Xhorxhina Bami

A former KLA unit commander told the Hashim Thaci trial that certain KLA members considered everyone who did not follow them or even met with ethnic Serbs, collaborators of Serbia’s regime, bolstering the prosecution case.Xhorxhina Bami, October 31, 2024Haxhi Mazreku, testifying at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague on Thursday. Photo: Livestream/Kosovo Specialist ChambersIf you were not part of the Kosovo Liberation Army’s (KLA) inner circle you were viewed as a traitor who should be p

Human rights groups have reacted in outrage after Kosovo's version of the 'Big Brother' reality TV series arranged for a contestant to confront her ex-husband, who has been charged with domestic violence, on the set of the show.

Ethnic Albanians in the south of Serbia are protesting at the way the authorities routinely mark their addresses ‘inactive’ –, which means they can no longer vote or renew their IDs.

A witness who was compelled to testify in the war crimes trial of former President Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants in The Hague said the four wartime Kosovo Liberation Army officials couldn't have ordered the crimes.

The presence of high-level delegations from the Balkans at COP29, the UN's latest climate summit in Baku, cannot disguise their foot-dragging in the fight for a greener future.

As Balkan politicians pledge to commit to green transition at the United Nations COP29 climate summit in Baku, their main cities are starting to choke from the annual winter surge in air pollution.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has accused opponents of ‘manipulative propaganda' after socially conservative MPs attacked sex education manuals for teachers to use in schools.

Ethnic Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo accused Serbia of discrimination after the Constitutional Court dismissed a man's appeal against the marking of his address as ‘inactive' in official records, meaning he cannot renew his identity documents.

Albania joined Kosovo in criticising Serbia's practice of marking ethnic Albanians' addresses as ‘inactive', describing it as a "violation of human rights and standards for the protection of minorities".

Ethnic Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo accused Serbia of discrimination after the Constitutional Court dismissed a man's appeal against the marking of his address as ‘inactive' in official records, meaning he cannot renew his identity documents.