Gjakova/Djakovica

Kosovo's Islamic Community Council has asked the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, to remove the ban of wearing religious symbols in high schools after a photo of a sign banning the burqa at the entrance of a high school in Gjakova/Djakovica drew criticism.

It will be a long time before survivors of wartime rape in Kosovo find lasting closure or healing, Mirlinda Sada says.

The soft rays of the morning sun fall upon her pale hands as they rest on the stack of papers on the table. She does not raise her eyes as she looks down at the documents in front of her.

Several years later, he would become the youngest witness to testify at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, giving evidence about what his forces did that day in Gjakova/Djakovica.

Kapllani was deeply affected by his meeting with the boy in the Tirana hospital.

Serbs who visit a church in the western Kosovo town of Gjakova/Djakovica for Orthodox Christmas each year have cancelled their trip after local Kosovo Albanians said they would stage a protest.

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj is in hot water after it was revealed that he spent his recent winter in the upscale ski resort of St Moritz in Switzerland - the haunt of royalty and movie stars.

Serb councillors in Klina said the street should not be named after activist Natasa Kandic, the founder of the Humanitarian Law Centre NGO, which has investigated war crimes by Belgrade's forces during the late 1990s Kosovo conflict.

“With the evidence collected, we are on the right track and will be able to identify the person who committed this criminal act,” Shpresa Bakija, the chief prosecutor in the town of Gjakova/Djakovica, told Balkan Insight.

The former manager at the Post and Telecommunications of Kosovo and prospective MP was gunned down in the early hours of June 15.

The digital display in central Pristina, an initiative launched by Kosovo’s government commission on missing persons, is an inadequate substitute for the genuine memorial that was originally promised, relatives who have joined the boycott told BIRN.