Pristina

Tear gas has once again been thrown in the hall of the Kosovo assembly in Pristina.

The opposition Self-Determination party and the assembly security also clashed in the foyer this Monday, resulting in the arrest of one MP.

Marko Djuric has said that media in Pristina "have focused on blaming Serbs" for the attacks in the village of Gorazdevac - a Serb enclave in Kosovo.

Representatives of Dutch and Kosovo judiciaries reached an agreement that the headquarters of a future special court for war crimes will be in Pristina.

This was reported on Wednesday by Serbia's state broadcaster RTS, that quoted Albanian language daily Koha Ditore, published in Pristina.

Montenegro is waiting for NATO approval to contribute troops to KFOR forces in Kosovo, after it "expressed [the] intention" to join, BIRN has learned.

Several sources from Montenegro's defence and foreign affairs ministries have confirmed the government submitted a request to NATO to send soldiers to Kosovo before Podgorica received its invitation to join the alliance last week.

Minister Vulin: "General Lazarevis is a hero"

Aleksandar Vulin has said that Serbia was "no longer a country that turns its head from its generals-heroes, but one that is proud of them."

In an apparent change of tactics after the recent violence, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) party said it would hold peaceful rallies outside the capital starting on Saturday.

Aleksandar Vucic said at the opening of the OSCE Ministerial Council that the Balkans remains "a powder keg that needs only a spark to explode again."

Kerry on Wednesday endorsed the EU-brokered agreements between Pristina and Belgrade, and urged Kosovo's opposition to use democratic methods to express its discontent.

Opposition MPs have repeatedly set off tear gas inside parliament in protest in recent weeks.

But Kerry said that parliament "is not the place for tear gas and it is not the place for intimidation".

There are currently about 120 persons in Kosovo who returned from the ranks of so-called Islamic State (IS), Kosovo police spokesperson Baki Kelani has said.

The persons in question had been taking part in the fighting in Syria and Iraq at various times since 2011, Pristina-based Albanian language daily Zeri is quoted by Serbia's state broadcaster RTS on Monday.

A Pristina court on Sunday ordered Kurti to be held for 30 days in a high-security prison after riot police detained him when they stormed the Vetevendosje party's headquarters the previous day, clashing with its supporters.

The raid followed an opposition rally on Saturday against the Kosovo government's recent EU-brokered agreements with Serbia and Montenegro.