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Turkey violated Greek air space 29 times

As Kosovo imposed new restrictions to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of its citizens spent a "long weekend" in Albania, as Friday was a holiday in Kosovo, as it was constitution day.

Usually at lunchtime, restaurants in Pristina are full of customers but these days it is the silence that is most deeply noticed by passers by.

To stop the spread of the coronavirus, the Kosovo government has imposed a new set of measures, and restaurant owners complain they are affected the most.

After a two-and-a-half-year-old girl who was badly beaten by her mother died in a Zagreb hospital on Sunday, the government has admitted that there are problems with Croatia's social care system and promised to work on improvements.

On Monday, a press conference by international observers of Bulgaria's 45th National Assembly elections was held at the Hilton Hotel in the capital.

At one point, during the beatings, Magbule [not her real name] thought her only choice was whether to endure the violence or take her own life.

"I had nowhere to go," she said. "I was severely beaten, but I endured it all. On the day I was thrown out, I could not cope anymore."

Magbule was driven out of her home by her family in a remote region of southern Kosovo last year.

Russia has upped its saber rattling in Eastern Europe and the Arctic, a move that has put the Biden administration on alert.

In the past two weeks, Moscow has moved to test Washington and its allies on land, in the air and at sea with a buildup of military equipment in eastern Ukraine, military flights near Alaskan airspace and submarine activity in the Arctic.

Those who do not go to the polls will leave the fate of our Motherland, the fate of their loved ones and their own fate to the arbitrariness of the choice of others, Bulgaria's President said in a televised address to the people on April 1.

He called upon all adult Bulgarians: "Think, choose, vote. Everything is up to us on Sunday."

A BIRN analysis has found out that cash-strapped Albanian municipalities just can't deliver on their legal obligations to help women fleeing violent partners.

Kosovo's Special Prosecution said in a statement on Wednesday that a suspect identified only by the initials M.A. has been detained "for the criminal offence 'war crimes against the civilian population'".

The prosecution said that the person who was arrested, an ethnic Albanian who holds Serbian citizenship, will soon appear before a pre-trial judge.