NATO peacekeepers are busy blocking "alternative" border crossings into Serbia set up by Kosovar Serbs as they continue to protest the presence of Kosovo police and customs officials on the border.

The public has reacted negatively to reports that the Defense Ministry is sending call-up notices in an effort to beef up the military reserves. With tensions with neighboring Kosovo running high and memories of the wars of the 1990s still fresh, many Serbs are speaking out on the Internet against what they see as a new "mobilization."

The revelation that a Serb convicted of plotting the 2003 assassination of pro-Western Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic has named several high-ranking politicians as having knowledge of plans for the killing has caused a media storm.

Local Serbs are maintaining blockades of two bridges in the city of Mitrovica, in the north of Kosovo.

Authorities in Kosovo began dispatching police and customs officers to two contested border crossings with Serbia in the predominantly Serb north of the country, amid concerns the move would provoke ethnic violence.

The UN Security Council meets in emergency session to discuss growing tensions in Kosovo but fails to find agreement to help avert conflict.

Serbs have blocked the main bridge connecting the southern (Albanian) and northern (Serb) parts of Kosovo one day before the deployment of Kosovar police and customs officials at two border crossings with Serbia

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the military alliance will not allow the Balkan region to slip back into violence amid simmering tensions between Kosovo and Serbia over a border dispute.

Kosovo says it will reopen two border outposts in its Serb-dominated north this week in a move that could reignite tensions that led to deadly clashes in July.

Tensions are rising in the north of Kosovo as Pristina's mainly ethnic Albanian rulers try to assert control over a slice of the north mainly populated by ethnic Serbs.

Serbian President Boris Tadic has warned that any attempts by Kosovo to deploy police and customs officials at border outposts in its Serb-populated north could reignite tensions that led to violence and the death of a police officer in July.

The UN war crimes tribunal has found the former chief of the Yugoslav army, Momcilo Perisic, guilty of murder, persecution, and attacks on civilians in Bosnia and Croatia during the Balkans wars in the 1990s, and sentenced him to 27 years in prison.

President Boris Tadic said Serbia intends to boost political and economic ties with member states of the Non-Aligned Movement, whose 50th anniversary was marked on September 5.

A small town in southern Serbia wants to erect a monument to former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who died while being tried for war crimes in The Hague in 2006.

European Union foreign ministers discussed ties with association-seeking Ukraine and with Belarus as they met for the second day of an informal meeting in northern Poland.

Around 1,000 people have rallied in Kosovo's capital of Pristina in a protest demanding space for a new mosque.

A Kosovo Albanian man has confessed to shooting dead two U.S. airmen and wounding two others at Frankfurt airport in March.

A senior UN official has warned in a report that tensions in Kosovo may escalate.

The European Union's Rule of Law (EULEX) mission in Kosovo has appointed a U.S. prosecutor to investigate allegations linking Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and other senior figures in Kosovo's leadership to organ trafficking.