The United States will present 10 women from around the world with the 2015 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage Award.
The Austrian government has published an appeal in Kosovo's largest daily newspaper warning Kosovars against trying to seek asylum in Austria.
Kosovo marked the seventh anniversary of independence from Serbia on February 17 with Prime Minister Isa Mustafa urging citizens not to leave the mainly ethnic Albanian territory as it grapples with a deep economic crisis.
Tens of thousands of Kosovars left the country in 2014 and the rate of out migration has jumped 40 percent since December. Asylum seekers in the EU from Kosovo now outnumber those from Syria and Afghanistan.
Serbian security forces have increased patrols and deployed elite units in an effort to stop thousands of migrants from crossing its border into Hungary.
Serbia and Kosovo have reached an agreement to establish an ethnically mixed court in the northern Mitrovica region during EU-brokered talks in Brussels.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic voiced hope on February 9 that his country could make progress soon in its bid for EU membership ahead of talks in Brussels on resuming efforts to normalize ties with Kosovo.
European foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini was due on February 9 to host talks with the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia aimed at further normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina.
Border towns in southern Hungary have seen a dramatic rise in the number of migrants illegally crossing into the EU state from neighboring Serbia, which recently eased its travel restrictions. The majority of the migrants are Kosovars, who are escaping from poverty and mass unemployment back home.
A film in Serbia documents a massacre of Kosovo Albanians, protesting for unpaid wages in Kazakhstan, a strike empties the business district of Karachi, Pakistan -- plus more stories from Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Thousands of demonstrators clashed with police in Pristina during a protest demanding the dismissal of a Serb minister accused of insulting Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority. Dozens of people, including five police officers, were hurt in the clashes as police used tear gas to disperse the crowds.
Dozens of people were injured on January 27 when Kosovo police clashed with thousands of demonstrators demanding the dismissal of a Serbian minister accused of insulting the ethnic-Albanian majority.
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