The Kosovar writer and former politician Adem Demaçi died at the age of 82. The authorities in Pristina announced this on Thursday. Demaçi was known as the 'Mandela of Kosovo'. He was in jail in Yugoslavia for 28 years and grew into the liberty symbol of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
The judge in Kosovo sentenced eight men to prison sentences for preparing a terrorist attack on the Israeli national football team. The highest sentence is ten years in prison, the lowest one and a half years.
Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj of Kosovo fired the Minister of the Interior and the Chief of the Secret Service on Friday after the arrest and extradition to Turkey of six Turkish citizens.
Kosovo arrested six Turkish nationals and extradited them to Turkey. According to the Turkish government, the six have links with the movement of the spiritual Fethullah Gülen, who would be behind the failed coup attempt of summer 2016.
The Kosovo police have arrested a high Serbian official. This led to an angry reaction from Belgrade. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke of a 'brutal provocation' and accused the EU mission in Kosovo (EULEX) of complicity.
The Kosovo Parliament ratified a border agreement with neighboring Montenegro on Wednesday and thereby fulfilled the condition for visa-free travel in the European Union. Of the 120 MEPs, 80 agreed to the agreement.
Bizarre situation in the Kosovo Parliament. In order to prevent a vote on border agreements with Montenegro, members of the opposition threw a few tees of tear gas into the hall on Wednesday.
Kosovo and Montenegro have reached an agreement on a sweeping border dispute on Friday. The agreement is a step towards visa-free travel for Kosovars to the European Union.
One of the most notorious drug criminals in Europe, Naser Kelmendi (61), has been sentenced to six years in prison in Kosovo. He had also been charged with murder, but he was acquitted of it.
In Kosovo, a coalition led by the center-right party Democratic Party Kosovo (PDK) won the parliamentary elections. With 90 percent of the votes counted, the PDK has almost 35 percent of the votes, according to local media.
A French court has swept a Serbian extradition request for Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Thursday. Haradinaj immediately came free. Serbia responded furiously and recalled his ambassador for consultation from Paris.
The controversial wall in the city shared by Kosovo Serbs and Albanians Mitrovica was demolished Sunday. The disappearance of the wall is meant to ease tensions between Serbia and Kosovo.
Ramush Haradinaj, a former prime minister of Kosovo must remain in the French prison until Serbia submitted a formal extradition request. That request will be reviewed by the appropriate authorities, as has appointed a French court Thursday.
The Government of Kosovo to the European Union to put pressure on Serbia to the international arrest warrants against some twenty former Kosovo guerrillas, mostly members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to lift. Wednesday was Ramush Haradinaj, former prime minister of Kosovo in France arrested on the basis of a Serbian arrest warrant in 2004.
French police on Wednesday, the former Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj arrested on the basis of a Serbian arrest warrant in 2004. Serbia considers Haradinaj, who was a key guerrilla commander during the uprising of 1998, as a war criminal. However, the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague spoke to him in the past, twice free.
A crashed jet, registered Tuesday in Germany near Veles in Macedonia and went up in flames. The aircraft was with six people on board en route from Treviso to Pristina, capital of Kosovo. All occupants, it would go to four Italians and two Kosovars, were killed.
Emotions ran high in Kosovo on Tuesday ahead of a vote on a disputed boundary. An opposition member moved into the parliament building an open bottle of tear gas, while protesters in the capital Pristina with stone throwing.
