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Business over bylines: How Kosovo’s media is being captured by corporate interests
EurActiv
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July 31, 2025
The bosses of Klan Kosova, one of Kosovo’s biggest media company, have a straight-forward approach to stories concerning their wealthy owners – they ignore them. “We were not allowed to report on things that affected the interests or image of the...
6 Wars Donald Trump Claims to Have Ended — And the Ground Reality Behind Each Bold Presidential Statement
Asianet Newsable
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August 19, 2025
Donald Trump often claims to have ended six wars. Here’s a closer look at the deals and disputes still simmering. 18 Image Credit : Getty Congo and Rwanda’s Ceasefire Still Fragile The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda signed a U.S.-brokered...
Media Censorship in Kosovo at the Behest of Big Business
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa
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With media outlets in Kosovo and the region increasingly concentrated in the hands of major business moguls, journalists say censorship to protect the owners’ interests has become ‘the norm’. A six-month investigation, involving over thirty...
Dua Lipa Loves Love
Harper's Bazaar
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August 19, 2025
It’s a beautiful spring afternoon in Munich, and the city’s squares are full of bleary-eyed people, still celebrating. Scattered around park benches are the last few empties, the universal symbol of a memorable night. It feels as if the whole city...
Serbia’s $1.64 Billion Arms Deal with Israel Risks Destabilizing the Balkans
Great Reporter
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August 19, 2025
The European Union, which has spent two decades trying to stitch together peace in the Balkans, now faces humiliation. Serbia’s $1.64 billion arms deal with Israel—its largest in modern history—not only bankrolls a state accused of genocide in...
Helping Hands and Healing Paws in Kosovo
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 29, 2025
U.S. Army Veterinary Services from Charlie Company, 199 Brigade Support Battalion rarely get the opportunity to interact with the local animal population. When a request came in for help with the stray cat population control on Camp Film City,...
People Globally Are Living Better Lives, More Hopeful About the Future: We Know Because They Said So
Good News Network
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August 19, 2025
Pete Alexopoulos, via Unsplash With civil wars in Myanmar and Sudan, climate change manifestations the world over, instability across the Middle East, and geopolitical tensions abounding in East Asia, Europe, and North America, one would imagine...
The 15th Anniversary of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Kosovo
Diplomat magazine EU
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July 28, 2025
By Roy Lie Atjam The Hague, July 3, 2025 – The Embassy of Kosovo, in partnership with the Asser Institute (Centre for International & European Law), proudly convened an engaging academic conference to celebrate the momentous 15th anniversary of...
Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia
CEPA
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August 19, 2025
Executive Summary Despite the challenge from China, Russia continues to wield influence in the region. Russia and China have a comprehensive strategic partnership based on a relationship that has developed over 30 years, before the collapse of the...
Deadline looms in Kosovo parliamentary stalemate
The Standard
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July 25, 2025
Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti.[AFP] A months long standoff over Kosovo's next parliamentary speaker is dragging the tiny Balkan nation toward an unparalleled crisis, experts warn, ahead of a deadline this weekend. After more than 50...
New NSPM research: How to maintain the lead over Vučić?
Serbian Monitor
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July 25, 2025
The latest survey conducted by Nova srpska politička misao (NSPM) has confirmed that opponents of the government currently outnumber its supporters by about ten percent. However, as emphasised in the presentation of the research, this gap is not...
Deadline looms in Kosovo’s parliamentary stalemate
EurActiv
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July 25, 2025
After more than 50 attempts, Kosovo's MPs now have just two days to meet a court mandate to pick their new speaker, a key step toward Albin Kurti's possible return to office."This is an unparallelled situation, an undefined vacuum and chaos," law...
We took action in Kosovo. Why should Gaza be any different?
The Herald (Scotland)
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July 24, 2025
The UK is threatening more sanctions against [[Israel]] but in reality they have no effect at all. Why would [[Israel]] listen to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer or his Foreign Secretary David Lammy? They have no influence in what is an ongoing...
Scholar awarded Fulbright to document Kosovo’s Jews
Jewish Community Voice - New Jersey
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July 23, 2025
DINA GREENBERG This fall, writer and scholar Dina Greenberg will spend three months in Kosovo, researching the country’s small and dwindling Jewish community as part of a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship. Greenberg, originally from Voorhees and a...
Bulgaria Reaffirms NATO Commitment as Defence Minister Welcomes Troops Returning from Kosovo
Bulgarian News Agency
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Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov welcomed home the mechanized infantry company that participated in NATO’s operational reserve forces in Kosovo (KFOR) over the past three months. The ceremony took place in Macedonia Square in...
Interest in Bulgarian universities is growing among Bulgarians from Ukraine, Moldova and North Macedonia
BNR - Radio Bulgaria
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August 19, 2025
Young people of Bulgarian descent living abroad continue to show sustained interest in enrolling at Bulgarian universities under Decree No. 103 of the Council of Ministers, issued in 1993. The decree provides preferential conditions for our...
EU enlargement: enhancing support while countering scepticism
New Eastern Europe
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August 19, 2025
Surveys on support for the accession of new member states highlight the need to rethink the way the benefits of enlargement policy are discussed, both inside and outside the EU, so as not to miss yet another opportunity. An interview with Bojana...
Experts marvel at Finland's exceptional seat at Ukraine peace talks
Yle Uutiset
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August 19, 2025
The outcome of the discussions remains uncertain, but scholars argue their significance could extend far beyond Ukraine, shaping Europe's future and global power relations. Open image viewer Finnish President Alexander Stubb (third from left),...
Hrvoje Klasić: “We will never agree on who is more to blame.”
Serbian Monitor
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August 18, 2025
It seems that the narrative claiming Croatian interests are behind the organisation of protests in Serbia has taken root only within the leadership of the ruling party and, perhaps, within part of its core electorate. Yet it persists, although,...
Does Donald Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?
BNE Intellinews
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When US President Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for a peace summit on August 8, the statement issued by the White House not only highlighted Trump’s role as peacemaker in the bitter decades-long conflict, but also...