FLASH
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The attack on the Kosovo Police in the north of the country in the early hours of Sunday morning, which left one police officer dead and one injured, has echoed in the international media.
According to the Kosovar authorities, the incident took place in the village of Banjské in Leposaviq.
Heavily armed and unidentified persons had blocked the Mitrovica-Leposaviq road with two trucks.
The police patrol went there, but at this moment the armed persons opened fire on the police car. The bullets took the life of policeman Afrim Bunjaku with the rank of sergeant, while an employee of the border police of Kosovo was injured.
Kosovo media reports that the attackers are located in a monastery in Banjska.
The talks mediated by the EU between Kosovo and Serbia have become so one-sided that they have reached a dead end, writes the prestigious The Guardian, quoting the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti.
"More than a decade of European-led mediation efforts, most recently in Moldova and Brussels, have failed to normalize relations between the two countries, and Belgrade still refuses to recognize Kosovo's independence, declared in 2008 under a plan sponsored from the UN.
On Sunday, tensions rose again after a policeman was killed and another wounded in northern Kosovo, in the first violence in the region in months.
The Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, said in an interview for the Guardian given before this weekend's violence that the ongoing instability had made the region "a playground for the geopolitical games of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China," writes the British media.
While the BBC writes that Kurti has accused Serbia of supporting what he called a "terrorist attack".
"Tensions have risen in Kosovo, following violent clashes following disputed local elections in May," the BBC quotes.
On the other hand, the French newspaper Le Monde emphasizes that this is a repeated scenario in the north of Kosovo.
"Northern Kosovo is the scene of repeated unrest, and tension there suddenly rose in May when Kosovo authorities decided to appoint Albanian mayors in four Serb-majority municipalities. More than 30 soldiers from KFOR, the NATO-led force in Kosovo, were injured at the end of May in clashes with Serbian demonstrators," Le Monde quotes.
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