Kosovo rushes war crimes court change to avoid snap poll

Kosovo parliament voted to curb the powers of its special war crimes court in a last-minute session that narrowly avoided another governmental collapse in the early hours of Wednesday. The amendment, which was tightly negotiated ahead of a looming deadline to elect the country's president at midnight, came after the Kosovo Specialist Chambers found four senior guerrilla figures guilty of war crimes last month. The conviction of the men, which included former president Hashim Thaci, sparked outra