The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee was told on Thursday that neither Kosovo nor Serbia was making much effort to implement the EU-brokered deal on normalisation of relations.
The new mayor of North Mitrovica, from Kosovo's ruling Vetevendosje party, assumed office on Friday in a tense atmosphere following a Kosovo Serb boycott of the April local elections.
Republika Srpska is an unusual political entity that grew out of the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. It's independent in some ways but also part of the larger country that is Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Switzerland has called on Serbia and Kosovo to avoid actions and rhetoric that would further worsen the situation in the Serbian-populated northern Kosovo, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday