Hashim Thaçi

BELGRADE - A special task force, formed as part of the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), has been investigating for 14 months now the corruption allegations concerning the EULEX top tier, reads the Belgrade-based daily Blic on Monday.

According to the daily, one of the contentious cases is related to the sale of the Serb property in KiM.

Journalists in Kosovo are to hold a protest rally in Pristina following an alarming incident in which a journalist was stabbed at the workplace.

Milot Hasmija, an editor with the Pristina-based Klan Kosovo television station, was stabbed in the neck and head several times on Monday by an intruder in the TV studio.

Thaci's ministers to take part in Belgrade conference

BELGRADE -- Kosovo's foreign and economic development minister Enver Hoxhaj and Fadil Ismaili will participate a regional ministerial meeting in Belgrade, Beta reported.

The agency said this was announced on Tuesday by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

Over three months after his father took him to the Syrian warzone, eight-year-old Erion was reunited on Wednesday night with his distraught mother, Pranvera Zena, at Pristina Airport.

"It feels like a dream," she told AP news agency after the reunion. "It feels as if I am waking up and I fear he's still not there."

Political deadlock continues in Kosovo

PRIŠTINA -- DPK leader Hashim Thaci has said that deputies from that party will not attend the "informal and illegal session of the Assembly of Kosovo on October 9."

Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has used Britain's left-of-centre Guardian newspaper to dismiss claims that Kosovo is harbouring radical Islamists.

Kosovo imposes sanctions, Russians amused

MOSCOW -- Kosovo joining sanctions imposed against Russia "can only cause a smile," the head of the Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, Aleksei Pushkov, has said.

Self-Determination member to represent Priština

PRIŠTINA -- A member of the Self-Determination Movement, a party led by Albin Kurti, will in he future represent Priština in the technical dialogue with Belgrade.

Kosovo’s Constitutional Court is due to hold a hearing session on Thursday when the two major political blocs will present additional arguments on which one has the right to nominate a candidate for the post of speaker of the Assembly.

Kosovo govt. to be "all-encompassing" - but without Thaci

PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo's next government will be "all-encompassing" - but without Hashim Thaci's DPK party, said Isa Mustafa, Ramush Haradinaj and Fatmir Limaj.

They head the LDK-AAK-Initiative for Kosovo post-election bloc.