1 year agoThis morning, the team on GeoBarents rescued 13 people, including 2 women and 2 unaccompanied minors, who were in distress on a unseaworthy rubber boat. The survivors had spent more than 3 days at the Mediterranean sea
JosepB orrell:Very alarmed by situation in north of Kosovo: extrajudicial arrests of K-Serbs & Kosovo Security Forces marching in South Mitrovica; followed by heavy rhetoric from Serbia. Despite yesterday's crisis meeting, escalation continues & is becoming dangerous. We will not tolerate it
Moldova MFA summoned Russian Ambassador after representative of Russian occupation authorities in parts of Kherson region threatened to strike a bridge in Moldova
1 year agoGracanica/Kosovo Dozens of locals gathered on Thursday in front of the police station at the Serb majority municipality, in protest against the arrest of Kosovo Serb D.S. on one war crime charges one day prior
EU Enlargement: Today, the EU Commission will present the oral assessment of progress in the implementation of the preconditions for EU membership by Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia
Police arrested a Kosovo Serb suspected of committing war crimes against ethnic Albanians while he was a prison guard during the 1998-99 conflict, causing a protest by locals in the Serb-majority municipality of Gracanica
Blast occurs at Romania's black sea petromidia refinery, emergency response unit says - Reuters
1 year agoTurkish activity with 6 (at least) UAVs in different altitudes at east Thrace
.@StateDept has today called on Vucic and Serbia "to immediately and unconditionally release the three Kosovo police detained on June 14. Their arrest and ongoing detention on spurious charges has exacerbated an already tense situation"
Kosovo says Serbia "kidnapped" 3 policemen inside its territory, while Belgrade says they were entered to its territory, adding another fuel to their tensions over the mayors in Serbian towns in northern Kosovo
Greece: Seventeen dead after the sinking of a migrant boat in the Ionian Sea
The High Representative of the International Community for Bosnia, Christian Schmidt, and the EU Delegation strongly condemned on Monday the statements of Dario Kordic, in which he disputes responsibility for war crimes
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced the upcoming snap parliamentary elections, and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic announced her resignation
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 6 km SW of Atalánti, Greece
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - Bulgaria
1 year agoVučić: Time for Pristina to form the ZSO, and "want to believe" that the international community has vehicles for realizing the obligations of the Pristina side
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 4 km SSE of Fântânele, Romania
US Treasury OFAC sanctions seven leading members of a Russia intelligence-linked malign influence group for their role in the Russian Federation’s destabilization campaign and continued malign influence campaigns in Moldova
1 year agoThe Turkish special purpose battalion from the 65th mechanized brigade that was transferred to Kosovo* has 450 soldiers and officers plus 20 people from civil-military personnel
Turkey responds to NATO's request for maintaining peace by deploying a commando unit to Kosovo. The unit has set off from Thrace
Under pressure from Western leaders, Kosovo's PM and President said they are open to new local elections in the four northern Serb-dominated municipalities
1 year agoPresident Zelensky met President Maia Sandu during visit to Moldova
1 year agoLocals gather for a fourth day of protests against newly elected mayors in Serb dominant Kosovo north. nnIn the early morning hours on Wednesday, they carried a giant Serbian flag in front of the municipality building in Zvecan
1 year agoKosovo police announced on Wednesday morning that it had stopped a car with Slovenian license plates at the Jarinje border crossing with Serbia and arrested two citizens after confiscating “camouflage masks, emblems with nationalist symbols, documentation.”
1 year agoVučević: The security situation in Kosovo and Metohija is high risk, Serbia has defined a red line
1 year agoIn the north of Kosovo, the night passed peacefully, Serbs have been gathering again since this morning
US Department of State: Kosovo’s actions to forcibly enter municipal buildings has escalated confrontation. Violence against Kosovo Force peacekeepers, police, and journalists is unacceptable. All parties must immediately lower tensions and return to the EU-led Dialogue
Secretary Blinken: The United States strongly condemns yesterday’s attacks against @NATO led Kosovo Force (KFOR) peacekeepers, and urges both sides to take immediate actions to de-escalate tensions and to recommit to EU-led normalization talks
US Ambassador: Cancellation of participation in the military exercise is the first consequence for Kosovo
NATO will send an additional 700 troops to Kosovo, and will also prepare another battalion in case of need - Stoltenberg
