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EU urges Kosovo, ethnic Serbs to start 'serious dialogue' after vote boycott

The European Union called on Kosovo's government and ethnic Serbs to start a "serious dialogue" to bring them back into state institutions after they boycotted local elections to press demands for more autonomy.

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Serbian leader lashes out at the West over Kosovo vote

The Serbian president has sharply criticized Western officials who are mediating talks on normalizing ties with Kosovo, calling them liars and fraudsters, and says the Serb minority in the former Serbian province won’t tolerate foreign “occupation.”

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Serbians boycott local elections in northern Kosovo

Serbs in Kosovo are boycotting elections to protest their demands for more autonomy not being met in a sign a peace deal is not working.

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Serbs in north Kosovo boycott local elections

Serbs in northern Kosovo boycotted local elections on Sunday in protest that their demands for more autonomy have not been met, in another sign that a peace deal signed between Kosovo and Serbia last month is not working.

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Main ethnic Serb party calls for vote boycott in north Kosovo

The main political party in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo called on the Serb community on Friday to boycott Sunday's local elections in the latest sign of a deepening rift with Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leadership.

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Kosovo puts voting containers in Serb majority areas despite boycott

Kosovo's election commission has put containers by main roads for Sunday local elections in the northern part of the country even though the Serb majority there plans to boycott the vote.

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European Union approves visa-free travel for Kosovo citizens

European Union parliamentarians on Tuesday gave the green light for citizens from Kosovo to travel freely in Europe without visas from next year. Kosovo, once a Serbian province in the former Yugoslavia, is the last territory in the Western Balkans without visa-free travel to the EU's Schengen travel area.

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War crimes trial of Hashim Thaçi, the 'George Washington of Kosovo', will do little to reduce tensions in the Balkans

Hashim Thaçi, the former president of Kosovo and a founding member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), has been described as “one of the key figures” in the country’s recent history. He was elected as prime minister in January 2008 and declared Kosovo’s independence a month later.

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EU lawmakers green-light visa free travel for Kosovo

European Union lawmakers have given the green light for citizens from Kosovo to travel freely in Europe without visas from next year

The Independent UK

Spike Milligan’s former Hyde Park mansion to become new Kosovan embassy in £6.5m sale

The Goon Show, Thunderbirds and Dr Who and the Daleks were all produced at the Hyde Park mansion

Evening Standard

Kosovo police arrest three men for beating journalist

Kosovo police said on Wednesday they had arrested three men accused of beating a prominent journalist a night earlier after he left the studio where he had participated in a talk show.

Reuters

Kosovo police suspend four officers they accuse of wounding a Serb

Kosovo police on Tuesday suspended four officers who they accused in a statement of being involved in the wounding of a local Serb in the volatile north of the country and trying to hide the incident.

Reuters

War crimes tribunal centres on how much former Kosovan president knew

Once feted by Tony Blair and Madeleine Albright, Hashim Thaçi stands accused in The Hague of complicity in torture and murder

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Kosovo Serbs refuse to participate in local elections

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo will not participate in local elections due to be held later this month - a move likely to aggravate current disagreements over Pristina's rule.

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Ex-Kosovo president tells international judges he's innocent

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci has insisted he is an innocent man as he addressed a panel of international judges hearing his trial on 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity

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Ex-Kosovo leader Thaci tells war crimes court he will be exonerated

Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci expressed sorrow on Tuesday for all victims of the 1998-99 insurgency against Serbian rule but told judges on the second day of his war crimes trial that he expects to be exonerated.

The Independent UK

Watch live: Defence for Kosovo ex-president Thaci makes opening statements in war crimes trial

Watch live as defence lawyers for Hashim Thaci make opening statements on the second day of his trial for alleged war crimes trial at The Hague on Tuesday, 4 April.

Reuters

Factbox - Guerrilla commander, statesman, defendant: Kosovo's Hashim Thaci

Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci went on trial at the Kosovo war crimes tribunal on Monday accused of responsibility for killings of civilians during the 1998-99 uprising against Serbian rule when he was guerrilla commander.

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The Independent UK

'Nobody is above the law:' Kosovo ex-president's trial opens

Kosovo’s former president has pleaded not guilty to charges including murder, torture and persecution as he went on trial with three other former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army

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Watch live: Kosovo’s ex-president goes on trial for 1990s war crimes

Watch live as Kosovo's former president goes on trial accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1990s.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kosovo’s Former President Pleads Not Guilty to War Crimes Charges

Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci on Monday pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity as his trial opened at a special court in The Hague. Allegations of persecution, murder, torture and forced disappearance of people stem from the 1998-99 insurgency that eventually brought independence…

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Former Kosovo president Thaci pleads not guilty to war crimes

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci on Monday pleaded innocent to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity as his trial began at a special court in The Hague, with protesters rallying outside in support of a leader once feted by the West.

Al Jazeera

Ex-Kosovo president Hashim Thaci pleads not guilty to war crimes

Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants are charged with war crimes in 1998-1999 war with Serbia.

France 24

Former Kosovo president Thaci pleads not guilty as war crimes trial begins

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci on Monday pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity as his trial opened at a special court in The Hague.

Reuters

Factbox-A look at past state leaders who faced international justice

Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, considered a hero by compatriots for leading the 1998-99 insurgency against Serbian rule that led to independence, will go on trial on Monday for suspected war crimes during the conflict.

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