Kosovo

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Rising ethnic tensions in Kosovo

Wagner Group

The trigger to all this might have been a new policy on license plates in Kosovo, but Ramadan Ilazi, head of research at the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies, says there’s much deeper roots to these tensions.

A Kosovo police officer crosses the bridge that connects north and south Mitrovica. The Ibar River serves as a natural divider in Mitrovica, where Serbs live on the northern side of the river and Albanians on the southern side.

There is one place where Serbs and Albanians coexist in Kosovo — in the country’s version of Costco

Culture
Roma community boys sit on the wall around Riza Lushta stadium as they watch the Kosovo's superleague soccer match between KF Trepca '89 and KF Istogu in Mitrovica, Kosovo, April 3, 2016.

Kosovo’s Roma are still struggling with lead-poisoning suffered in UN camps

Conflict
The team behind "Kosovo if Trump Wins" (from left) Fitim Krasniqi, Argjend Haxhiu and Kushtrim Krasniqi. All three are devout Muslims. They are also pro-American like most people in Kosovo.

These Kosovo website creators treated Trump as a joke. Then he won.

Conflict
Air Canada travelers wait at the check-in area in Montreal.

Why I’m actually moving to Canada

Culture
Portrait of man, outdoors

Muslim refugees of another era could put Missouri in play for Clinton

Election 2016

If Missouri’s race is as close as recent polls suggest, some observers think it could be St. Louis’ “Bosnian vote” that gives the state’s 10 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton.

Women walking in Pristina, Kosovo.

‘I’ve been grabbed, followed, yelled at, sworn at’

Conflict

Since moving back to Kosovo, my birthplace, from Canada four years ago, I’ve been grabbed, followed, yelled at, sworn at, and heard all sorts of disgusting commentary about my legs, my body, my genitals, you name it, all while simply walking down the street. New research shows what Kosovar women have always known: street harassment affects women across Kosovo, regardless of geographical location, ethnicity, sexual orientation and able-bodiedness.

Rita Parashumti walks around Pristina similar to the “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman” for Prishtina’s Take Back the Night.

Young women in Kosovo are writing code to fight harassment

Technology

Developers of a new app, Walk Freely, hope it will help solve Kosovo’s sexual harassment problem.

Lousiana native Sam Craft taks to Wikitongues about his identity as a young Louisiana French speaker.

This nonprofit wants to build a tool to share and document all the world’s languages

Culture

A New York-based nonprofit has launched a Kickstarter campaign to build open source software that will make it easier to create video dictionaries on the fly — a tool they hope will facilitate the teaching and preservation of endangered languages.

The World

Facebook annexed Kosovo — and that’s a good thing

Technology

Getting your country recognized by the United Nations is an important step for global recognition. But it may be a bigger deal when Facebook acknowledges statehood. That’s just what happened for Kosovo. Now when you tag your friends in a photo at a posh bar in Pristina, you can list Kosovo as the location.