NATO-led troops and police clashed with protesters in Northern Kosovo Monday amid an ongoing standoff between ethnic Albanian authorities and local ethnic Serbs who ignored warnings not to seize municipality buildings. The violence comes after Kosovo’s police raided Serb-dominated areas in the
The US has reportedly removed Iranian oil from a tanker at sea as part of a sanctions enforcement operation. Days later Iran is said to have seized a different tanker containing oil in retaliation, according to reports. With oil markets remaining inconsistent,
Protests in France escalated over the weekend with officers firing more than 4,000 nonlethal dispersion grenades at people who were voicing their concerns over French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. More than a million people have taken to the streets in recent
However, the administration is still dealing with the ongoing fallout after downing the Chinese balloon, which Beijing insists was just an errant civilian airship. According to the Pentagon, the suspected surveillance device drifted into US airspace north of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on
Serbian forces built more roadblocks in northern Kosovo today, defying international demands to remove barriers placed there which led to fears that tensions could escalate into an armed conflict. The new barriers, formed of heavily loaded trucks, appeared overnight in Mitrovica, a
As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was preparing to address Congress, Russia warned that increasing military aid to the beleaguered country would only aggravate the 10-month conflict. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters at an earlier press briefing in Moscow that the expansion