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The Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, KPC, on Monday denied the requests of several Serb prosecutors to return to their posts, nearly four years after Kosovo Serbs staged a mass resignation from Kosovo institutions in 2022. Chief State Prosecutor Zejnullah Gashi told the KPC meeting on Monday that while...

The Croatian parliament on Wednesday adopted a resolution proposed by the far-right Homeland Movement, which the party’s president and deputy speaker of parliament, Ivan Penava, said sends a message that Croatia will not stand by while the “electoral will” of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina is...

The European Union on Tuesday condemned the “inflammatory” statement of a Serbian government minister supporting the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians during the 1998-99 war. Snezana Paunovic, Minister for Local Government, on Monday told the Belgrade-based Kurir that she “would have ethnically...

The Hungarian parliament passed a complex constitutional amendment on Monday evening, which – among other measures – ends the current president’s mandate in a single sentence: “On the day following the entry into force of this constitutional amendment, the mandate of the President shall terminate.”...

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo said on Wednesday that “structural and operational shortcomings” continue to undermine the efficiency, consistency, and perceived fairness of war crime proceedings in Kosovo courts and that delays and procedural uncertainty risk affecting the rights of the accused, the...

More than 6,000 people on Wednesday set off from the village of Nezuk on the annual Peace March to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre in Potocari, retracing part of the route taken by thousands of Bosniak men and boys who fled the fall of the UN-declared safe area of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July...

There have been angry reactions in Kosovo after the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on Wednesday said the verdict in the war crimes and crimes against humanity trial of former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi will not be delivered...

Russia hammered Kyiv in an 11-hour drone and missile attack overnight into Thursday morning, killing at least 17 civilians and injuring scores more in what Moscow said was retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities that have caused severe fuel shortages and put pressure on President...

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday has launched its new “Virtual Memories” app that allows users to access virtual memorials at locations of war crimes in Bosnia that have never been officially marked. It includes narratives based on court-established facts, video testimonies of survivors and...

President Zoran Milanovic has stripped Branimir Glavas, a retired military general and politician, of his state decorations, according to a decision published on Wednesday in Croatia’s Official Gazette. The decorations were revoked following a ruling by the High Criminal Court of Croatia, which made...