Kosovo

After this meeting, leaders from both sides signalled a total unwillingness to compromise on their central demands (Kosovo Albanians for Kosovo's independence; Belgrade for continued sovereignty over Kosovo).

Representatives of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority asserted that Kosovo must become independent, arguing that the violence of the Milošević years made continued union between Kosovo and Serbia impossible.

A Swiss pilot and member of the Nato-led Kosovo Force (Kfor) walks at Nato’s headquarters in Pristina, Kosovo, in June.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police on Tuesday detained an ethnic Serb leader from Kosovo who was the alleged organizer behind a recent shootout with Kosovo police that left four people dead and sent tensions soaring in the region.

Igor Simić, the deputy head of the Serb List, the biggest Belgrade-backed Kosovo Serb party, accused Kosovo’s prime minister, Albin Kurti, of fuelling tensions in the north.

LEPOSAVIC, Kosovo (Reuters) – Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serb protesters on Monday, while Serbia’s president put the army on the highest level of combat alert.

Serbia has condemned NATO-led peacekeepers in neighbouring Kosovo for allegedly failing to stop "brutal actions" by Kosovo's police against ethnic Serbs.

Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo, setting off with police that left one officer and three attackers dead.

Tensions between the two countries have been high since last Sunday when Kosovo police fought around 30 heavily armed Serbs who stormed the Kosovo village of Banjska and barricaded themselves in a Serbian Orthodox monastery.

The event also highlighted the friendly relations between Israel and Kosovo, with Kosovo’s envoy to Israel, Ines Demiri, expressing gratitude for the concept of Zionism.

Thirty peacekeepers from a NATO-led force in Kosovo were with ethnic Serb demonstrators on Monday during protests about the installation of ethnic Albanian mayors in northern Kosovo.

KFOR and Kosovo +25 is the first staging in the north of England after previously being on display at The Fusilier Museum in the Tower of London, The National Museum of Kosovo, and The House of Commons.

On Kosovo’s side, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said while he has personally always advocated for a reciprocal relationship between his country and Serbia, Kosovo would only abolish stickers from Serbian licence plates when its independence was respected.

The populist Serbian leader suggested Kosovo was behind the attack but said he will refrain from directly accusing Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti pending an investigation conducted by Belgrade.

The rule would ban banks and other financial institutions in ethnic Serbian-dominated areas, especially in Kosovo’s north, from using the dinar in local transactions, and require them to use the euro, which is Kosovo's official currency.

In November 2012, the Forum of Young Muslims of Kosovo joined the insulting propaganda, carried out by some Kosovo imams (Irfan Salihu, Shefqet Krasniqi, etc.), Skenderbeu, Mother Teresa.

Serbia has actively pushed for some of the 100-plus countries which have recognized Kosovo to withdraw that diplomatic blessing, as Kosovo lobbies for more formal statehood endorsements.

The outgoing Kosovo Premier Albin Kurti has said that the Kosovo government has decided to annul tariffs on imports from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s outgoing parliament speaker says he was questioned at a Netherlands-based court investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after the country’s 1998-99 war.

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo police say they have arrested two ethnic Serb police officers over the slaying of a moderate Serb politician almost two years ago.