Kosovar special police units launched an operation overnight to take control of two disputed border crossings in Kosovo’s northern Serb-run border region, the Kosovar interior minister said.

The EU mission in Kosovo has launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci once led a ring trafficking in human organs, an official said.

KOSOVO police yesterday arrested the central bank governor on suspicion of corruption in an embarrassment for the government just a day after the World Court backed Kosovo’s independence.

The United Nations Security Council gave the go-ahead today for the deployment of a European Union mission throughout Kosovo under the international organisation’s umbrella.

YESTERDAY, Pristina awoke to a city-wide hangover after its delirious denizens marked independence with an all-night city-wide party.