Lawmakers elected Kosovo's most popular politician Vjosa Osmani as president on Sunday, overcoming an opposition boycott that had kept parliament short of a quorum one day earlier, AFP reported. The 38-year-old law professor, a standard bearer of a generation determined to fight corruption, received 71 votes from the 82 deputies present. "I will work for the strengthening of the state, the rule of law," Osmani told lawmakers.

Kosovo's parliament backs Albin Kurti as prime minister on Monday, more than a month after the small Balkan country held a snap election, Reuters reported.

Kosovo on Sunday opened its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, becoming the third country to locate its embassy in the disputed city, Reuters reported. The Balkan country with a Muslim-majority population had promised to set up its embassy in Jerusalem following the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two nations through US-led talks.

Kosovo’s foreign minister on Tuesday resigned following allegations she had rigged the vote to win a seat in the new parliament, news wires reported.

The Kosovo’s Election Commission released on Thursday the final results from the early general election, held on 14 February. According to them a left-wing party has garnered the most parliamentary seats, but has fallen short of an absolute majority that would have enabled it to form a government on its own, AP reported.

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.