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Kosovo Special Court Dismisses Thaci Motion to Scrap Several Charges
Balkan Insight
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July 16, 2025
Hashim Thaci (bottom right) with his co-accused Kadri Veseli (bottom left), Rexhep Selimi (top left), and Jakup Krasniqi (top right) listening to the status conference online on Friday. Photo: Screenshot/Kosovo Specialist Chambers. The Kosovo...
Kosovo war crimes court to rule on motion
Gazeta Tema
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July 16, 2025
The Hague-based Specialist Chambers is expected to rule today on a motion by defence lawyers for former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders seeking to dismiss parts of the war crimes indictment. The motion was filed by legal teams for Hashim Thaçi,...
Türkiye to eliminate FETÖ as threat to country: President Erdoğan
Sabah
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July 16, 2025
Türkiye will continue to fight the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) until it ceases to be a threatening element for the country, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday as the Turkish nation marked the ninth anniversary of the failed coup attempt...
Kosovo president accused of distorting Trump claim on Serbia
Gazeta Tema
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July 15, 2025
Kosovo’s former prime minister has accused President Vjosa Osmani of distorting comments by Donald Trump, after she publicly claimed the former U.S. president had “prevented a Serbian attack” on Kosovo—an assertion sharply denied by Trump’s former...
On its 30th anniversary, the ‘international community’ continues to pervert the truth about ‘genocide in Srebrenica’
Strategic Culture
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July 15, 2025
Calling things by the wrong name adds to the affliction of the world.[1] Višeslav SIMIĆ Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK. Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su There is the American official story regarding Srebrenica. In addition to that...
Kosovo fighter's sentence cut despite court upholding convictions for murder, torture
ABC News - New York
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July 14, 2025
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Appeals judges at a European Union-backed court upheld murder, torture and arbitrary detention convictions against a former Kosovo war liberation fighter Monday. But they cut his prison term from 18 years to 13 years,...
Kosovo Law Institute: Blocked Parliament Directly Affects Citizens' Lives, Implementation of Laws
Beta Briefing
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July 14, 2025
Source: Beta News / Politics | 14.07.25 | access_time 11:42 Kosovo Parliament (BetaPhoto/Armenija Zajmi Besevic) Senior researcher at the Kosovo Law Institute Gzim Shala has pointed out the serious consequences caused by failure to constitute the...
The Bulgarian community in Kosovo preserves its national identity
BNR - Radio Bulgaria
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July 15, 2025
Today, Bulgarian society is largely unaware of the existence of the Bulgarian community in Albania and Kosovo, or of their activities. The book Bulgarian Communities in Albania and Kosovo. Social and Political Processes and Demographic...
Serbia, China launch first joint military drills
Gazeta Tema
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July 14, 2025
Serbia and China will hold their first joint military exercise later this month, marking a new phase in their strategic cooperation, China’s defense ministry announced Monday. Special forces from both countries will participate in “Peacekeepers...
Hague court upholds Kosovo war crimes conviction for Shala
Deutsche Welle
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July 14, 2025
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) member Pjeter Shala saw his conviction upheld but the sentence reduced from 18 to 13 years, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers tribunal in The Hague said on Monday. The tribunal, staffed by international judges and...
Hague Court Cuts Jail Time for Kosovo’s ‘Commander Wolf’
Balkan Insight
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July 14, 2025
Pjeter Shala during the announcement of the appeals verdict, July 14, 2025. Photo: Kosovo Specialist Chambers/Livestream. The Appeals Panel at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on Monday reduced the 2024 sentence handed to former Kosovo...
Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why we’re shaking up art and politics | Carolin Würfel
The Guardian
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July 15, 2025
In February 1990, the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran the headline “Why are they still coming?”, adding: “In West Germany, hatred for immigrants from the GDR could soon reach boiling point.” That year, resentment towards so-called newcomers...
Kosovo town protests after man dies in police custody
Gazeta Tema
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July 13, 2025
LIPJAN, July 13 – Residents in the town of Lipjan protested Saturday after 27-year-old Agon Zejnullahu died during a police arrest. Dozens walked from the municipal building to the local police station—steps from where Zejnullahu collapsed—holding...
Trump Administration Deports Five Men to Eswatini, Expanding Global Gulag in Africa
The Intercept
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July 16, 2025
The United States expelled five men to the Southern African country of Eswatini on Tuesday as part of its ongoing efforts to exile immigrants to so-called “third countries.” The move closely followed the United States’ deportation of eight men —...
Petković upoznao ambasadora Holandije sa situacijom u AP KiM
Tanjug
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July 16, 2025
BEOGRAD - Direktor Kancelarije za Kosovo i Metohiju Petar Petković sastao se danas sa ambasadorom Kraljevine Holandije Martajnom Elhersmaom koga je upoznao sa tokom dijaloga Beograda i Prištine koji se vodi u Briselu, ali i svim eskalatornim...
Serbia contributes to safeguarding of international law, Gasic tells Jenca
Tanjug
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July 9, 2025
BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic met with UN Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Miroslav Jenca in Belgrade on Wednesday, and noted that Serbia contributed to safeguarding of international law,...
A Presidential Race Plagued by Controversy
Hungarian Conservative
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July 12, 2025
This article was originally published in Vol. 5 No. 2 of our print edition. Romania’s Nicușor Dan Wins a Democracy in Ruins Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan won Romania’s presidential run-off on 18 May, defeating George Simion, the candidate of the...
President Convinces NATO Nations to Pay More
American Free Press
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July 10, 2025
By Mark Anderson At the recent NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, President Donald Trump set the tone for the event, dominating the entire gathering. In so doing, he maintained to the sitting defense ministers from NATO’s 32 member states...
Serbia's president rejects Kosovo threat claims
Gazeta Tema
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July 12, 2025
BELGRADE, July 12 – Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on Friday rejected claims from Kosovo that Serbia planned a military escalation, calling them false and politically motivated. “We haven’t mobilised a single soldier,” Vučić said, after...
Kosovo’s Osmani says Trump defused new Serbia threat
Gazeta Tema
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July 10, 2025
WASHINGTON, July 10 – Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani said U.S. President Donald Trump personally intervened in recent weeks to prevent a potential military escalation by Serbia, calling it a decisive act of deterrence. “We have credible...