Brawl erupts in Kosovo parliament after water thrown at PM

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A brawl erupted in the Kosovo parliament after an opposition lawmaker threw water on the prime minister, Albin Kurti, while he was speaking about government measures to defuse tensions with ethnic Serbs in the country’s north. Kosovo opposition parties have criticised Kurti’s policies in the north, which have strained relations with key western allies. The US and the European Union have put pressure on Kurti to help calm the situation. Violence broke out in May when police-backed ethnic Albanian mayors took office after an election that the ethnic Serb majority in the area had widely boycotted. Dozens of people were...