Kosovo

The U.S. is welcoming tens of thousands of Afghans airlifted out of Kabul but has disclosed little publicly about a small group who remain overseas

A U.S. official says the United States plans to send Afghan evacuees who require more screening to a site in Kosovo

At least two Afghans who were evacuated to the U.S. will be sent to Kosovo for more review, but that does not mean they necessarily pose a terror threat.

Each of the Olympians gathering in Japan this summer for the Tokyo Games will add to the long history of the Olympics, which have been played every four years since 1896 (except 1916 due to World War I, 1940 and 1944 due to World War II and 2020 due to COVID-19). Tokyo has hosted the Olympics once before in 1964….

Police chiefs from around the world gathered in Dubai on Sunday for Interpol’s general assembly to select a new president after the agency’s former leader was detained in China. Meng Hongwei— who was China’s vice minister of public security while also leading Interpol — went missing while on a trip to China in September. It later emerged that the long-time...

The opposition Self-Determination party in Kosovo used tear gas just before a vote was to be held on a border demarcation deal with Montenegro.

Millions of Europeans who arrived late to work or school Wednesday had a good excuse — an unprecedented lag in the continent’s electricity grid that’s slowing down some clocks. The problem is caused by a political dispute between Serbia and Kosovo that’s sapping a small amount of energy from the local grid, causing a domino effect across the 25-nation network...

Besnik Sokoli has gone from refugee from war-torn Kosovo to Brooklyn building super to an alternate skier in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

A Brooklyn building superintendent is going to the Olympics to ski years after escaping Kosovo. John Chandler reports.

Clean-cut Albert Berisha doesn’t look like a man who moved to Syria to fight alongside ISIS, whose militants he calls murderous psychopaths, NBC News reported. But the “jihadi who likes the United States,” as he says, embodies a crucial question facing security officials in the West: Can a jihadi who fought in Iraq or Syria be peacefully reintegrated into society?...

Sen. Mark Kirk released a campaign ad Monday that calls Rep. Tammy Duckworth’s work at the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs “shameful.” This comes only a few weeks after Duckworth released an ad calling Kirk’s military embellishments “disgraceful.”

Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, honoring the tiny nun who cared for the world’s most destitute and holding her up as a model for a Catholic Church that goes to the peripheries to find poor, wounded souls. Applause erupted in St. Peter’s Square even before Francis finished pronouncing the rite of canonization at the start of...

Germany says nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum seekers in the country last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria.
The Interior Ministry said Wednesday that 1,091,894 people in total were registered between January and December. Syrians were by far the biggest single group, accounting for 428,468 people. They were followed by Afghans, 154,046 of whom were registered, and 121,662 Iraqis.