International Crisis Group

Iranians will head to the polls the day after tomorrow, Friday, to elect a new president from a field of six candidates, including a relatively unknown reformist aiming to challenge conservative dominance.

After a U.S. veto foiled the Palestinians' drive for full U.N. membership, the General Assembly is expected on Friday to grant them some additional rights in the global body — a symbolic win that has already irked Israel.

The U.N. General Assembly will turn its attention to artificial intelligence on Thursday, weighing a resolution that lays out the potentially transformational technology's pros and cons while calling for the establishment of international standards.

WARSAW - More than 10 per cent of Serbs have left Kosovo-Metohija over the past year under sustained pressure by Pristina, according to an International Crisis Group (ICG) report.

The report, titled "Toward Normal Relations between Kosovo and Serbia," said tensions in Kosovo-Metohija had risen since the advent of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

It is also estimated that tensions in Kosovo have increased since the coming to power of the Prime Minister of the temporary institutions of Pristina, Albin Kurti.

Yemen's internationally recognised government has welcomed U.N.-led efforts to end the country's civil war after the warring parties committed to take steps towards a ceasefire.

The United Nations Security Council was due to vote Wednesday on a much-delayed resolution calling for a pause to the Israel-Hamas war after members wrangled over wording while aid efforts in the Gaza Strip neared collapse.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza was rapidly deteriorating, with a senior U.N. official saying Israel's steps to allow in aid were "far short" of mounting need.

According to the document, there are three possibilities for an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, but it is also pointed out that none of them is "ideal".

All parties involved in the stalemated Kosovo-Serbia dialogue should seek an agreement on mutual recognition and the two countries should acknowledge the need for compromise, a new report by the International Crisis Group, ICG, think tank says.

Their real goal is maintenance of the political status quo, which allows them to stay in power, manage their patronage networks and avoid prosecution.

While most of the Croat population in Bosnia and Herzegovina would support the creation of a separate Croat entity, or even secession, the elites would lose too much to genuinely support such a policy.