Kosovo War
Nora Gjakova of Kosovo, top, reacts as she competes with Tsukasa Yoshida of Japan in their women's -57kg semifinal judo match, at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, July 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Judoka Nora Gjakova wins gold on mourning day for Kosovo

Jul. 26, 2021 07:29 AM EDT

Funa Tonaki, top, of Japan, reacts after losing to Distria Krasniqi, of Kosovo, in their women's 48-kg judo gold medal match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Kosovo hails Krasniqi's gold medal in judo at Tokyo Games

Zenel Zhinipotoku And Llazar Semini Jul. 24, 2021 08:58 AM EDT

Vendor Ibrahim Gashi, arranges weekly and monthly magazines at his newspaper kiosk were he has been selling newspapers downtown for 35 consecutive years except one, in the capital Pristina, Thursday, April 29, 2021. The printing presses stopped running at the start of the pandemic in Kosovo. The country's five dailies all stopped printing physical newspapers and turned into online media portals. But these do not reach all the people as before, and many fear they prioritise speed over accuracy. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Pandemic leaves Kosovo without printed daily newspapers

By Florent Bajrami And Llazar Semini May. 03, 2021 06:32 AM EDT

Russia tries to ban Kosovo flag at UN -- unsuccessfully

By Edith M. Lederer Apr. 13, 2021 06:51 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia tried for the first time Tuesday to prevent Kosovo’s representative from speaking at the U.N. Security Council with the country’s...

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021 file photo, Albin Kurti leader of Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in capital Pristina, Kosovo. Kosovo’s newly-elected parliament has approved the new government challenged by the management of the virus pandemic following recent surging numbers. In an extraordinary session after the first one held earlier Monday, March 22, 2021 the parliament voted 67 in favor and 30 against the new Cabinet presented by Prime Minister Albin Kurti. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu, file)
Kosovo’s new parliament elects new government

By Zenel Zhinipotoku And Llazar Semini Mar. 22, 2021 08:22 AM EDT

Kosovo’s new parliament convenes next week to nominate PM

Mar. 15, 2021 05:26 PM EDT
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s new parliament holds its first session next week to discuss and likely nominate the new prime minister. ...

Election commission employees count casted ballots after the polls closed in parliamentary elections in capital Pristina, Kosovo on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo’s voters defied freezing weather to vote in an early parliamentary election to form a new government amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)
Left-wing party wins Kosovo poll, needs ally to form cabinet

By Zenel Zhinipotoku And Llazar Semini Mar. 04, 2021 07:57 AM EST

Serbian Orthodox Church bishops arrive in the St. Sava temple before church closed session in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. The Serbian Orthodox Church gathers in closed session to pick a new Patriarch, following the death of old one Irinej. Irinej died last year of COVID, following the outbreak of virus among church officials in Belgrade. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serbian Orthodox Church picks ally of president as patriarch

By Dusan Stojanovic Feb. 18, 2021 01:27 PM EST

Albin Kurti leader of Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in capital Pristina, Kosovo on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo's main opposition Self-Determination Movement party or Vetevendosje! has won a clear victory in an early election held amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)
Kosovo's leftist opposition party gains landslide win

By Llazar Semini Feb. 15, 2021 03:22 AM EST

Election commission employees count casted ballots after the polls closed in parliamentary elections in capital Pristina, Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Kosovo’s voters defied freezing weather to vote in an early parliamentary election to form a new government amid the coronavirus pandemic, an economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/ Visar Kryeziu)
Leftist opposition party heads to victory in Kosovo election

By Llazar Semini Feb. 14, 2021 01:02 AM EST

Supporters of Ramush Haradinaj, candidate for prime minister of the Alliance for the Future of Kosova (AAK), gather during a rally in the town of Peja, Kosovo, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. Kosovo holds an early general election on upcoming Sunday Feb. 14, amid the coronavirus pandemic, economic downturn and stalled negotiations with wartime foe Serbia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Economy, not Serbia, dominates Kosovo election campaign

By Llazar Semini Feb. 12, 2021 06:49 AM EST

In this photo provided by NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR), Italian soldiers decorate lights on the Christmas Eve in the KFOR military headquarters in Kosovo capital Pristina, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has totally changed Christmas time operation method and celebrations for the Kosovo Force but it has left unchanged its mission: keeping Kosovo safe and secure for 22 years now on. (KFOR via AP)
Virus changes work, not goal, of Kosovo's NATO peacekeepers

By Florent Bajrami And Llazar Semini Dec. 25, 2020 03:51 AM EST

Kosovo Albanian Fadil Rama, right, holds a cup of water for a Kosovo Serb Blagica Dicic a lonely 92-year old woman in a remote village of Vaganesh, Kosovo on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, abandoned by all her former ethnic Serb neighbors. Blagica Dicic is in failing health, and is the only resident of a remote ethnic Serb minority village in the mountains of eastern Kosovo that’s been abandoned by all its other inhabitants, even her own children, but Fadil Rama, 54, comes from the other side of Kosovo’s bitter ethnic divide. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Kosovo ethnic divide eases as Muslim cares for elderly Serb

By Llazar Semini Dec. 02, 2020 05:12 AM EST

Serbian police officers guard the street during a protest against a festival ''Mirdita-Dobar Dan'' organized by liberal groups from Serbia and Kosovo, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Serbian police prevented dozens of right-wing extremists from disrupting a youth cultural event with Kosovo after similar groups in the past weeks broke into a cartoon exhibition and threatened artists in a theatre play about the 1995 killings in Srebrenica. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serb police block right-wing disruption of event with Kosovo

Oct. 22, 2020 03:11 PM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 21, 2019 file photo, Kosovo president Hashim Thaci gestures during a press conference in Kosovo capital Pristina. Kosovo’s president and nine other former separatist fighters were indicted on a range of crimes against humanity and war crimes charges, including murder, by a court investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after Kosovo’s 1998-99 independence war with Serbia, it was reported on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu, File)
Kosovo president, indicted for war crimes, heads back home

Zenel Zhinipotoku Jun. 26, 2020 09:30 AM EDT

Kosovo's Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti, left, is welcomed by European Council President Charles Michel prior to a meeting at the Europa building in Brussels, Thursday, June 25, 2020. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)
Kosovo PM cancels trip to US for talks with Serbia

Sylejman Kllokoqi And Llazar Semini Jun. 25, 2020 06:31 AM EDT

Supporters of the Vetevendosje political party react with police, as the parliament holds an extraordinary session to elect the new Prime Minister, in the capital Pristina, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Kosovo’s parliament voted in a new prime minister Wednesday to lead a fragile coalition government that will inherit the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and stalled normalization talks with neighboring Serbia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Kosovo lawmakers vote in new center-right prime minister

By Zenel Zhinipotoku And Llazar Semini Jun. 03, 2020 08:58 AM EDT