With his trademark silk scarf coiled around his scrawny neck, a thin column of blue smoke wafting its way from the ever-present cigarette in his nicotine-stained hand, Ibrahim Rugova was for years a deeply familiar, though enigmatic, figure to journalists and diplomats visiting Kosovo.
No one seems to care about the beaten woman. Instead, those who performed their civic duty are in the dock while their attackers – who clearly pulled strings – remain at liberty.
Their escape from justice is hardly unusual. If they are off the hook because of kickbacks and political influence, that is only because many people in Macedonia know that that is how things get done here.
The Ugandan woman spoke of the months she spent in Albania as the worst time of her life. “Like prison,” she said.
“We didn’t have ID cards, we didn’t have employment permits, we didn’t have passports. Any identification document was withheld and we couldn’t move,” she said.
As Nizam* sped toward Italy on a crowded migrant boat, he filmed what he believed was the final stretch of his harrowing journey.
The 21-year-old house painter from Bangladesh held up his phone, framing his face before panning to roughly 50 others packed onto the white fiberglass vessel. Behind him, a man covered his eyes with his hands, seemingly in tears, while another, smiling, patted him on the back. The boat’s stern sat low as it cut through the twinkling Mediterranean.
Outcome of trial may depend on whether James Rubin’s testimony – that Thaci was just a ‘front man’ for the KLA – is deemed credible.
On Monday, September 17, a rhetorical thunderclap shook the trial of Hashim Thaci and three co-defendants at the Kosovo Special Court in The Hague, KSC, as the defence presented its first witness, James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State from 1997 to 2000.
On August 26, Kosovo’s parliament finally managed to elect a Speaker, Dimal Basha of Vetevendosje, some seven months after general elections took place. Citizens of Kosovo and political observers alike breathed a sigh of relief, hoping this could be the beginning of the end of a frustrating political crisis.
The celebrations may have been premature. With the Speaker elected, the process of constituting Kosovo’s Parliament hit another, apparently insurmountable, hurdle, over the election of a deputy speaker drawn from the Kosovo Serb community. Another intervention by the Constitutional Court is likely to be needed. Meanwhile, negotiations on forming a government have yet to start.
Direktor Uprave za vanjske poslove i dijasporu Rijaseta Islamske zajednice u Bosni i Hercegovini, Muhamed Jusić, danas se u prostorijama Akademije nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine sastao s akademikom Mirkom Pejanovićem, potpredsjednikom Akademije i nekadašnjim članom Predsjedništva Republike Bosne i Hercegovine.
With a new season of ‘Big Brother VIP Kosova’ around the corner, calls are growing for greater moderation of violent, hate-filled content and better media literacy.
Eighteen-year-old Dea Hamiti has watched all three seasons of the Kosovo edition of Big Brother VIP. So have all her friends.
Launched at the 2023 Group of Twenty (G20) summit in New Delhi, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) features three pillars that integrate existing and future infrastructure: a transportation pillar—the corridor’s backbone—integrating rail and maritime networks, an energy pillar with interconnected energy and electricity infrastructure across continents, and a digital pillar providing new fiber-optic cables and cross-border digital infrastructure.
Protestors called for an end to the atrocities and genocide in Gaza.
As global outrage toward the state of Israel grows over the escalating humanitarian crisis and atrocities against Palestinians, several hundred citizens gathered last night in Skënderbeg Square in Tirana to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza.