Kosovo named a new government Wednesday after months of political turmoil in the former Serbian province, casting out left-wing leader Albin Kurti and raising tensions with his supporters. The new government was cobbled together by Kurti's former coalition partner, the centre-right LDK, who quit his alliance in March, plunging Kosovo into a leadership crisis in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

Pristina re-launched on Sunday a trade war with Belgrade by announcing a ban on all imports from Serbia that are not stamped “for the Republic of Kosovo”, AFP reported. The 100-percent tariff on Serbian imports, imposed in 2018 to protest Belgrade’s campaign to undermine global recognition of the former Serbian province, was only abolished on 1 April. The measure lasted mere two months.

Kosovo's top court on Thursday rejected outgoing PM Albin Kurti's call for snap polls after his coalition collapsed, and backed a presidential decree asking his rivals to form a new government, news wires reported.

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci announced on Tuesday he would not take part in talks on normalising ties with Serbia led by the EU special mediator Miroslav Lajcak, calling instead for an increased US role in the dialogue, news wires reported.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NATO-led KFOR continues to operate in Kosovo and also provides assistance to local institutions, the mission said. In the past days, KFOR has donated personal protection equipment worth €70,000 to the hospitals of Pristina and Gracanica.

The European Council announced on 3 April the appointment of former Slovakia’s Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak as EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues. Lajcak assumes office with an initial 12-month term.

Kosovo has lifted 100% tariff on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, interim PM Albin Kurti said in a TV interview on Wednesday.

Kosovo lawmakers dismissed the government of Prime Minister Albin Kurti in a no-confidence vote on Wednesday, triggering a political crisis as the Balkan country is trying to stop the spread of the coronavirus, news wires reported.

A no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Albin Kurti's government was called in Kosovo on Wednesday, as bickering among the country's three top leaders continues in spite of the coronavirus crisis. The motion was launched by Kurti's junior coalition partners, Isa Mustafa's center-left Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK).

Opposition parties on Sunday snap election in Kosovo took the lead over former guerrillas who have dominated politics for the past decade, news wires reported. The leftist-nationalist Vetevendosje (Self-determination party) of Albin Kurti was in first place with 26% of the vote, followed by the centre-right LDK who had 25.2 % after more than three quarters of the ballots were counted, the electoral commission said. The victory of the two opposition parties was a heavy rebuke to parties led by former guerrillas who battled Serbia in the 1990s, paving the way for Kosovo's independence.