Last week the country celebrated 14 years of independence; despite the support of the US, it is still not part of the EU not of the UN, and it suffers a major rift with Serbia, which doesn't recognize it as a country nor admits its atrocities in war

Former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla Pjeter Shala appealed against the ICC Hague Trial verdict jailing him for 18 years for war crimes; the prosecution and victims’ representative insisted the sentencing was fair

An awaited new parliament still hasn't been inaugurated since the elections held on 9 February; the winning party attempted to initiate a secret vote for the parliamentary speaker’s role but the proposal only got 54 votes out of 120 and did not pass

The Pristina Basic Court has issued an arrest warrant for Milan Radoicic and 19 others, suspected of war crimes during the Kosovo war in May 1999, in Gjakova/Djakovica; the suspects don't have addresses in Kosovo and aren't accessible to authorities

Kosovo signed a defence agreement with Croatia and Albania, calling for joint responses to common security challenges; the pact has drawn a furious response from Serbia, which called it a threatening move