The other K-pop: Dua Lipa, Rita Ora and the Kosovan chart takeover
After wartime trauma, Europe’s youngest country has developed an outsize musical clout that packed this year’s Sunny Hill festival in Pristina. What fuels its pop success?
June 2024
Belgrade authorities cancel ethnic bridge-building arts festival after nationalist protests
Youth groups from Serbia and Kosovo who organise the Mirëdita Dobar Dan cultural event accuse Serbia’s interior ministry of failing to protect them from intimidation
April 2024
Jericho Ridge review – shades of Rio Bravo in tense siege thriller with old-timey charm
Nikki Amuka-Bird gives a powerful performance as a gritty deputy defending her remote sheriff’s office from armed invaders
March 2024
‘This is still taboo’: queer teens and their families embrace gay comedy in Serbia
Audiences are finding sharp resonance and emotional comfort in Patrik Lazić’s moving and funny play Our Son, about topics still sensitive in the Balkans
February 2024
Kosovo accused of raising ethnic tensions by banning use of Serbian dinar
‘They hit me so hard I lost consciousness’: Serbian opposition politician tells of secret service ordeal
January 2024
Serbian opposition leader says secret service tortured and threatened him
Nikola Sandulović, who apologised for crimes against ethnic Albanians, speaks for first time after release from detention
December 2023
National archives: Tony Blair was advised to work with militants in Kosovo
Former prime minister had concerns about being seen to be too close to the Kosovo Liberation Army
November 2023
David Cameron to visit Brussels in official role for first time since Brexit
One diplomat likens ex-PM’s trip to EU headquarters for Nato talks to a ‘divorcee returning to the family home’
Kosovo zoo rescue lion and bears come out to play in winter snow
Sanctuary sets up heaters to take chill off rescue animals that have lost habit of entering full hibernation
Former Yugoslavia countries must face past horrors or risk return to conflict, Council of Europe official says
Germany proposes giving EU candidate countries observer status at summits
Serbia’s president dissolves parliament and calls early election
October 2023
Vain generals, mix-ups and Elvis: Kosovan play turns peace talks into farce
Martti Ahtisaari obituary
Kosovo and Serbia leaders to meet for talks after flurry of diplomacy
Europe live
Pressure mounts for Turkey and Hungary to ratify Swedish Nato bid – as it happened
‘A climate of violence’: Serbian football ultras in spotlight after Kosovo monastery siege
Kosovo rules out talks with Serbia until it faces sanctions over deadly gun battle
Kosovo Serb politician arrested over role in armed ambush of police