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Israel's national soccer team arrive at a hotel, in the capital Pristina, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. Israel’s national soccer team has arrived in Kosovo amid tight security measures at the airport ahead of a postponed European Championship qualifier. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Israeli national team arrives in Kosovo for soccer game under tight security measures

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Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday, June 8, 2023. Kurti on Thursday complained of bias to his country from the United States and the European Union and tolerance towards Serbia what he called as authoritarian regime. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo complains of biased western envoys in talks with its former foe Serbia

By Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Polish soldiers, part of the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo KFOR, guard a municipal building in the town of Zvecan, northern Kosovo, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo have used metal fences and barbed wire to beef up positions in a northern town following clashes with ethnic Serbs that left 30 soldiers wounded. (AP Photo/Marjan Vucetic)(AP Photo/Marjan Vucetic)

Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo gather in northern town after clashes with NATO-led peacekeepers

By Radul Radovanovic - Associated Press

Serb police officers took off their uniforms in the town of Zvecan, Kosovo, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. Representatives of the ethnic Serb minority in Kosovo on Saturday resigned from their posts in protest over the dismissal of a police officer who did not follow the government's decision on vehicle license plates. Earlier this week Pristina authorities dismissed a senior Serb police officer in northern Kosovo, where most of the ethnic Serbs live, who refused to respect the decision to change vehicle license plates in Kosovo to ones issued by Kosovo. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

Kosovo’s ethnic Serb police, lawmakers resign en masse

By Zenel Zhinipotoku and Llazar Semini - Associated Press

British-Kosovar singer Dua Lipa performs on stage during her first concert held in Kosovo's capital Pristina, at the Germia Park on Tuesday Aug. 9, 2016. While Albania’s capital Tirana is bristling with preparations for holding an international music festival, its neighboring Kosovo’s counterpart Pristina is swarmed into political confrontations after losing it. The Sunny Hill Festival will be held this year Aug. 4-7 in Tirana instead of Pristina following a political controversy between Kosovo’s leftwing Self Determination Movement!-led government and opposition Democratic League of Kosovo running the capital. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu, File)

Festival founded by Dua Lipa’s father returns to Kosovo

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U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Ambassador Richard Grenell speaks during a press conference after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) ** FILE **

Kosovo PM hails as ‘positive signs’ recent deals with Serbia

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Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, comforts Hafiz Musafaj, during his visit to the Recak memorial, in the village of Recak on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, where he called on Serbia to apologize for the genocide on his country as the first step toward a peaceful future relationship. Thaci, a former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army independence fighters, or KLA, said that during its genocide campaign in 1998-1999 Serbia committed some 400 massacres, killing about 13,000 civilians, including 1,300 children. Some 1,650 are still unaccounted for. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovo president hurt by ‘amnesty’ on Serbia crimes in war

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A mask covers the mouth and nose of the St. Mother Theresa with a child statue during smog and heavy air pollution in Kosovo capital Pristina, on Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

EU funds help Kosovo fight unhealthy air pollution

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Kosovo prepares warm welcome for England fans and players

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Kosovo opposition rallies over activist who died in custody

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Aleksandar Vucic, the president of Serbia, center, prepares to speak during a session of Serbia's parliament in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, May 27, 2019. Vucic addressed the Serb parlamentarians during a session devoted to the situation in Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

The Latest: UN says 2 employees hurt in Kosovo police action

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Pristina, Kosovo - February 17, 2017 - School children march in downtown Pristina with Kosovo flags on the ninth anniversary of independence from Serbia. Kosovo is the newest nation in Europe and the second newest in the world after South Sudan. On February 17, 2018, Kosovo will mark its 10-year-anniversary as an independent nation.Valerie Plesch/Special to The Washington Times

Kosovo marks 10th anniversary of independence amid political, economic uncertainty

By Valerie Plesch - Special to The Washington Times

Kosovo environmentalists protest heavy pollution levels

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The opposition set up tents in front of the government building in Pristina, Kosovo, to continue protests to bring down the government. The protests decry EU-brokered deals with Serbia and Montenegro, which they say breach Kosovo's constitution. (Valerie Plesch/The Washington Times)

Kosovo erupts in chaos as opposition pushes more Serbian power

By Valerie Plesch - Special to The Washington Times

Kosovars crowd the bus station in the capital city of Pristina. An estimated 50,000 people left Kosovo during January and February in search of better economic opportunities throughout Western Europe, many of them illegally crossing borders. (Valerie Plesch/Special to The Washington Times)

Kosovo political, economic crisis sparks mass exodus of youth seeking jobs, opportunity

By Valerie Plesch - Special to The Washington Times