Atifete Jahjaga

Kosovo on Thursday commemorated its annual Day of Forcibly Disappeared Persons with events intended to remember those who went missing during the 1998-99 war and to reiterate demands for justice.

Last week, Kosovo police were attacked several times close to the border with Serbia, where a road used for smuggling contraband goods was recently closed.

Belgrade officials have rejected Pristina's claims that the attacks came from Serbian territory, while the European Union has warned against "unnecessary speculation that may add to further tensions".

Vjosa Osmani became Kosovo's fifth head of state in 13 years since the country declared its independence from Serbia on Sunday night when MPs in the Kosovo Assembly voted to appoint her as president.

Osmani, a 38-year-old lawyer, also became the second woman to hold the post, after Atifete Jahjaga, who was president from 2011 to 2016.

'Miredita, Dobar Dan' - the festival's name means 'good day' in Albanian and Serbian - is intended to showcase Kosovo culture to a Belgrade audience.

Flora Brovina apologised on Friday for showing the explicit photograph to media and claiming that it showed three Serbian soldiers raping an ethnic Albanian woman during the war.

"The photograph is probably falsified," Brovina told a press conference.

Flora Brovina, an MP from the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, sparked angry reactions on Thursday when she showed a photograph to media which she said showed three Serbian soldiers raping an ethnic Albanian woman during the war.

Global pop star Rita Ora visited her homeland of Kosovo on Wednesday for a humanitarian mission with the UN organisation Unicef, which she has been supporting since 2013.

Local media reported that she had visited Ferizaj/Urosevac and a Roma neighborhood in Fushe Kosove/ Kosovo Polje.

June 12 marked in the territory of Kosovo as the anniversary of the liberation and entry of NATO forces.

The Serbia president, who was in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday when he was asked to comment on Haradinaj's statement that Mogerini is to blame for the collapse of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, responded that he disagreed, adding that only Belgrade and Pristina could be blamed for this.

Only two countries supported the entry of Kosovo into the Schengen area.

This is written in a report by the Kosovo Foreign Ministry which daily Koha Ditore said it had seen. This report was made after a meeting held this month with representatives of the 17 EU member states.