Turkey Sends Thousands of Kamikaze Drones to Kosovo, Threatening Balkan Stability

A Serbian Army base located near the Kosovo border. Credit: Vojska Srbije, CC BY 3.0 rs/Wikipedia Turkey has dispatched thousands of kamikaze drones to Kosovo this week, potentially heightening regional tensions in the Balkans. Kosovo’s Prime...

Petkovic, acting UNMIK head discuss political, security situation in Kosovo-Metohija

BELGRADE - The director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the acting head of the UN mission in Kosovo-Metohija (UNMIK) Milbert Dongjoon Shin in Belgrade on Wednesday to inform him of the political and...

Henson named Paragould police chief

A longtime law enforcement veteran was selected Thursday as the next police chief in Paragould, according to city officials. Chad Henson, who recently served as commander of the 2nd Judicial District Drug Task Force, will become police chief Nov....

Vucic: We expect further support from Iran on Kosovo-Metohija issue

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received the credentials of new Iranian Ambassador to Belgrade Mohammad Sadeq Fazli on Wednesday, noting that Serbia was grateful to Iran for its principled position of non-recognition of the...

More Balkan Activists Held as Israel Thwarts New Gaza Flotilla

Screenshot of CCTV footage from the Conscience Ship in waters near Israel. Photo: Instagram/gazafreedomflotilla Turkish and Kosovo Albanian activists were among those detained on Wednesday by the Israeli Navy following a raid on the Conscience...

Fort Dodge, Kosovo relationship is worthy of support

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has Americans thinking about foreign affairs in a way that they probably have not done in a long time. Among other things, the war has made it clear once again that peaceful bonds of friendship need to be forged...

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Are Americans Better Or Worse Off Since January?

The left wing and media rage hysterically from one Trump psychodrama to the next, while President Donald Trump trolls both on social media. But all that is verbiage. What matters is the data and facts of Trump’s first nine months since January 20,...

Charlotte hires former Raleigh police chief

CHARLOTTE – Estella Patterson is returning to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department to serve as the first female police chief in city history. Patterson, who started her career in law enforcement with CMPD in 1996, went on to become the...

Deputy Foreign Minister Shekerletova Attends Launch of Western Balkan Cultural Project at Foreign Ministry

Speaking at the launch of a project titled "Rethinking Cultural Cooperation in the Western Balkans" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Elena Shekerletova said that cultural diplomacy can strengthen trust,...

Fire claims three lives in Kosovo informal settlement

Three people have died during the early hours of Monday morning when a fire broke out in the Kosovo informal settlement in Philippi. At least six structures caught fire and were destroyed, leaving 14 people displaced and three people dead. The...

Ireland’s maths gender gap: why boys are getting twice as many top grades

In Kosovo this April, a team of four girls between the ages of 15 and 18 represented Ireland at the prestigious European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO). They achieved our second-best set of results since the competition was founded in 2012,...

Imminent End to Kosovo Deal on Serbs’ Diplomas a Fresh Blow to Integration

A mechanism for the verification of diplomas issued by a Serb-run university in northern Kosovo is at risk of expiring, in a fresh blow to efforts to integrate Serbs in the majority-Albanian country. For a decade, working through the NGO European...

Albania dismisses Serbian claims over Kosovo

TIRANA, Oct. 7 (TemA) — Albania’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday rejected a Oct. 4 statement by Serbia’s Foreign Ministry as “baseless,” saying it seeks to pull the region back to past conflicts. In a press note, Tirana said it “forcefully rejects”...

Adjaye Associates appointed to design education centre in Rwanda

The Aegis Trust has appointed Adjaye Associates to design the Isōko Centre for Humanity, a new project in Bugesera, Rwanda, that seeks to promote memory, education and reconciliation. The centre is intended to serve as an international base for...

Western Balkans Delegates Gather in Sofia and Plovdiv for Cultural Diplomacy Seminar

The State Institute for Culture at the Minister of Foreign Affairs is organizing a working visit to Bulgaria mottoed "Rethinking Cultural Cooperation in the Western Balkans". The event is taking place in Sofia and Plovdiv on October 6-10 and is...

Belgium wants to send foreign criminals off to Albania or Kosovo

Belgium is looking beyond the European Union’s borders to house foreign criminals that are also illegal migrants, who account for a third of all prisoners in the country’s overcrowded jails. Among a prison population of 13,000, which has led to...

British MP: Serbian Orthodox Church Involved in Arms Smuggling for Militias in Kosovo

British MP Alicia Kearns has accused the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) of taking part in arms smuggling from Serbia into Kosovo. Speaking during a session of Parliament, Kearns claimed that weapons are being transported from Serbia to Kosovo in...

Political Reactions Following the Death of Fatos Nano

The leader of the Democratic Union for Integration (BDI), Ali Ahmeti, reacted to the passing of former Prime Minister Fatos Nano through a post on Facebook. Ahmeti expressed his condolences, describing Nano as a man of vision and political wisdom....

Castletown Community Church opens doors for donations to Blythswood shoebox appeal

Since their first Shoebox Appeal in 1993, Blythswood has sent more than 2.8 million boxes to those in need.Blythswood coordinator for Castletown and the surrounding communities, Mrs Christine Stone, will be launching this year’s Shoebox appeal on...

Ram Madhav writes: The UN is dead. Long live multilateralism

The United Nations celebrated its 80th anniversary this week. The spurt of articles seeking to project the organisation as the only panacea for mankind betrayed a sense of anxiety about its future. Ban Ki-Moon, former UN Secretary General,...