain on Tuesday evening in Macedonia, killing all six people on board.

Mitko Cavkov, head of Macedonia's Bureau for Public Security, said four Italians and two Kosovo citizens were killed in the crash.

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, will in Brussels on September 7-9 head Belgrade's delegation in the continuing expert-level dialogue with Pristina, Djuric's office has announced.

BELGRADE - The Ukraine national basketball and football teams will play their respective EuroBasket 2017 and World Cup 2018 qualifying games against Kosovo at neutral venues outside Ukraine, Ukrainian Ambassador to Serbia Oleksandr Aleksandrovych announced Tuesday.

Marko Djuric will head Belgrade's delegation in the continuing expert-level dialogue with Pristina in Brussels, from September 7 until 9.

Djuric is the head of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, which made the announcement on Wednesday.

Fans gathered in Pristina on Monday evening to watch the Kosovo team kick off its inaugural World Cup qualifying campaign with an important 1-1 away draw in Turku in Finland.

Kosovo's scorer was Valon Berisha, who earned the point with a penalty kick just hours after football's world governing body FIFA cleared him to play for the country.

David Schwendiman has been appointed chief prosecutor of a Hague-based special court to investigate war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo.

The court is looking at atrocities committed against Serbs by the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during and after the conflict, Reuters reported.