Hashim Thaçi

Kosovo's Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, on Wednesday said he was cancelling a contract that was awarded to his sons' company for the service of a government limo.

Mustafa told the cabinet at a government meeting on Wednesday that no law had been violated by the offer of the contract.

A new round of the EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is set to take place in Brussels on August 25.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo's Prime Minister Isa Mustafa will take part, the European External Action Service said in a release on Friday.

A Kosovo government official has said that "15 most influential countries of Europe and the world are lobbying for Kosovo's membership in UNESCO." unacceptable

Petrit Selimi, who serves as deputy to Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci, told the Pristina-based Albanian language newspaper Zeri that UNESCO membership would bring Kosovo "great political and cultural benefits."

A special court for KLA's war crimes, to be set up, could spoil Hashim Thaci's plans to become Kosovo's president, write local media in Pristina.

This would be true if the former leader of the KLA and the former prime minister, who now serves as Kosovo's foreign minister, were to be indicted.

EU and US diplomats said the Pristina parliament’s vote to set up a special war crimes court to prosecute former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas was a step towards justice for victims.

Deputy Kosovo PM and ruling LDK party leader Hashim Thaci was pelted with bottles on Monday as he was walking from the assembly to the government building.

Thaci was attacked by former members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), who were also chanting, "thief, thief." They were protesting for not being included in a list of KLA "veterans."

Kosovo's Special Prosecution raised an indictment against Hasani on Friday for committing "fraud while holding official duty" while he was rector of the University of Pristina.

Hakif Veliu, former head of the University of Pristina procurement office and Albert Rakipi, director of the Institute for International Studies from Tirana, were charged alongside Hasani.

The Kosovo parliament will vote on Monday on constitutional amendments that will allow the creation of the special court to try alleged crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army during the conflict in the country.

Kosovo's government asked parliament on July 31 to reconsider its rejection of an ad hoc court to try ethnic Albanian former guerrillas for alleged war crimes including organ harvesting, responding to intense Western pressure. 

The Kosovo government announced on Thursday that it is ready to call another vote on the controversial special court after it failed to gain approval in parliament last month because of opposition from many MPs.