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Week in Review: Brink and Brinkmanship
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BIRN Fact-Check: What Will the Serbia-Kosovo Energy Deal Achieve?
Secondly, the Kosovo authorities will have access to the Valac/Vallaq substation, an important part of the country's power grid that is located in a Serb-majority municipality, and other energy infrastructure that Pristina was not able to access previously.
Serbs to pay bills to Serbian company
Kosovo Digs Deeper as Search for Wartime Missing Intensifies
Kosovo's Institute of Forensic Medicine began a new exhumation of a suspected war grave this week in the mountain village of Koshare/Kosare in the west of the country as the authorities stepped up efforts to find around the remaining missing persons from the 1998-99 war.
Kosovo’s Trepca Giant Struggles to Pay off Debts to Miners
Kosovo's mining giant Trepca owes hundreds of thousands of euros to its miners in terms of union fees, pension funds and health insurance, BIRN has found out.
Trepca enterprise deducts 1 per cent of each miner's salary as a union membership fee, but has never transferred this money to the unions, creating a large debt.
Concern over ‘Uncontrolled’ Security Cameras in Serb- Dominated North Kosovo
There are two close to the bus station in North Mitrovica, several in Zvecan and others in a village of Zubin Potok.
But while, by law, security cameras directed at public streets should be the sole responsibility of Kosovo's police force, dozens observed by BIRN in three Serb-majority municipalities in the country's north are not apparently under anyone's control.
Week in Review: The Game of Elections
No Honeymoon
North Macedonia's new PM, Dimitar Kovacevski [C] surrounded by his government ministers. Photo: EPA/EFE-GEORGI LICOVSKI
Dimitar Kovacevski has not even celebrated a month in office as Prime Minister, yet he is already faced with a fight to stave off an attempt by the opposition VMRO-DPMNE to force an early election.
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Kosovo Serb Politician Ivanovic Threatened Before Murder, Court Told
Three years after the initial indictment for the murder of Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic, the first witness was heard in the trial at Pristina Basic Court on Monday.
Kosovo Police Clash With Serbs in Anti-Smuggling Crackdown
Kosovo Police clashed with Kosovo Serb protesters in the divided northern town of Mitrovica on Wednesday as they conducted an operation against the smuggling of goods in the town.
Kosovo Serbs threw different explosive devices at the police and put up blockades of trucks on roads close to the technical high school in Serb-run North Mitrovica.
Kosovo Serbs Furious About Jailing of MP for ‘Ethnic Hatred’
Serb judges in the town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo refused to work on Wednesday in protest after MP Ivan Todosijevic was convicted of ethnic, racial or religious intolerance for his comments about the January 1999 massacre of 45 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Racak/Recak, which he claimed was staged.
Kosovo Arrests Three Suspects for Attack on Serb
Kosovo police have detained three people over an attack on a young Kosovo Serb in the northern part of the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica on Tuesday morning.
Police said that one of the suspects who was arrested, identified only by the initials E.A., is a Kosovo Albanian who is on the wanted list to serve a prison sentence, news website KosSev reported.
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