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.

A French Gendarme was shot and wounded early today during clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo’s ethnically divided city of Mitrovica as European Union police fired tear gas to disperse the violent crowd, a European Union 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.