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.

THE leaders of Bosnia’s three major ethnic groups have reached an accord designed to unify the Balkan country by remaking the government’s constitution a decade after a bloody civil war.

A British army battalion has been send to Kosovo after the UN mission in the Serb province raised its security threat level to Stage Black.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny is due to visit Irish soldiers on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo in the next few days.