Kosovo Liberation Army

Hashim Thaci has been elected as Kosovo's president after 71 of the country's 120 MPs voted in favour of his nomination. Ten ballots were deemed invalid.

The alternative candidate, Rafet Rama, also from the Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, received no votes.

Strong police forces have been deployed in Pristina ahead of the start of an assembly sitting that should elect Kosovo's new president.

There are two candidates, from the ranks of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK): Hashim Thaci and Rafet Rama.

Ahead of the election of a new President of Kosovo, opposition parties have urged their supporters to gather in front of parliament, where they have been sleeping in tents as part of their campaign to force the government to resign.

Opposition activists and politicians set up tents in the square opposite the government building in Pristina on the night before parliament - interrupted last Friday by tear gas three times - was due to resume work on Wednesday.

At dusk, some 30 tents, including almost ten with a capacity of 10 to 40 people, were set up in the city's Skanderbeg Square.

Leaders of opposition parties in Kosovo announced on Tuesday they would protest around the clock in front of the assembly and government buildings.

Their goal is to prevent the election of Hashim Thaci as Kosovo's president.

Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said that a Serbian court’s decision to convict eight former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters of killing Yugoslav Army troops in September 1998 was a farce.

A Serbian court has convicted eight former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters in absentia of ambushing and killing Yugoslav Army troops in Kosare in Kosovo in September 1998.

On the 15 anniversary of the bus bombing in Kosovo that killed 12 Serbs, Marko Djuric said it was "impermissible" that the case has not had a court outcome.

The director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija noted that even 15 years after the grave crime, the perpetrators have not been found.

The Basic Court of Pec has issued an indictment against 14 Serbs from Klina, northwestern Kosovo, charging them with committing war crimes in Kosovo in 1999.

A warrant for their arrest has been issued, Tanjug reported.

Opposition parties in Kosovo have called on people to take to the streets again on February 17, when the country will celebrate the eighth anniversary of the declaration of independence.