Police in Kosovska Mitrovica said around 500 people took part in a demonstration after an international court found a prominent Kosovo Serb politician guilty of war crimes charges. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
A Kosovar citizen accused of hacking the personal data of 1,351 U.S. military personnel and sending it to the Islamic State (IS) extremist group made his first public appearance in the United States on January 27.
The worst year in global freedom in a decade saw Russia and China cracking down more due to "fear of social unrest" and particularly bad rankings for Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and Belarus, the rights monitor Freedom House reports.
An international court has sentenced a leading Kosovar Serb politician to nine years in prison for war crimes.
The Dutch government says a special EU-backed court is being established in The Hague to try crimes allegedly committed by ethnic Albanian guerrillas during the Kosovo war.
Protesters threw petrol bombs at government buildings, and police responded with tear gas, in the Kosovan capital, Prishtina. The demonstration was against an EU-brokered agreement on improving relations with Serbia, which gives greater autonomy to majority Serbian municipalities.
Opposition supporters and police have clashed during an antigovernment protest in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says Belgrade must resolve the disputes between Kosovo and Serbia, but not due to pressure from the European Union.
Kosovo's Constitutional Court has ruled that parts of a deal between Kosovo and Serbia to give more powers to ethnic Serbs in Kosovo violate the country's constitution.
European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said on December 18 that the European Union should offer visa-free short-stay travel within the Schengen zone for citizens of Ukraine, Georgia, and Kosovo -- all three locked in bitter disputes with Russia.
Serbia and Brussels have begun talks in earnest on possible EU membership for Belgrade, opening the country’s first two accession stages in negotiations for it to join the bloc.
Opposition lawmakers in Kosovo have, once again, released tear gas in parliament as they try to pressure the government into renouncing deals with Serbia and Montenegro.
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