Kosovo

Kosovo civil society activists have called another protest on Thursday in Pristina's main Skenderbeg Square over the death of Vetevendosje activist Astrit Dehari who died early in November in a jail in Prizren.

The rallty is supported by thousands of social media users using the hashtag #JusticeForAstrit or Albanian #DrejtesiPerAstritin.

A former Yugoslav secret police official and two Serbian hitmen were convicted of the assassination of Kosovo Albanian dissident Enver Hadri in Brussels in 1990.

Kosovo parliament's budget and finance committee will meet again on Wednesday for the sixth time since the government at the beginning of November moved the law to discuss the 2017 budget.

The meeting comes two days after the committee failed to debate the budget because MPs from the senior coalition partner, the Democratic League of Kosovo, PDK, failed to show up.

Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic, jailed for nine years for war crimes, told Pristina’s appeals court that his trial was unlawful because he had already been investigated over the same offence.

Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic will attend the November 22-26 Summit of the International Organization of La Francophonie in Madagascar.

Tanjug reported on Tuesday that this event is "also expected to be attended by Kosovo President Hashim Thaci."

There are no more excuses for delays on the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), head of the Serbian Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric, said on Monday.

He made the statement during a meeting in Belgrade with Anna-Karin Enestrom, Director-General for Political Affairs at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, with whom he discussed the state of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

Hajriz Hoxha, the brother of Ramiz Hoxha, one of two Kosovo Albanian men executed for alleged treachery by the KLA in 1998, told BIRN on Sunday that he had seen the masked men he believed to be the killers and had new information which could reveal their identities.

BRUSSELS - A deal on the implementation of the Belgrade-Pristina agreement on telecommunications was confirmed in Brussels on Friday.

A new era is beginning for Telekom Srbija in the entire territory of the Republic of Serbia, including Kosovo-Metohija, said the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Friday refused to rule out the possibility of pressure from European institutions aimed at making Serbia recognise Kosovo-Metohija as an independent state.

BRUSSELS - A deal on carrying out a Belgrade-Pristina agreement on telecommunications was confirmed in Brussels Friday after three days of discussions, with all details of the implementation coordinated.