The Kosovo Appellant Court rejected defence appeal against the detention of those arrested on May 28 and extended the custody for 31 men suspected of corruption, smuggling and abuse of office, the Beta news agency reported on Thursday.
The ruling said the detention had to be extended due to the possibilities of suspects tampering with evidence, influencing the witnesses or fleeing.
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, led by Stephanie Eble, visited Pristina during June 12-18, to discuss recent economic developments and Kosovo’s economic outlook. At the conclusion of the visit, Ms. Eble made the following statement:
Kosov Police banned the Serbs to celebrate the Holy Trinity in the village of Petric near Klina, reported Serbian media based in Kosovo.
KIM radio reported that Kosovo police did not allow lithium for the Serbs who gathered in the village Petric.
Resident of the village, said that about 30 Serbs gathered for the lithium to celebrate the holiday of the village, where they used to live once.
The perpetrators and those who ordered the murder of Kosovo Serb opposition leader Oliver Ivanovic have not been found 17 months after Ivanovic’s death.
Even though the paving of a road in the Decani gorge –which leads to the mountains of this municipality and the border with Montenegro and partly passes through a special protected zone – was stopped in May last year, the Decani municipal authorities continued with the road construction.
The panel ''Novo Brdo – between historical truth and political lies'' was held at the Cultural and Educational Center ''Bozidar Mitrovic Sandor '' in Silovo on Friday evening.
Speaking about the attempt to turn the cathedral of the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas into a Catholic church, history professor Dr. Bozidar Zarkovic underlined that it is ''fake'' and that there are ''no scientific basis and historical evidence'' to support such claims.
Kosovo border police officers opened fire at a van with Serbian licence plates after the driver refused to stop, a Kosovo police spokesman told the media, reports regional broadcaster N1, quoting Beta news agency.
Private pharmacies in the north of Kosovo are closed today. KoSSev visited pharmacies on the main street in North Mitrovica – all of which are closed today. The doors of some pharmacies have a note stating that they did not open due to „a collective holiday”.
The Belgrade based Danas daily awarded two journalists for being professional in “all but easy time for media,” the newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The editor of the KoSSev website from North Kosovo’s Mitrovica town Tatjana Lazarevic and an editor of the BIRN website and a journalist with the Vreme weekly Slobodan Georgijev will receive “Stanislav Stasa Marinkovic” award on June 9, upon the occasion of the Danas’ anniversary.
Pristina used a sledgehammer to crack a nut, Serbs who took part in the Kosovo elections with Kosovo ID cards a few days earlier wanted to show that it was Serbia.
Op-Ed by Slobodan Georgiev
Why did Pristina decide to help strengthen Aleksandar Vucic’s announcement that retaliation against Serbs is being prepared on the same day that the Serbian Assembly discussed the situation in Kosovo at Vucic’s initiative?