Kosovo News

A Pristina court has placed members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army Drenica Group suspected of war crimes in 1998 and 1999 under house arrest.

Serbian Deputy PM Rasim Ljajiae says that technical talks on telecommunication between Belgrade and Pristina would continue on May 30-31. 'We will try to harmonize our positions in those two days and reach a final text of the agreement,' he told reporters on Saturday.

The Organisation for Islamic Countries does not share western values and democratic principles that Kosovo values, said Petrit Zogaj, executive director of Kosovo Movement Fol .

In 2012, 537 people were arrested for terrorism-related offences in 17 EU member states, according to the latest Europol report.

European law enforcement officials arrested five suspects in Kosovo on 23 May for alleged war crimes during the 1998-1999 conflict, including a longtime ally of Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, Reuters reports .

In an effort to provide more efficient and safer air navigation services, regional airspace navigation and safety companies signed a joint service provision area initiative.

Both sides have arrived at a harmonized text of a plan for the implementation of the Brussels agreement, said Ivica Daeiae.

Male brown bear Ari, right, and female bear Arina in a bear sanctuary, after being rescued from a decade of captivity in a privately run illegal zoo, Thursday, May 23, 2013, in the village of Mramor near the Kosovo capital Pristina .

Male brown bear Ari runs in a bear sanctuary, after being rescued from a decade of captivity in a privately run illegal zoo, Thursday, May 23, 2013, in the village of Mramor near the Kosovo capital Pristina .

Male brown bear Ari and female bear Arina in a bear sanctuary, after being rescued from a decade of captivity in a privately run illegal zoo, Thursday, May 23, 2013, in the village of Mramor near the Kosovo capital Pristina .

A close wartime ally of Kosovo's prime minister was among five people arrested by European Union police on Thursday on suspicion of war crimes during a 1998-99 insurgency against Serbian forces.

WAM DUSHANBE, 22 May, 2013 - The 290th meeting of the Board of Executive Directors of the Islamic Development Bank has approved US$ 461.7 million to fund various development projects in member countries, as well as several educational projects for Muslim communities in non-member countries.

Brussels intensifies diplomatic efforts for the implementation of the new agreement on Kosovo, signed by Belgrade and Pristina on April 19.

Members of the Vetevendosje movement draw on a board depicting 76,000 employees they say lost their jobs due to privatisation in Kosovo, on September 28th 2012.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikoliae told German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Monday that Serbia is fully committed to resolving the Kosovo issue.

Germany insists on the shutdown of the existing institutions in northern Kosovo so that new ones could be set up, MP Milovan Drecun has said.

Serbia Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met with Kosovo Serbs in the hopes that they will accept the Belgrade-Pristina agreement.

If the talks on Kosovo fail because of Pristina's obstructions, other exit strategies should be considered, even returning the talks under the UN auspices.

Belgrade and Pristina's landmark agreement to normalize their relations is facing difficult hurdles on the ground in the Serb-majority municipalities of northern Kosovo.

PRISTINA, Kosovo, May 14 - When Arsen Hamiti brought his family home from their war-time refuge in Germany, he discovered that his four daughters born in exile faced a formidable obstacle to a normal life: they lacked that simple but fundamental document, the birth certificate.