Kosovo

The women's football club "Dukagjini" from the town of Klina was only recently formed, but has high hopes of success.

The ninth women's football team in Kosovo, their high spirits are on display at a training session on a sunny day in Klina stadium.

Serbia is building sincere and friendly relations with the United States, Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said at the close of his visit to the U.S.

Twelve former Yugoslav Army troops who are being retried for allegedly killing more than 118 Kosovo Albanians near the town of Pec/Peja in 1999 have pleaded not guilty.

Kosovo's Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, on Wednesday said he was cancelling a contract that was awarded to his sons' company for the service of a government limo.

Mustafa told the cabinet at a government meeting on Wednesday that no law had been violated by the offer of the contract.

Ivica Dacic has said that Serbia "finds unacceptable the initiative for Kosovo's UNESCO admission scheduled to be discussed next month."

The Serbian deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs made the comments on Wednesday during his meeting with Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Chepurin.

Prime Minister Edi Rama, who was visiting Puglia in southern Italy, told the online edition of Corriere Della Sera on Tuesday that Albania would welcome Syrian refugees - although refugees crossing the Balkans towards Germany had largely bypassed Albania so far.

The agreement to create a community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo "cannot be linked with the association of municipalities in southern Serbia."

The European Commission made this comment via a spokesperson on Tuesday.

US Vice-President Joseph Biden told Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic by phone on Monday that Washington supports NATO membership for Montenegro, "provided that Montenegro continues pursuing reforms and boosts popular support" for joining.

The 28-member alliance is due to make a decision on Montenegro's membership in December.

Serbia on Monday said that Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will visit the US this week to meet, among others, Vice-President Joe Biden and John Kerry, Secretary of State.

Vucic will also meet Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, and Jim Yong Kim, the President of the World Bank.

After UNESCO decided to look at Kosovo’s membership application - a move that infuriated Serbian officials - experts said that obstacles remain on Pristina’s path to joining the UN’s cultural body.