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Kosovo will start within the year the construction of the “New Kosovo” power plant that will provide 24-hour power to Kosovo’s population and alleviate frequent power cuts, Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said on Thursday. “New Kosovo” is Thaci’s label for the “Kosovo C” project, a coal-based power plant with …

Heavy snow storms and icy winds across the Balkans over the last two days caused traffic jams and left thousands in mountainous areas cut off, but also delighted coastal cities that have not seen such snow in many years. At least five municipalities in northern Albania are cut off due …

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, …

KABUL (AFP) – US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi assured President Hamid Karzai Saturday that Washington would accelerate Afghanistan’s reconstruction as part of a new “war on terror” strategy, his office said. Pelosi visited the country at the head of an eight-member Congressional delegation as the United States was reviewing its …

KABUL – U.S. military airstrikes in western Afghanistan killed 13 Afghan civilians and only three militants, the U.S. said Saturday, three days after an American general traveled to the site to investigate. Civilian casualties have been a huge source of friction between the U.S. and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who …

KABUL (AFP) – Three soldiers in the US-led coalition helping to fight a Taliban-led insurgency in southern Afghanistan have died after their patrol was hit by a bomb, according to the US military. The three were killed on Friday in the southern province of Uruzgan, it said in a statement. …

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama administration told a federal court late Friday it will maintain the Bush administration’s position that battlefield detainees held without charges by the United States in Afghanistan are not entitled to constitutional rights to challenge their detention Having considered the matter, the government adheres to its …