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A Kosovo-born pilot will next month start a fly-in campaign across the Americas to persuade governments to recognise Kosovo, which this week celebrated one year since its declaration of independence from Serbia Texas resident James Berisha, 37, will begin his Flying For Kosovo (www.flyingforkosovo.com ) campaign in March and has …

Kosovo is still using Serbia’s +381 international dialling code for its land lines, despite having no formal agreement or any talks on the issue since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia last year. The head of the parliamentary economic commission, Energy and Transport Minister Myzejene Selmani, said Kosovo should cut this …

A Serbian government package of economic measures to help local companies make it through the global financial crisis will not solve all the economy’s problems for good, but take the edge off the most acute issues, experts say. More than half of the 1.2 billion euro package, which comes into …

Fourteen high officials of the Ministry of Defence were charged on Wednesday with abuse of power and falsifying documents over the deadly blast at army depot outside Tirana last March. Ex-Defense Minister Fatmir Mediu and several former high officials from the ministry were charged last week with abuse of power, …

The convicted Bosnian Muslim Imam that was sentenced to 18 months in jail for sexually molesting an underage girl told the gathering audience in the Bosnian village where he served and committed the crime that he is innocent and his claims were supported by a chorus of little Muslim girls …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with his visiting Croatian counterpart Ivo Sanader to discuss ways to promote bilateral ties as well as international and regional issues of mutual interest. Erdogan said Croatia is a country to which Turkey attaches great importance for peace, stability and welfare in the …

Skopje, 18 February – President Danilo Tuerk wrapped up on Wednesday his two-day official visit to Macedonia, where he met the country’s highest officials and took part in a business forum dedicated to economic cooperation between the countries. Later in the day the president departed for an official visit to …

Bucharest. Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Cristian Diaconescu will meet on Monday his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini to talk about bilateral relations, the Romanian Mediafax informed. The talks would focus on the business environment and the situation of the Romanians in Italy, ministry’s spokesperson Alin Serbanescu told Mediafax. Diaconescu will have …

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha renewed his attacks on a World Bank inspection panel on Wednesday, after its Board of Executive Directors acknowledged that a project meant to safeguard Albania’s coastal zones was used to selectively demolish parts of a village in southern Albania and leave many families homeless. Berisha …

The case of a Macedonian mental patient who says he is a Serb ‘working for Slav-Hellenic friendship’ has sparked a propaganda war between Macedonia and Greece, reaching even diplomats and European Union officials in Brussels. Vasko Gligorov was put in a mental hospital by his family last month for observation …