Hundreds of Serbs gathered on Monday in the village of Pasjan/Pasjane, some 55 kilometres east of Pristina, to protest against the arrest of five people on war crime charges last Saturday. Holding signs with slogans reading: “They arrest us to expel all Serbs [from Kosovo]”, “We demand [NATO’s Kosovo force] KFOR protection”, and “They are…
Nine offices run by the Serbian national postal service Posta Srbije were closed down in a Kosovo Police operation, which follows the Kosovo Central Bank’s decision to end the use of Serbia’s currency, the dinar. Kosovo Police announced on Monday they have closed nine post offices run by Posta Srbije (Serbian Post) in the north…
Under the theme ‘New Order,’ Kosovo’s International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Dokufest, will explore the reconfiguration of the global geopolitical landscape with an artistic order through its diverse film selections and thematic programs. The 23rd edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival, DokuFest, which starts on Friday, will showcase hundreds of films…
Miners at Kosovo’s once mighty Trepca complex are continuing their weeks-long strike over several months’ worth of unpaid wages. Miners at the giant Trepca complex in Kosovo entered the 23rd day of a strike on Thursday over unpaid salaries for June and July. On Thursday, the government said it was reviewing a work plan proposed…
In less than a week since the start of the Paris Olympic Games, Kosovo has already secured two Olympic medals in judo, out of the nine athletes it has sent to the event. As judoka Laura Fazliu was leaving the court on Tuesday evening after winning the third place in her category, she rushed to…
Despite the outward positivity towards the Denmark-Kosovo prison transfer deal, a closer analysis reveals an ugly underbelly to the accord, raising numerous abuse and discrimination concerns. Mohamed Hassan Abdi moved to Denmark from Somalia when he was four years old and lived there throughout his life, never once returning to Somalia following his emigration. Throughout…
The fourth edition of the Sunny Hill Festival in Kosovo, which was founded by global pop star Dua Lipa and her father Dukagjin, was well-received by music lovers, but there were criticisms regarding ticket prices and the need for improvement in infrastructure. The fourth edition of Kosovo’s Sunny Hill festival, joined in the protest against…
A Kosovo court in a retrial on Monday sentenced Dardan Krivaca to life imprisonment for the brutal murder of an 18-year-old woman in August 2021, while his accomplice got 15 years. Ferizaj/Urosevac Basic Court on Monday sentenced Dardan Krivaca to life imprisonment for the aggravated murder of 18-year-old Marigona Osmani in August 2021, in a…
“It is the fourth time I came to the festival,” she told BIRN on Thursday evening, as this year’s edition kicked off, recalling the first event in 2018, when global Kosovo Albanian star Dua Lipa, who together with her father Dukagjin, founded the festival, held her first concert in Prishtina. Global pop start Dua Lipa…
Twenty-five years after the end of Kosovo war, Roma refuges that fled to Serbia still struggle to obtain social inclusion and equal opportunities, and even personal documents, a new report says. Many Roma people who fled Kosovo for Serbia after the Kosovo war in 1999 still feel the consequences in terms of their social exclusion…