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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Serbs will head to the polls again after fraud reports led to tensions during a December ballot

BELGRADE, Serbia — Voters in Serbia will go to the polls this weekend for a municipal vote in dozens of cities and towns, including a rerun ballot in the capital of Belgrade where ruling populists were accused of an election fraud in December. The right-wing Serbian Progressive Party of President Aleksandar Vucic is seen as a favorite ahead of the …

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8 months ago

Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities vote on removing Albanian mayors from office

The Independent

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Kosovo will conduct nationwide census that includes surveying ethnic Serb minority

The Hindu

Kosovo's government began on April 5 its first nationwide census since 2011, which will include surveying the ethnic Serb minority in the north, at a time when tensions with neighbouring Serbia are high. Kosovo was a former Serbian province until a 78-day NATO bombing campaign in 1999 ended a war between Serbian government forces and ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Serbs in Kosovo mourn those killed in monastery shootout

Firstpost

The gunbattle has prompted new international concern over stability in Kosovo, which has an ethnic Albanian majority and declared independence from Serbia in 2008 after a guerrilla uprising and a 1999 NATO intervention Following the deadliest violence in years in the contested area, the biggest political party representing Serbs in northern Kosovo on Tuesday declared three days of mourning for …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Serbia demands that NATO take over policing of northern Kosovo after a deadly shootout

Associated Press

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s president demanded Tuesday to have a NATO-led peacekeeping force take over for the national law enforcement agency in northern Kosovo after a daylong shootout between armed Serbs and Kosovar police left one officer and three gunmen dead. He said he wanted the NATO-led Kosovo Force, or KFOR, to take over “all the security matters in the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Brawl erupts in Kosovo’s parliament during PM’s speech on defusing tensions with Serbs | WATCH

India TV News

A brawl erupted in the Kosovo parliament on Thursday after an opposition lawmaker threw water on Prime Minister Albin Kurti while he was speaking about government measures to defuse tensions with ethnic Serbs in the country’s north. On Wednesday, Kurti announced he would reduce the number of special police officers stationed outside four municipal buildings in ethnic Serb-majority areas in …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Brawl erupts in Kosovo’s parliament during prime minister’s speech on defusing tensions with Serbs

Associated Press

PRISTINA, Kosovo — A brawl erupted in the Kosovo parliament on Thursday after an opposition lawmaker threw water on Prime Minister Albin Kurti while he was speaking about government measures to defuse tensions with ethnic Serbs in the country’s north. On Wednesday, Kurti announced he would reduce the number of special police officers stationed outside four municipal buildings in ethnic …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Montenegro’s president dissolves parliament as election nears

Al Jazeera

Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic has issued a decree to dissolve parliament, days before a presidential election. Montenegro’s political turmoil has worsened since the parliamentary elections in 2020, in which Djukanovic’s Democratic Party of Socialists suffered a historic defeat by a church-backed coalition. Although Montenegro’s president has a largely ceremonial role, analysts see Sunday’s vote as a potential turning point in …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Kosovo deploys police, Serbs protest amid border tension