Kosovo News

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.

The Serbian Orthodox Church is highly influential in Serbia. Above, the Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade.

Vincent Degert says Serbia and Kosovo's PMs Ivica Daeiae and Hashim Thaci will have to step in if the implementation of the agreement grinds to a halt.

Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci arrives in Bulgaria on Wednesday to pay a one-day working visit.

The stunning design of the Don Cafe House might be appropriately inspired by a sack of coffee beans, but the first thing that will come to some people's minds is The Great Wave off Kanagawa painting.

He is watching police dogs snuffling about the drab municipal building on the Serbian, northern side of the divided town of Mitrovica, preparing for the visit of Aleksandar Vucic.

Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic urged Serbs living in northern Kosovo to accept an EU-brokered agreement to normalise relations between Serbia and its breakaway former province, while admitting the accord was not ideal.

Faced with a huge number of people who need help in resolving their housing situation, Serbia and Kosovo authorities are launching initiatives to provide apartments to their vulnerable populations.

More than 3,000 people protested in Belgrade on May 10 against an EU-brokered deal to normalize ties between Belgrade and Kosovo, seen by ultra-nationalists as Serbia's tacit recognition of its former province's independence.

"Opening myself up to a new family and a new culture was the best decision of my life," says Dorotea, one of the class of 2012-13 Kosovo Youth Exchange Program .

The arrest of suspected narcotics boss Naser Kelmendi is a major step in combatting the drug trade in the region, analysts said.

PRISTINA, Kosovo The European Union law mission in Kosovo says it has ordered a suspected Balkan drug boss to be detained for one month while it gathers evidence in a suspected organized crime case.