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Kosovo Prosecutor's Office has raised indictments against nine persons for terrorism and links with Islamic State extremists.

They are suspected of planning attacks on players and fans during a football match between Albania and Israel, played in Elbasan last year.

Albanians must decide if they want to fight Haradinaj's wars and must understand that times have changed and the whole world will not fight those wars for them.

Serbian Labor, Veteran and Social Affairs Minister Aleksandar Vulin said this on Monday, adding that Serbia "takes very seriously" the threats coming from Haradinaj, the leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama speaks at the news conference with visiting Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, the first Serbian leader to visit the nation after a troubled past, at the Palace of Brigades in the Albanian capital, Tirana, Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Both countries are trying to overcome their troubled past while working toward EU membership.

By joining Montenegro's ruling coalition, Albanians "saved" this country for the second time, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has been quoted as saying.

"By joining the government Albanians saved Montenegro for the second time," he said.

The office of Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov on Monday said the obstacles preventing him from awarding a mandate to the opposition Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev had not been removed.

This is despite calls by the opposition and the international community for the President not to further delay the formation of a new government.

Political leaders in Albania and Kosovo have condemned the decision on Wednesday by Macedonia President Gjorje Ivanov to refuse the offer of a mandate to the Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev because of his alliance with Macedonia's ethnic Albanian parties.

Amid the ongoing delay in forming a new government after the December 11 elections, an opinion poll published on Monday suggested that if the polls were repeated, the ruling VMRO DPMNE party and its bitter rival, the opposition Social Democrats, SDSM, would win almost equal support, as they did two months ago.

BELGRADE - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia has expressed its outrage to the US State Department after Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher suggested it was not a country, and should be partitioned by neighbors such as Kosovo and Bulgaria.

The Albanian Bee [Bleta Shqiptare] political movement was launched on Tuesday in Tirana, presenting a manifesto that urged Albanians to take action to create a better future for the country after the disappointments caused by the political parties that have governed the country since the end of Communism.

Germany said only 17,236 asylum seekers from Albania arrived in the country 2016, a sharp drop of more than 34,000 on the previous year, when over 50,000 arrived.

Viktor Merkuri, from the European University of Tirana, told BIRN on Thursday that Germany had successfully discouraged Albanians from seeking asylum by implementing tough repatriation policies.