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Ex-officials arrested for organ trafficking in Kosovo

A former Kosovo health minister and another Pristina official are among eight suspects in a new EU probe into a human organ trafficking case, a local daily reported Tuesday. Last Tuesday, a day after a European Union-led court in Kosovo convicted five doctors of harvesting and selling kidneys at a…

Former health official admits to illegal organ harvesting from living donors

A former top Kosovo health ministry official on trial for organ trafficking on Friday admitted that illegal kidney transplants were carried out at a Pristina clinic, but denied covering them up. Ilir Rrecaj told an EU-led panel of judges that the “transplants happened, but there was no licence for (them)”…

Soldier-turned-singer: US ordered me to attack Russian troops

‘I’m not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War 3,’ top UK soldier reportedly said A British pop singer who served during the war in Kosovo says he refused an order from US Gen. Wesley Clark to attack 200 Russian troops, a move he says could…