Clashes in Kosovo assembly as opposition minister throws water on PM

A brawl erupted in the Kosovo parliament on Thursday after an opposition lawmaker threw water on prime minister Albin Kurti while he was speaking about government measures to defuse tensions with ethnic Serbs in the country’s north. Lawmaker Mergim Lushtaku from the Democratic Party of Kosovo approached Kurti while he was speaking and threw water at him, triggering the brawl. Earlier, Kurti’s deputy Besnik Beslimi had torn up a drawing mocking Kurti that the opposition had placed on the prime minister’s lectern