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Serbia on Monday placed its security troops on the border with Kosovo on "the full state of combat readiness", ignoring NATO's calls for calming down of tensions between the two wartime Balkan foes. Serbia's Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said he "ordered the full combat readiness" of police and other security units and that they be placed under the command of the army chief of staff according to "their operational plan. He said in a statement that he acted on the orders of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic so that "all measures be taken to protect the Serbian people in Kosovo". It was not immediately clear what this order meant on the ground as Serbian troops have been on alert for a while on the border with Kosovo. Officials claim alleged harassment of Kosovo Serbs by ethnic Albanians who are a majority in the breakaway province that declared its independence in 2008. Earlier Monday, NATO-led peacekeepers said they were investigating a shooting incident in a tense northern ..

Tensions were high in northern Kosovo on Sunday, with Serbs blocking roads as shots and explosions rang out overnight, Kosovo police and media reported Sunday. No injuries were reported. The blocking of the roads with heavy vehicles and trucks happened a day after the Serbian president said he would ask the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo to permit the deployment of 1,000 Serb troops in the Serb-populated north of Kosovo, claiming they are being harassed there. The road blocks, which Serbs say were erected to protest recent arrest of a former Kosovo Serb police officer, came despite the postponement of the Dec. 18 municipal election the Kosovo Serbs were opposed to. Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic said Sunday that his message to the Serbs in Kosovo is that there is no surrender and there will be no surrender. He claimed the Serbs had been forced to erect the road barricades to protect themselves from Kosovo security forces. The European Union rule of law mission, known as

Dispute over decision by Kosovo govt to enforce use of Kosovo-issued licence plates for Serbs in northern municipalities rather than allowing them to use plates issued by Serbian govt has flared up.

The authorities of self-proclaimed Kosovo announced after US Ambassador Jeffrey Hovenier's appeal that they were postponing the entry restrictions for Serbs caused alarming tensions in the region.

Lawmakers in Kosovo elected and swore in a new president Sunday for a five-year term, the Balkan nation's second female leader

Trump announced normalisation of economic ties between Serbia and Kosovo, saying that the two countries were able to reach a "real breakthrough" on economic cooperation across a broad range of issues

It was done based on an arrest warrant issued by Serbia

Blast comes amid tensions over a border demarcation deal that the government has reached with Montenegro