China on the sideline as Japan plays bigger role in Kosovo
Advertisements for Huawei are ubiquitous in Europe. In Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, a massive electronic sign for Huawei towers above the central square. A similarly large Coca-Cola sign looms over a statue of what any local will tell you is Alexander the ...
Coronavirus pandemic fells first European government, in Kosovo
Kosovo lawmakers voted to remove Prime Minister Albin Kurti, becoming the first nation in Europe to vote out a government over the way it handled the coronavirus outbreak. The government collapsed late on Wednesday, just months after it took office. The vote was called by ...
What does Kosovo mean to Japan?
Serbia's president accuses Russia of massive spying but feels Putin is not in the loop
Serbian intelligence agencies have uncovered a wide-ranging intelligence operation involving Russian spies and members of the Serbian military, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday. Vucic's remarks came after a meeting of the National Security Council that he convened after a video showing a Russian intelligence ...
After jailing jihadis, Kosovo police quiz several women who returned from Syria
Kosovo police and prosecutors have interrogated several of the women who returned from Syria by plane on Saturday, lawyers who took part in the questioning said on Monday. Kosovo brought back 110 of its citizens from Syria, including 32 women, 74 children and four jihadis ...
Putin gets hero's welcome in Belgrade as Serbia seeks leverage over EU-leaning Kosovo
Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced Kosovo's creation of an army as destabilizing for the Balkans during a visit to Belgrade that underscored his ally Serbia's conflicted approach to joining the European Union. President Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party, which is itself facing anti-government protests, mobilized ...
Campaigners say hydropower dam plan threatens Europe's last wild rivers
Plans to build about 3,000 hydropower plants in the Balkans in the next few years endanger Europe's last wild rivers and some of the most important biodiversity hot spots on the continent, campaigners say. Stretching from Slovenia to Albania, critics say the hydropower boom threatens ...
Plans are underway for a European Union-backed special tribunal to try Kosovo Albanian former guerrillas accused of harvesting organs from murdered Serbs during the Balkan country's 1998-99 war, officials say. The move stems from a 2011 report by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty alleging ...
Anniversary of NATO's Kosovo airstrikes fuels Russian cries of hypocrisy
Russian television this past week has blasted viewers with 15-year-old footage of NATO bombing raids, burning buildings and wounded people in the Balkans to step up a media campaign against the West over the Crimea crisis. State TV and newspapers have used the anniversary Monday ...
A Hiroshima-based citizens' group has presented Kosovo with a stone from the 1945 atomic bombing engraved with an image of a Buddhist goddess of mercy. A ceremony to mark the donation of the "Stone for Peace," one of the paving stones for Hiroshima streetcar tracks ...
