Protesters Release Tear Gas, Sling Gas Bombs as Kosovo Parliament Taps President

Opposition lawmakers released tear gas in Kosovo's parliament and protesters outside threw petrol bombs in an unsuccessful attempt to stop Hashim Thaci, who they say gave too much power to ethnic Serbs, from being elected president. Twenty-one officers were injured in the streets of Pristina during Friday's session when police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters. Thaci, 47, helped to clinch an EU-brokered agreement in 2015 that gives a small Serb minority...

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