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Serbia on Thursday formally demanded that its security forces return to the breakaway former Serbian province of Kosovo, despite warnings from the West that such calls are unlikely to be accepted and only add to tensions in that part of the Balkans. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told state RTS...

Tensions were high in northern Kosovo on Sunday, with Serbs blocking roads as shots and explosions rang out and the Serbian president warned that Serbian troops are ready to defend their “homeland” if peace doesn’t prevail. The roads in Serbia’s former province of Kosovo, which proclaimed...

The United Kingdom has launched an independent inquiry into allegations of unlawful killings by its soldiers in Afghanistan more than a decade ago, the country’s defence ministry announced on Thursday. The statutory inquiry headed by senior judge Charles Haddon-Cave will start early next year. It...

According to a senior European Union diplomat speaking on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit on Tuesday, the EU has drafted a new proposal for normalization of ties between Kosovo and Serbia with a clear timeline of actions. The draft proposal was sent to both parties on Monday, the...

Armenia and Hungary have agreed to restore diplomatic relations on December 1 following a 10-year break resulting from Budapest’s controversial extradition to Azerbaijan of a murderer of an Armenian soldier. In February, a Hungarian delegation visited Armenia and announced a cooperation program with...

The European Union will try to set up a specialized court, backed by the United Nations, to investigate and prosecute possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. Ukraine has been pushing for the creation of a special...

In a referendum on Sunday, more than 62 per cent of the Slovenians who turned out to vote were in favor of a bill that restores editorial independence to the national broadcaster, Radio Television of Slovenia, RTVSLO. The current leadership of the public media service—the largest in Slovenia—was...

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell announced overnight that Kosovo and Serbia had reached a deal to end their row over car license plates, which Brussels, Washington and NATO had warned could escalate into violence. “Serbia will stop issuing license plates with Kosovo cities’ denominations,”...

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Twitter on Tuesday morning that he had accepted a request from Washington “for a 48-hour postponement of the introduction of fines” for cars with Serbian plates. The dispute erupted after Kosovo said the country’s ethnic Serbs would be penalized if they did...

The foreign minister of ethnically divided Cyprus offered a bleak outlook Thursday for resuming stalled peace talks any time soon even though a senior United Nations official affirmed the commitment of the world body’s chief to remain engaged in resolving one of Europe’s most intractable conflicts...