Avdullah Hoti

Seven individuals and one company linked to the Islamist terror group Hizballah have been put under sanctions by the Kosovo government following a decision taken by the US administration last month.

The decision, taken by Pristina authorities on Wednesday, was published on the government's website on Thursday.

This is stated in the answer of the unnamed spokesman to the inquiry of the "Voice of America" (VOA) on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Washington agreement.

The report was submitted to the Government of Serbia and the Government of the lnterim Institutions of Pristina, which fulfilled one of the obligations from the Washington Agreement, the American Embassy in Pristina announced on its Twitter account.

During his guest appearance on the morning program of TV Prva, Israeli Ambassador Yahel Vilan was asked why his country recognized the so-called Kosovo, he claimed that Israel did it because it was under pressure from America. Those two sentences immediately provoked reactions from the host who printed out the agreement and showed it live.

Lumir Abdixhiku has been elected the new chairperson of the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, exactly one month after Kosovo's oldest party was humbled disastrously in parliamentary elections, promising to restore the party "to its original place".

Kosovo's Foreign Minister Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla in Budapest in October 2020. EPA-EFE/LAJOS SOOS.

Haradinaj-Stublla quit after allegations of vote-rigging were reported on Sunday by the Insajderi website, which claimed that her husband, Dardan Stublla, bribed election commissioners to help her win a seat at the Kosovo Assembly at parliamentary elections last month.

Marking the 13th anniversary of Kosovo's proclamation of independence, at a ceremony organised at the compound of the Kosovo Security Force KSF, the country's Acting President, Vjosa Osmani, recalled the past struggle for independence and the future goal of "integration into the community of European nations".

Voters in Kosovo will cast their ballots today in snap parliamentary elections - the sixth such poll in 14 years -  which analysts have predicted will be a much tighter race than usual.

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More than 1,000 MP candidates will be keeping their fingers crossed on Sunday, awaiting the voters' verdict in Kosovo's sixth parliamentary elections in under 14 years.

Some 28 political entities are on the ballot papers seeking votes in yet another early election. Since 20017, not one cabinet in Kosovo has succeeded in completing its full four-year term.

With only a few days left before Sunday's snap polls in Kosovo, voters are again having to turn their attention to the election pledges of the political leaders touring towns and villages.