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Anniversary of Kosovo Serb Politician’s Murder Commemorated
Four events were held on Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the killing of Oliver Ivanovic, who was gunned down outside his political party's office in the north of the divided town of Mitrovica on January 16, 2018.
Kosovo Issues First Indictment for Football Match-Fixing
Four football officials have been indicted in Kosovo for allegedly fixing a match played in the northern city of Mitrovica in February, to secure a Belgian-based relative of one of those involved 10,000 euros in prize winnings, media reported on Thursday.
Ivanovic Family Protest Name’s Misuse in Kosovo Elections
The family of the murdered Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic have asked the Kosovo Election Commission to forbid the main Kosovo Serb party, Srpska Lista, SL, from using his name in the October elections after a senior official of his party defected to the SL.
Kosovo Faces Challenge in Reintegrating Families of ISIS Fighters
Most of the children joined their Kosovar families. Yvejs and his sister, however, were separated from two younger half-sisters. Fatime and Yvejs were taken in by their uncle in the northern town of Mitrovica, while the two younger girls, Isra and Alsa, joined their father's parents in a village near the central Kosovo town of Ferizaj/Urosevac.
Kosovo Serb Businesses Stage Strike Against Import Tariffs
Shops, bakeries, gas stations, hairdressers, pharmacies, fast food shops and all other local businesses closed on Monday in the northern Serb-led municipalities of Kosovo, protesting against the 100-per-cent tariff that the government has imposed on imports from Serbia.
How Does Kosovo Look to a Japanese Woman?
Anyway, I learned how to cross the street after a week - the traffic without street lights surprised me at first, but I survived.
So what was it like to be a Japanese person in Kosovo?
Bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo. View from north, 2014. Photo: Wikimedia/Pudalek
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Serbian Forces ‘On Full Alert’ After Kosovo Police Raids
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that his country's army and police are fully combat-ready to protect Serbs in northern Kosovo in the event of any violence against them by Kosovo's forces.
Kosovo Police Stage Major Raid in Serb-Majority North
Kosovo police launched raids in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the Serb-majority north of the divided town of Mitrovica, sparking an angry reaction from Serbia.
Ten people have been arrested so far, and the police action is ongoing, according to a BIRN reporter.
Srpska Lista Scores Landslide Victory in North Kosovo Polls
Preliminary results from Sunday's snap elections in four municipalities in northern Kosovo show that candidates from the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party secured an expected landslide victory, with each of them taking over 90 per cent of the votes.
UN Shares Blame for Segregated Education in Kosovo
When the UN-led mission, UNMIK, took over the rebuilding of Kosovo's institutions under UN Security Council Resolution 1244 in June 1999, it identified a key goal in the area of education: to lay the foundations of an inclusive and integrated system. Easier said than done.
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