War Veterans’ Protest Sparks Fresh Rama-Kurti Rift

A protest planned for Friday in Tirana – against the Hague war crimes court's trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci – has reignited feuding between Albania's premier Edi Rama and the biggest party in Kosovo.

Discussion panel on 'Disinformation 'role in Kosovo Election Campaign' in Debat Përnime TV Programme on October 13, 2025. Photo: BIRN

Disinformation in Kosovo’s Local Elections Campaign Raises Concerns
  • October 14, 2025

Disinformation—much of it originating from abroad—has become one of the most pressing challenges in Kosovo, eroding public trust in institutions and deepening ethnic and social divides.

From Paper to Algorithms: Can Artificial Intelligence Heal Kosovo’s Healthcare System?
  • October 14, 2025

Kosovo’s slow progress in digitising its health system has left a gap in data management and patient care. While the world races to integrate artificial intelligence into healthcare, Kosovo still relies extensively on paper records.

Illustration: Besnik Krivanjeva/BIRN.

Kosovo Spy Agency’s Undocumented ‘Special Ops’ Spending: Probe Halted
  • October 13, 2025

Prosecutors in Kosovo have shelved an investigation based on an internal audit at the Kosovo intelligence agency that identified nearly two million euros of alleged undocumented spending under three former directors, BIRN has found.

Kosovo Local Elections Head to Runoffs in Most Municipalities: Early Results
  • October 12, 2025

Early results from Kosovo’s local elections suggest that most municipalities, including the capital Prishtina, are headed for runoffs.

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The Beautiful Risk of Trusting Students in a Changing World

Linda Ziberi
  • October 3, 2025
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The Costly Precedent That Continues to Haunt Kosovo

Agron Halitaj
  • April 28, 2025
Session of the new Kosovo parliament on April 25, 2025. Photo: BIRN

Britain’s Potential Arms Export to Kosovo, Strategic Support or Regional Gamble?

Denora Gashi
  • March 12, 2025
The Kosovo flag is seen in the uniform of a member of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) during a ceremony in Pristina, Kosovo, August 18, 2009. Photo: EPA/VALDRIN XHEMAJ

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Serbia President Aleksandar Vucic (L), EU High Representative Josep Borrell (2-L) and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti (R) at a meeting of the EU-Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue in Brussels on February 27, 2023. Photo: EPA/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

Two Years On, Kosovo- Serbia Normalisation Deal Still Pending
  • March 18, 2025

The EU-facilitated verbal deal to implement the ‘normalisation’ of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, reached in Ohrid, North Macedonia in 2023, continues to hang in the balance as the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue remains nearly paralysed.

NATO General Secretary (L) and Kosovo's President Vjosa Osmani (R) in Prishtina, Kosovo on March 11, 2025. Photo: Official Facebook Account of Vjosa Osmani

NATO General Secretary Urges Leadership and Dialogue for Lasting Peace in the Balkans
  • March 11, 2025

NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte emphasised the need for leadership and commitment from all parties to secure lasting peace and stability in the Balkans during his visit to Kosovo.

Kosovo Optimistic About Becoming Newest Member of Council of Europe, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister
  • March 22, 2024

The Kosovo deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, Kreshnik Ahmeti, told Kallxo Përnime TV programme that the implementation of the Constitutional Court ruling which awarded land to the Decani Monastery will lead to Kosovo becoming the newest member of the Council of Europe very soon.

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Posters at the opening of Anibar International Animation Festival read: “‘Patriarkati: Fabrikë e Dhunuesve (The Patriarchy: a Factory of Abusers)’; ‘Patriarkati: Armik i Përbashkët (The Patriarchy: Mutual Enemy)’; ‘Patriarkati: Fundi po i vjen (Patriarchy: Its end is coming)’." July 15, 2024. Photo: BIRN

‘Smashing the Patriarchy’: Anibar Film Festival Provides Possibilities for Equality

Anibar International Animation Festival

In its fifteenth edition, the Anibar International Animation Festival, in Kosovo’s town of Peja, urges citizens to raise their voices against patriarchal oppression.
Purple flags at the Sunny Hill festival for this year’s festival’s theme “A Flag for Her”, against gender based violence. Photo: BIRN

Sunny Hill festival

Most attendees praise the new out-of-town site of Kosovo’s Sunny Hill festival, which opened on Thursday – though some are less happy about updated ticket prices.

Prishtina

You might have read that Yahoo article about how the best macchiatos in the word are made in Prishtina. But the city has more than that. A visitor spending a day in the newest capital of Europe should take in a macchiato before walking around some of the interesting places, old cultural objects and bars – without which Prishtina would be known only for good macchiato and nothing else.

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