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Kosovo Serb Minister Quits Under Serbian Pressure
Slavko Simic, the head of Lista Srpska, the ethnic Serbian party in Kosovo's coalition government, told Kosovo's public broadcaster late on Thursday that Jevtic had filed her resignation from the position of local government minister.
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Mustafa Calls Serbia's Role in Kosovo 'Destructive'
The ethnic Serbian party in Kosovo's coalition government, Srpska Lista, on Wednesday stated that following a request from Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, it would again freeze its participation in Kosovo institutions.
The party also said that Mirjana Jevtic, who last week replaced Ljubomir Maric as Minister for Local Government, will resign from her post.
Kosovo Budget Held up by Row Over Veteran Benefits
Kosovo parliament's budget and finance committee will meet again on Wednesday for the sixth time since the government at the beginning of November moved the law to discuss the 2017 budget.
The meeting comes two days after the committee failed to debate the budget because MPs from the senior coalition partner, the Democratic League of Kosovo, PDK, failed to show up.
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Hashim Thaci faces possibility of being on trial for war crimes
BELGRADE - Almost two years since the Kosovo parliament adopted the law on the establishment of the Special War Crimes Court, Pristina was visited by recently elected special prosecutor of the court David Schwendiman, where he spoke with the Chief Prosecutor Aleksandar Ljumezi.
Dacic dismisses Pristina's demands as "wish list"
Serbia's first deputy PM and foreign minister, Ivica Dacic, says Belgrade will "never" discuss the latest demands coming from Pristina.
"That is a fountain of wishes and (Edita) Tahiri's wish list that she can hang on the bulletin board of the Kosovo parliament," Dacic said in the Serbian National Assembly late on Wednesday.
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Kosovo Hails Sharp Drop in Middle Eastern Fighters
Speaking at the 93rd NATO Parliamentary Assembly Rose Roth seminar, which was held in Pristina for the first time, Kosovo Interior Minister Skender Hyseni said his country had sharply cut the number of people going to fight in Syria and Iraq from 300 to just two in the last year.
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Kosovo Police Director Denies Serbian 'Terror' Charges
Nehat Thaci told a court hearing in Belgrade on Monday that he denied charges accusing him of expelling a Serb family from the village of Lipljan during the Kosovo war in July 1999 and threatening them with a bomb.
Kosovo's Vetevendosje Rallies Supporters in Albania
Two leaders of Kosovo's Vetevendosje [Self determination] Movement, party chairman Visar Ymeri and one of the founders, Albin Kurti, rallied several hundred supporters in Tirana, Albania, on Tuesday, explaining why they oppose the Kosovo parliament adopting a demarcation deal with Montenegro.
Serb Census in Northern Kosovo Faces Obstacles
The chair of the Kosovo parliament's Commission for Public Administration, Zenun Pajaziti, told BIRN that his commission had approved a draft document for a census to be held in northern Kosovo, which now has to be put on the parliamentary agenda.
The census in the four northern municipalities was planned for this autumn, the Deputy Minister of Local Government, Bajram Gecaj, added.
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More tear gas in Kosovo's assembly; water thrown at PM
Opposition deputies twice activated tear gas in the Kosovo parliament on Thursday, pointed a laser light at a minister, and threw water at the prime minister.
After this, they walked out.