Kosovo Barricades Cleared But Situation Still Fragile, EU Says

NATO peacekeepers helped remove road blocks in Kosovo that ethnic Serbs had erected in their weeks-long standoff with the largely ethnic-Albanian authorities.

With the European Union seeking to jumpstart dialog between the Balkan foes, NATO’s KFOR force used heavy machinery to remove two burnt-out trucks from a key road in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica on Tuesday, clearing the last of more than a dozen barricades built by protesting Serbs last month, the Pristina-based Koha news service reported.