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The candidate of the so-called war coalition PAN, Kadri Veseli, has been elected as the president of the Kosovo Assembly.

This happened on Thursday, after five failed attempts over these past months.

The PAN coalition, which has 39 out of 120 parliamentary seats, had the right to propose the candidate for parliamentary speaker, but decided on Thursday not to attend the parliamentary session, causing the vote to be postponed.

The Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival is celebrating its 17th anniversary this year with a six-day schedule jam-packed with local and international acts, including Israel's Amit Friedman, the Kadri Voorand Quartet from Estonia, the Sweden-based Andreas Hourdakis Trio, Dutch saxophonist Yuri Honing, Germany's Grandbrothers, Rumba Attack from Cyprus and Britain's Portico Quartet.

PRISTINA - Kosovo President Hasim Taci has sent a formal request to Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli that a bill on transforming the Kosovo Security Force into an army not be put on the body's agenda, noting the process required constitutional amendments.

Jailed journalist Kadri Gürsel did nothing wrong; he did not steal and did not kill. He is as pure as can be. He is only but only a journalist, but he is in jail under arrest. Just like other journalistic colleagues of his, he does not know what he is accused of because there is no indictment. 

Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli has published a photo on Twitter of himself in the company of US President Donald Trump.

Veseli accompanied it with the following message:

This is not the story of the overcoat of the impoverished government clerk in 19th century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's masterpiece "The Overcoat."

This is the story of the overcoat of a Turkish journalist in prison.

New PDK leader Kadri Veseli put on a show at his party’s headquarters, welcoming a star from the Big Brother Albania TV show as the newest party member and urging others to follow his lead.

Opposition MPs in Kosovo again let off tear gas in parliament on Wednesday during a meeting of the Steering Committee, which met to decide the date to elect a new president.

The speaker, Kadri Veseli announced that the vote would take place on Friday, with Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci as the main candidate for the post.

Kosovo's parliament on Friday is due to hold its first session in 2016 after meeting for the last time two months ago, on December 17.