Kosovo
Dacic walked out of Warsaw meeting "because of insults"
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says he left a meeting in Warsaw on Tuesday "because of the insults made by Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj."
Dacic said on Wednesday that Hoxhaj accused Serbs of being guilty for "all wars in the former Yugoslavia and for genocide."
Kosovo: IMF funds spent on pensions for veterans now fighting for ISIS?
Illustration - Photo from: Al-Alam
BELGRADE - Over the past two decades, the Kosovar government has spent over $2 billion on payment to former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) paramilitary organization. Kosovo received the money from the United States and the European Union and since 2009 mostly from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Community of Serb Municipalities as "key issue"
Establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) is a key issue raised by Belgrade's delegation with EU representatives in Brussels.
Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, said this on Tuesday.
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Haradinaj denies he is crime boss who smuggles weapons
Alliance for the Future of Kosovo leader Ramush Haradinaj claims that the media reports about him being "a crime and arms smuggling boss" are untrue.
Haradinaj took to Facebook to say that the allegations were the work of "criminal associations from Belgrade and Pristina, whose mentors are in Moscow."
Belgrade-Pristina talks to resume Tuesday
This week's round of expert talks between the Belgrade and Pristina delegations will resume in Brussels on Tuesday.
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Turkish consulate in Kosovo attacked with Molotovs
The Turkish consulate in the city of Prizren in Kosovo was attacked by unidentified assailants hurling Molotov cocktails early on Nov. 28, according to Kosovar authorities.
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Three Serbians to remain free pending finality of Brussels murder verdict
BELGRADE - Andrija Draskovic, Veselin Vukotic and Bozidar Spasic, three Serbian nationals sentenced in absentia by a Brussels court to life imprisonment for the murder of Kosovo human rights activist Enver Hadri in 1990, are free citizens in Serbia, at least until the verdict becomes final.
"Haradinaj's clan smuggling arms through Serbia" - daily
Former KLA commander and former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj "heads one of the most powerful crime clans in Kosovo."
This is according to the Belgrade-based newspaper Blic, which also claims that the crime group "uses a route through Serbia" to smuggle weapons.
Svilanovic: Region's EU accession process has changed
BELGRADE - Croatia's EU accession marked the end of one accession model, and the process is now completely different for Western Balkan states due to the circumstances in the region and the EU itself, such as the economic crisis, migration and Brexit, Regional Cooperation Council Secretary-General Goran Svilanovic said Thursday.
Brussels court sentences Serbian nationals to life imprisonment
BRUSSELS - A Brussels court has sentenced Serbian nationals Veselin Vukotic, Andrija Draskovic and Bozidar Spasic to life imprisonment for the murder of Kosovo human rights activist Enver Hadri in Brussels 26 years ago.
The jury handed maximum jail terms to the three men, sentencing Vukotic and Draskovic as the perpetrators and Spasic as the mastermind of the killing.