Supreme Court

Kosovo's Supreme Court said on Wednesday that it has overturned the verdict sentencing ex-minister Ivan Todosijevic to two years in prison for his comments about a January 1999 massacre of Kosovo Albanians in the village of Racak/Recak, which he claimed was staged.

Todosijevic was cleared of inciting ethnic, racial or religious intolerance with his comments.

The horrific death of a carriage horse transporting tourists on the island of Corfu in the scorching heat at noon on Thursday and the images of it lying prostrate on ground have caused a public outcry, prompting the intervention of Supreme Court Deputy Prosecutor Anastasia Massoura.

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR ruled on Tuesday that Albanian had violated former Supreme Court judge Admir Thanza's right to a fair and impartial hearing when he was dismissed from his position after failing a vetting process.

However, the Strasbourg court found that his dismissal was not a violation of his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through higher education with a landmark decision that struck down affirmative action and left colleges across the nation searching for new ways to promote student diversity.

Prizren Basic Court on Tuesday convicted former Kosovo Liberation Army member, Remzi Shala, known by the nom de guerre Molla e Kuqe (The Red Apple) of committing a war crime by kidnapping an ethnic Albanian man from Duhel, a village in the Suhareka/Suva Reka area, during the Kosovo war.

The far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party, which has been backed by jailed neo-Nazi Ilias Kasidiaris, looks set to cross the 3% threshold needed to make it into Parliament, with the latest exit polls showing it clinching as much as 5.6% of the vote.

The Council of State, Greece's highest administrative court, has intervened against the way large tourism investments on small islands are approved.

A former children's basketball coach who was convicted in 2013 to 220 years in prison for sexually abusing 36 minors but was released earlier this year, has been taken back into custody.

Nikos Seiragakis, 59, was arrested in the Athens suburb of Nea Ionia on Tuesday after a Supreme Court prosecutor demanded a re-examination of the decision to grant him early release in April.

The Constitutional Court has dismissed the Supreme Court of Appeals' request to halt the treasury aid allocated to the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), deliberated on the grounds that the party did not participate in the May 14 elections.

The head of the national investigation, Borislav Sarafov, was elected acting chief prosecutor. This happened at an extraordinary meeting of the prosecutor's collegium. They supported the proposal for Sarafov with 8 votes "in favor", one "against".