Zubin Potok

"US citizens should exercise caution at holiday festivals and events around the Catholic and Orthodox Easter celebrations," said a security alert posted on the embassy's website, and added:

"Extremists continue to focus on tourist locations, shopping malls, bars, houses of worship, and other soft targets. Please exercise additional vigilance in these and similar locations."

They are mentioned under suspicion of involvement in the crime of the disappearance of Mr. Ljubomir Knezevic, the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) is reporting on its website.

Knezevis was a journalist of the Pristina newspaper Jedinstvo and a correspondent of Politika.

That's according to Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, which adds that "the package" could be presented to Serbian officials on Wednesday, when US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell will visit Pristina, and then Belgrade.

Kosovo citizens go to the polls on Sunday to vote for mayors and members of assemblies in the country's 38 municipalities, hoping a change in power will lead to a change in their daily lives.

The main battle is focused in the capital, Pristina, which is also the only municipality governed by the opposition Vetevendosje Movement.

The Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo is promoting the tourism potential of Kosovo at this year's International Tourism Fair from February 23 to 26 in Belgrade - but only the potential of Serb-run areas in the former province that declared independence in 2008.

The head of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, has angered the Kosovo government by opening three gas selling points for the Serbian company Nis Petrol in Serb-run northern Kosovo in North Mitrovica, Zubin Potok and Zvecan.

Bratislav Dikic - Photo: Dado DJilas

PROKUPLJE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Monday voiced suspicion over accusations of terrorism levelled by Montenegro against a group of 20 Serbian citizens led by former Gendarmerie chief Bratislav Dikic that has been arrested in the country.

The government of Kosovo is entertaining the possibility of allowing Kosovo Serb citizens living in northern municipalities to undergo an unusual census following the boycott of the regular process five years ago.

ZUBIN POTOK - Slavisa Ristic, a candidate for a seat in the Serbian parliament, said late on Sunday that unknown persons had fired shots from automatic weapons at his house in the village of Jagnjenica near Zubin Potok in northern Kosovo, but luckily, no one had been injured.
    

Vucic is campaigning for the Serbian elections which are due to take place on April 24th. The explosion happened a few hours before he arrived in the Serbian-populated north of Kosovo.