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Eight international peacekeepers were injured on Thursday during an operation to remove barricades set up by Serbs in northern Kosovo, the NATO-led Kosovo peacekeeping force (KFOR) said. “Eight KFOR soldiers were injured so far in the operation,” KFOR’s press office said in a statement. “They were injured by tear gas, …

KFOR started removing ethnic Serbs’ barricades in North Kosovo on Thursday morning. At 5:45 a.m. local time NATO headed to the barricades with armored carriers and started removing them. The peacekeeping troops called on Serbs to withdraw, saying they would use force. The Serbs refused to leave the site and …

He also called on northern Kosovo Serb leaders to make decisions that are in citizens’ best interest. “I demand from KFOR and EULEX to restrain themselves from the use of force and from local leaders to make decisions that are exclusively in the vital interest of our people in Kosovo …

Russian Minister for Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu says the customs union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will expand to include Montenegro and Serbia. The two are the only states in the region which Moscow has free trade agreements with, the minister said in Podgorica on Wednesday. “This will be an …

Greece has been avoiding meetings over the name despite with Macedonia for several months, while those that have been held were insignificant, said Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. “The economic crisis created better position for

Councilors of four northern Kosovo municipalities are holding a meeting in Zubin Potok to discuss KFOR’s request to ensure freedom of movement. KFOR has warned it is determined to take action if Serbs did not make a decision on removal of the barricades on Wednesday.

A two-day general strike, which will practically paralyze the whole country, will be launched in Greece on Wednesday. The Civil Servants’ Confederation ADEDY representatives explained that workers in Greece could not live on their monthly wages any more, for which

Azerbaijani MP Ganira Pashayeva will today leave for Sofia to observe the presidential elections to be held in Bulgaria on Oct.23 as an observer of PACE. During the visit, Pashayeva will hold a series of meetings, including with the Central Election Commission Chairman and Secretary General of the Supreme Administrative …

A court in Serbia has decided that there are no legal grounds to extradite Bozidar Vucurevic to Croatia where he is wanted for ordering the shelling of Dubrovnik during Croatia’s war of independence. At the time relevant to the accusations, Vucurevic was wartime mayor of Trebinje, a town on the …

Witness due to speak about persecution of Bosniaks and Croats during course of Bosnian war in 1992. The trial of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic before the Hague Tribunal has continued with the examination of a protected prosecution witness behind closed doors.