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Serbia’s Vucic says will ask NATO permission to deploy troops in Kosovo as tensions flare

Kosovo Serbs block traffic in the northern part of the ethnically divided town of Mitkovica, Kosovo on December 11, 2022. © Florion Goga, Reuters

Kosovo Serbs and local police exchanged gunfire on Saturday after a flareup of tensions in the volatile northern part of Kosovo. Elections that were due to take place next Sunday have been moved to April, and Serbia's president said he would ask NATO's peacekeeping mission to allow him to deploy Serbian troops and police in the area.

Serbs from Kosovo's north earlier on Saturday blocked main roads in the region to protest against the arrest of a former member of the Kosovo police who quit his post last month along with other ethnic Serbs.

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