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EXPLAINER: Why do Kosovo-Serbia tensions persist?

Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew during the past week after Serbs erected barricades on the main roads in the north of the former Serbian province to protest the arrest of a former Kosovo Serb police officer

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EU's Borrell urges Kosovo and Serbia to de-escalate after latest clashes

Kosovo and Serbia must de-escalate a tense situation in the region, the European Union's foreign policy chief said, after Serb protesters in northern Kosovo blocked main roads for a third day on Monday.

Reuters

Serbia's president says Belgrade seeks to deescalate situation in Kosovo

Serbia demands the release of all arrested Serbs from northern Kosovo, but also seeks to defuse tensions there following tensions in the restive region, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday.

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Serbia’s Vucic says will ask NATO permission to deploy troops in Kosovo as tensions flare

Kosovo Serbs and local police exchanged gunfire on Saturday after a flareup of tensions in the volatile northern part of Kosovo. Elections that were due to take place next Sunday have been moved to April, and Serbia's president said he would ask NATO's peacekeeping mission to allow him to deploy…

France 24

Serbs in Kosovo clash with police as ethnic tensions flare

Serb protesters in northern Kosovo blocked main roads for a second day on Sunday following a nighttime exchange of fire with police after the arrest of a former Serb policeman, amid rising tensions between authorities and Kosovo's Serb minority.

Reuters

Kosovo postpones local election in ethnic-Serb-dominated north

The election was due as ethnic Serb representatives resigned to protest a ban on Serbia-issued vehicle licence plates.

Al Jazeera

Tense overnight violence in north Kosovo, Serbs block roads

Kosovo police and the local media have reported explosions, shooting and road blocks over night in the north of the country, where the majority of the population is ethnic Serb

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Kosovo police exchange gunfire with local Serbs blocking roads to protest officer's arrest

Kosovo Serbs and the country's police exchange gunfire after a flare-up of tensions in the volatile northern part of the country.

ABC News

Serbia’s Vucic seeks NATO approval to send forces to north Kosovo

Serbian president said he was under ‘no illusion’ that NATO would agree to his request amid tension in northern Kosovo.

Al Jazeera

Serbia to ask NATO to deploy Serb military, police in Kosovo - Vucic

Serbia will ask NATO peacekeepers to let it deploy Serbian military and police in Kosovo, in line with the provisions of a UN Security Council resolution which ended a war there in 1999, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday.

Reuters

Kosovo postpones election in ethnic-Serb-dominated north

Kosovo has postponed a local election due to be held Dec. 18 in four municipalities with a predominantly ethnic Serb population, in an effort to defuse recent tensions there that have also caused relations with neighboring Serbia to deteriorate further

The Independent UK

Kosovo police exchange fire with local Serbs blocking roads

Kosovo Serbs and country’s police exchanged gunfire on Saturday after a flareup of tensions in the volatile northern part of the country.

Reuters

Officer injured in shooting amid tension in northern Kosovo

Kosovo police say armed men fired guns from a vehicle, injuring one officer

The Independent UK

Kosovo police officer wounded in volatile northern region

A police patrol was attacked on Thursday in Kosovo's volatile north, injuring an officer, two hours after police troops were sent in the region in an attempt to replace hundreds of Serb cops who resigned last month over a car plate dispute.

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FIFA fine Croatia over fans' xenophobic chants

Doha (AFP) - FIFA on Wednesday sanctioned World Cup quarter-finalists Croatia following abuse by their fans targeting Canada's goalkeeper Milan Borjan.

Reuters

Explosions heard in Serb majority areas in Kosovo, no injuries reported - police

Kosovo police said explosions were heard and shots fired on Tuesday as it escorted a state election commission delegation to visit municipalities in the Serb majority areas in the north, but no injuries were reported.

Reuters

EU drafts new proposal for Kosovo-Serbia ties - senior EU diplomat

The European Union has drafted a new proposal for normalisation of ties between Kosovo and Serbia with a clear timeline of actions, according to a senior EU diplomat, speaking on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Host Albania has high hopes for EU-Western Balkans summit

Albania’s prime minister says a European Union summit in his country’s capital this week demonstrates the EU’s heightened geostrategic interests in the Western Balkans region during Russia’s war in Ukraine

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The Independent UK

Enlargement back on EU's agenda at Western Balkans summit

The war in Ukraine has put the European Union’s expansion at the top of the agenda as officials from the Western Balkans and EU leaders prepare to meet Tuesday

The Guardian - UK

Game of cojones: Serbia suffer and give Granit Xhaka the last word

Switzerland’s captain offered a snapshot of the bad blood between Albania, Kosovo and Serbia with one crude gesture

Al Jazeera

Serbia’s Vucic to boycott EU summit with Western Balkan leaders

The Serbian president has been outraged by the appointment of Kosovo’s minister to ethnic groups.

The Guardian - UK

Switzerland and Serbia feel the weight of history before high-stakes clash

The scars of the Kosovo conflict are yet to heal for Switzerland and Serbia as both sides pledge no repeat of 2018 World Cup flashpoints

Al Jazeera

World Cup 2022: Switzerland vs Serbia match preview

Switzerland are well placed to seal the second spot in Group G.

Evening Standard

From Kosovo to Camden — how Dua Lipa became one of the biggest pop stars in the world

As the singer accepts her Albanian citizenship, Amy Francombe charts her life as the child of Kosovan refugees to a teenager living alone in London (and the phenomenal success that’s followed)

The Independent UK

‘Honoured’: Dua Lipa celebrates as she’s granted Albanian citizenship by country’s president

‘Got my Albanian citizenship!!’ singer wrote

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