Kosovo government

The 120-seat Kosovo Assembly on Sunday elected Ramush Haradinaj, the PDK-led coalition candidate, as new head of the Kosovo government.

61 voted in favor, while one member of the Assembly abstained.

Bajram Rexhepi, the first elected Prime Minister of Kosovo following the 1999 war of independence, died on Monday at the age of 63 in a hospital in Turkey, where he had been receiving treatment for months following a stroke in April this year.

News of the death of Rexhepi was confirmed by his Kosovo Democratic Party, PDK.

The Trepca mining complex is split physically along ethnic lines, but Serb workers in the northern part of the former Yugoslav complex and the Kosovo Albanians in the southern part both have concerns about whether it can keep operating.

The fall of Yugoslavia and post-war ethnic divisions helped bring Trepca to the verge of bankruptcy.

The Kosovo government announced on Wednesday that a decision to expropriate eight houses in the village of Shipitulla in central-eastern Kosovo will be taken on August 11, after the Kosovo Energy Corporation, KEK failed to fully complete the resettlement of residents in order to start digging coal there.

If the government of Kosovo does not honour a pledge to take on the operational costs from international donors, the International Business College Mitrovica, IBCM, will be forced to close in July after the academic year ends.

Photo: Reuters (2012)

After the fall of the Kosovo government, the question is now being posed of who might become the new prime minister.

Sputnik is reporting that it could be Ramush Haradinaj.

After the fall of the Kosovo government, the question is now being posed of who might become the new prime minister.

Sputnik is reporting that it could be Ramush Haradinaj.

The Kosovo Assembly in Pristina passed a motion of no confidence in the Kosovo government, during an extraordinary session, B92's reporter said on Wednesday.

The Kosovo Assembly in Pristina passed a motion of no confidence in the Kosovo government, during an extraordinary session, B92's reporter said on Wednesday.

The Kosovo government is demanding from the international community to change the mandate of UNMIK, UN's mission in Kosovo.

Pristina wants UNMIM to be given the role of a political mission, "so that Kosovo can start negotiations to join the UN."