StrangeSights: Kosovo honours Blair with life-size statue; NASA asked to help find Loch Ness Monster; and, Alfa Romeo changes car name after Milan criticism
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Serbia lowers number of troops near Kosovo, army chief of staff says
Belgrade, SerbiaReuters Serbia has withdrawn some troops stationed near the border with Kosovo, after having increased the numbers deployed there following a gun battle in northern Kosovo in which four people died, army commander General Milan Mojsilovic said on Monday. Tensions between Belgrade and Pristina soared since 24th September, when Kosovo police near the northern […]
Kosovo demands Serbia withdraw troops from border
Pristina, Kosovo Reuters Kosovo on Saturday demanded that Serbia withdraw its troops from their common border, saying it was ready to protect its territorial integrity. Tensions between the two countries have been high since last Sunday when Kosovo police fought around 30 heavily armed Serbs who stormed the Kosovo village of Banjska and barricaded themselves […]
Serbs in Kosovo mourn those killed in monastery shootout
Pristina, Kosovo/Belgrade, SerbiaReuters The main political party representing Serbs in northern Kosovo declared three days of mourning on Tuesday for people killed in a gunbattle in a monastery with Kosovo police, after the worst violence for years in the contested area. Kosovo authorities say around 30 heavily armed Serbs stormed the village of Banjska on […]
Kosovo says Serbia should hand over escaped Serb gunmen after deadly shootout
Mitrovica, Kosovo Reuters Kosovo called on Serbia on Monday to hand over ethnic Serb gunmen it said had escaped after a shootout with Kosovar police that killed four people in the restive north of the country, aggravating tensions between Pristina and Belgrade. The gunmen stormed the village of Banjska on Sunday, battling police and barricading […]
Serb gunmen battle police in Kosovo monastery siege; four dead
North Mitrovica, KosovoReuters Ethnic Serb gunmen in armoured vehicles stormed a village in north Kosovo on Sunday, battling police and barricading themselves in a monastery in a resurgence of violence in the restive north that killed four people. The siege centred on a Serbian Orthodox monastery near the village of Banjska in the Serb-majority region […]
Postcards: In Kosovo, graffiti rejuvenates Pristina’s concrete jungle
FATOS BYTYCI, of Reuters, reports on a colouful revitalisation project…
StrangeSights: A “lioness” on the loose?; high diving in Kosovo; and, beating the heat with a “facekini”
DAVID ADAMS provides a round-up of some stories on the odder side of life…
Brawl erupts at Kosovo parliament after lawmaker throws water on PM
Pristina, KosovoReuters Fistfights broke out at the Kosovo parliament and water was thrown on the Prime Minister after a heated three-day public debate over an audio recording between a ruling party member and an official from the Serb-majority north. Kosovo’s opposition has long accused nationalist Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s handling of tensions in the north […]
Bill Clinton tells Kosovo: stop “foolishness” in Serb-majority north
Tirana, AlbaniaReuters Former US President Bill Clinton, largely credited for ending the Kosovo war more than two decades ago, on Monday told Kosovo’s government to stop its actions in the Serb majority north, where tension has flared over the past few months. Kosovo’s northern region, home to 50,000 ethnic Serbs, has recently seen its worst […]