Anti-establishment party Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) is set to win Kosovo's parliamentary election with 46.8% of the votes, preliminary results based on a partial count on Sunday showed, Reuters reported.

Ramush Haradinaj, the leader of the Alliance for Kosovo (ABK) and a candidate for Kosovo's president, accused the European Union on Monday with neglecting Pristina and pushing it to unite with neighbouring Albania, Serbia’s Beta/N1 reported.

Kosovo’s acting president Vjosa Osmani set 14 February as the date for an early parliamentary election, following a decision by the country's top court to annul the June parliamentary vote. "The Election Commission is instructed to take all necessary actions to hold the elections," Osmani said in a written statement.

Kosovo was preparing to call new elections Tuesday after the constitutional court ruled the election of Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti in June was unconstitutional.

Hashiм Thaci, who resigned as president of Kosovo last week, on Monday declared that he was not guilty during his first hearing in a war crimes trial at a special court in The Hague, news wires reported.

Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci, a guerrilla leader during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia in the 1990s, resigned on Thursday in order to face charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity at a special court based in The Hague, news wires reported.

The Kosovo Specialist Chamber, a war crimes court based in The Hague, said on Thursday that a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander, Salih Mustafa, had been arrested by prosecutors in Kosovo and is being transported to the Netherlands. The court said in a statement it had confirmed an indictment and arrest warrant against Mustafa, though it did not detail what charges he may face.

The EU voiced "serious concern and regret" over Serbia's pledge to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, news wires reported. Muslim-majority Kosovo also agreed to normalize its ties with Israel, including establishing diplomatic relations. Kosovo's president, Hashim Thaci said that his country "will keep a promise to place its diplomatic mission in Jerusalem."

EU-mediated negotiations on normalising relations between Serbia and its former province of Kosovo could lead to a deal within months, the EU's envoy on the issue said. But according to Miroslav Lajcak, it would be a mistake to forecast a date as there were still ”very complicated issues to address”.

War crimes prosecutors in The Hague have called for questioning the veteran head of North Macedonia’s Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) party, Ali Ahmeti, who was a guerrilla fighter during the conflicts in both Kosovo and North Macedonia, news wires reported. He confirmed that he has accepted the request “without any hesitation”.