Kosovo and Serbia have no alternative but to reach a final agreement on normalizing ties, Prime Minister Albin Kurti says, adding that the "time is ripe" to do so during his term in office
Two police officers were killed as they tried to stop a bus transporting illegal migrants in Burgas this morning
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 0 km WNW of Týrnavos, Greece
2 year agoMoldova and Ukraine have launched Solidarity Lanes by restoring Basarabeasca - Berezine railway segment
There was a peaceful demo by Greek students on the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki today. So, of course @hellenicpolice had to send in a platoon of heavily armed riot police, just in case they cheated on their test or something. #Greece #απθ
2 year agoOne of the detained Russians in Albania is Svetlana Timofeeva. She has an interesting travel history: border crossings show she traveled many times in the company of "photographers" - at least one of whom was arrested this January in Egypt, and had to be saved by @mfa_russia
2 year agoReports: 3 Russians tried to infiltrate military plant in Albania, 2 caught and one was shot. Albanian soldiers hurt with "chemicals" thrown at them
Albanian prosecutor stating to local media reporting two soldiers injured while arresting three suspected Russian agents, found illegally inside a perimeter of a weapons factory in town of Gramsh
American NATO troops are now deployed at check points in Kosovo after yesterday's unsuccessful EU-led negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo. Also @NATO has announced it is ready to intervene if Kosovo tensions escalate
The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo failed to reach an agreement during the dialogue in Brussels - Borrel
2 year agoMontenegro: Eleven dead and six injured in a shootout in Cetinje
Vucic said that Serbia does not need any military bases, it adheres to neutrality
Bulgaria's capital has been rocked by protests against President Rumen Radev and the politics of his interim government, claiming it is distancing the country from the West and the EU
Riot police attack to residents of the #exarcheia neighborhood, as they demonstrate against the planned metro station at Exarchia Square, August 11, 2022. #εξαρχεια #antireport
President Aleksandar Vučić said today that the state will do its best to bring new domestic and foreign investors to cities where there have not yet been large investments.
The Poles injured in a bus crash on the A4 motorway in northern Croatia on Saturday morning and hospitalised in Varaždin, Čakovec and Zagreb are mainly in stable condition Two are still in critical condition and four have been released and are on their way back to Poland
The Croatian Interior Ministry confirms the media information. One of the people injured in the accident died in the hospital. Fatalities. rose to 12
Two top Greek government officials resigned after being accused of "incorrect actions" by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' office, over an espionage scandal in which an opposition leader's phone was tapped
2 year agoIt was stated that an investigation was launched by the Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office regarding the fire that broke out in the Balıklı Greek Hospital in Istanbul Zeytinburnu.
."@NATO_KFOR stands ready to intervene if stability is jeopardised, based on its @UN mandate", Stoltenberg wrote on Twitter, after a telephone call with Serbian president @avucic.
NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg said after tensions in north of Kosovo that "all sides must engage constructively in the EU-mediated dialogue, and solve differences through diplomacy"
.@SpaceX: Starlink is now live in Moldova
Vučić: I'm going to Brussels on August 18, I don't expect an agreement
Roads in the north of Kosovo are still blocked, new posters and billboards in Mitrovica
Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo: - NATO: we are ready to intervene in case of instability - Serbian Chief of General Staff spoke with KFOR mission command - Kosovo postpones regulation on Serbian license plates and identity documents at the request of the US
Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu holds phone call with Foreign Ministers of Serbia and Kosovo due to tensions. Çavuşoğlu: "Türkiye values peace and stability in the Balkans. We are ready to do what is necessary to calm tensions”
Maria Zakharova: Russia calls on Pristina and the US and EU who are behind it to stop their provocations and observe the rights of Serbs in Kosovo. Russia is pushing for a new front to be opened in the war
Kosovo PM @albinkurti: "[Serbian President] @avucic, and [the Director of the so-called Office for Kosovo] @PetkovicPetar, are responsible for the situation in the north of Kosovo" "The following hours, days & weeks could be challenging and problematic"
2 year agoThe Kosovo police on the main road that leads to Leposavic Photo: Adeline Ahmeti/BIRN
Kosovo police announced that in some location in the Serb majority North Kosovo shootings "some in the direction of police units" have been heard. Police director Samedin Mehmeti told BIRN "there are no wounded"
