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Payment Automation Hacks: Best Practices to Streamline & Scale Your AP Processes
CFO Dive
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Your primer on Kosovo’s parliamentary election
Atlantic Council
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February 6, 2025
After a four-year mandate in Pristina, Prime Minister Albin Kurti faces a test at the polls as Kosovars vote for a new parliament on February 9. With prominent opposition candidates in the running, the election will be a test of Kurti’s political...
Trump’s Aid Freeze Halts Help for Kosovo War Trauma Victims
Balkan Insight
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February 7, 2025
One year after Feride Rushiti finished her gastroenterology studies at Tirana university in Albania, she witnessed the “collective trauma” suffered by her Albanian compatriots fleeing the war in Kosovo. In March 1998, the recently graduated...
‘Just Surviving’: Kosovo Serbs Struggle with Shutdown of Serbian-Run Institutions
Balkan Insight
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February 3, 2025
Kosovo’s crackdown on Serbian-run institutions is part of a years-long struggle over control of Serb-populated parts of Kosovo since it broke away from Serbia in 1999 at the end of a war in which NATO intervened with air strikes to halt the...
Will The Election Bring A New Dawn To Kosovo
Pressenza
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February 5, 2025
In any fair and free national election in Kosovo, most electorates hope that a new chapter will dawn and bring a better prospect for growth, prosperity, and security. Given the current political atmosphere in Kosovo, the public seems conflicted; a...
Water tanks replace springs as drought endangers cows and horses
The Gleaner
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July 21, 2025
SUVA PLANINA (AP): A severe drought this summer has left over 1,000 cows and horses without water on a mountain in southeast Serbia, forcing the authorities to bring up emergency supplies. The early drought that started in May has affected people,...
Nigel Farage warns repeat offenders will spend lives in jail in plan to slash crime
Daily Express
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July 21, 2025
Nigel Farage plans a three strikes and you’re out policy for repeat offenders as part of a radical plan to cut crime in half and make Reform UK “the toughest party on law and order and on crime that this country has ever seen”. He warned: “More...
Asllani: Sweden don't fear England in quarterfinal
ESPN India
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July 17, 2025
Sweden captain Kosovare Asllani said her team do not fear England but instead have a healthy respect for the European champions ahead of their Euro 2025 quarterfinal showdown on Thursday. After England's 6-1 thrashing of Wales to end the group...
Kosovo Health Trade Unions held a protest, they demand salary increase
Euronews Albania
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November 14, 2024
The Federation of Health Trade Unions in Kosovo held a protest on Thursday, blocking the entrance to the Ministry of Health. The unionists, with placards in their hands, presented their demands for salary increases, which they consider...
Why the EU should use Kosovo’s election to advance its goals in the Western Balkans
European Council on Foreign Relations
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February 6, 2025
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine prompted the European Union to revive its long-stalled push for enlargement in the Western Balkans. Three years later, and the initial enthusiasm to bring all six of the region’s countries into the European...
USAID, targeted for closure, has big global impact, from fighting disease to protecting Amazon rainforest
The Daily Record - Maryland
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February 6, 2025
The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from congressional Democrats and raised questions and concern about the influence billionaire ally Elon Musk wields over the...
EUR 160M Spent for Pharmaceutical Products
Albanian Daily News
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Albanian citizens’ spending for purchasing medicines are increasing in the recent years because the medical needs of an aging population are increasing and, on the other hand, public funds for drug reimbursement have remained unchanged. According...
Kosovo parliament backs €3.6 billion budget for 2025 amid opposition criticism
Gazeta Tema
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November 12, 2024
Nov 12, 2024 - Kosovo’s parliament approved a 3.6 billion euro draft budget for 2025 on Monday after a charged debate, with Prime Minister Albin Kurti hailing it as a path to economic growth and job creation, while opposition leaders criticised it...
Debate on NATO Intervention in Kosovo, Ambassador Denion Meidani: History Will Not Be Rewritten!
Albanian Daily News
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During an interview, the well-known journalists Piers Morgan and Tucker Carlson were engaged in a heated debate over NATO’s role in the 1999 intervention in Yugoslavia. “NATO is a defensive organization and has never acted aggressively…”, Morgan...
Iredell Health System introduces Mammo Mondays for easier access to mammograms
North Iredell News - North Carolina
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January 31, 2025
Iredell Health System is making mammograms more accessible with its new initiative, Mammo Mondays, at Iredell Imaging in Mooresville. This program offers same-day and walk-in appointments every Monday, simplifying the process for women who find it...
Persistent offenders face life sentences under Farage crackdown
The Times
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Every shoplifter would be prosecuted and stop and search powers used to “saturation point” under Nigel Farage’s pledge to make Reform UK the “toughest party on law and order this country has ever seen”. He said that a Reform government would crack...
Stalled ‘Peace Highway’ Reflects State of Serbia-Kosovo Relations
Balkan Insight
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January 30, 2025
The hour was early and the rain heavy when Adnan Bekteshi’s car slipped off the road between the northeastern Kosovo town of Podujeva/Podujevo to Pristina, flipped over and slid partially into a river. The next thing Bekteshi saw was an elderly...
Soccer-Sweden do not fear facing holders England in Euro quarter-finals, says Asllani
The Malaysian Star
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July 16, 2025
ZURICH (Reuters) -Sweden captain Kosovare Asllani said her team do not fear England but instead have a healthy respect for the European champions ahead of their Euro 2025 quarter-final showdown on Thursday. After England's 6-1 thrashing of Wales...
Sweden do not fear facing holders England in Euro quarter-finals, says Asllani
Channel News Asia
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July 16, 2025
ZURICH :Sweden captain Kosovare Asllani said her team do not fear England but instead have a healthy respect for the European champions ahead of their Euro 2025 quarter-final showdown on Thursday. After England's 6-1 thrashing of Wales to end the...
BIRN Fact-Check: Is Kosovo Leaving Poverty Behind, as PM Claims?
Balkan Insight
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January 27, 2025
Facing a general election on February 9, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti made the claim this month that his young country has taken “enormous steps out of poverty”. Gross Domestic Product, GDP, “has increased by 50 per cent compared to the first...