Kosovo

BELGRADE - The residents of southern Serbia are worried about history repeating itself amid reports that Kosovan Albanians are buying up large amounts of property in towns and villages there, Sputnik Serbia reported.

Families of victims from the village of Rezala accuse Serbian army chief Ljubisa Dikovic of killing 41 villagers during the war of the 1990s – and demand that Kosovo’s judicial organs investigate.

The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will be continued at expert level in Brussels on Thursday, the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo has announced.

The two-day discussions will be held at the European External Action Service headquarters, with the agenda to include all open issues from past discussions between Belgrade and Pristina.

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said on Wednesday in Belgrade that his country will "never" recognize Kosovo.

Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in 2008, but Serbia rejected this proclamation as a violation of its territorial integrity and Constitution.

The Football Association of Serbia (FSS) has appeal UEFA's decision to allow the Kosovo Football Association to join as a member.

The appeal has been filed with the the Lausanne-based Court for Arbitration for Sport (CAS)

STARA PAZOVA - President of the Football Association of Serbia (FSS) Slavisa Kokeza said Sunday that the FSS would send a letter to the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) regarding the decision by European football's governing body to allow Kosovo football clubs to compete in European competitions.
    

GRACANICA/PRIZREN - Kosovo's Constitutional Court ended 16 years of dispute in a property case with a ruling deciding it in favor of Visoki Decani Monastery, confirming its ownership rights to over 24 hectares (59 acres) of the disputed land, the The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Diocese of Raska and Prizren said in a release on Saturday.
    

BELGRADE - Kosovo court announced on May 20 that it has sentenced seven men to prison terms of up to 10 years after finding them guilty of being part of the so-called Islamic State (IS) extremist group.

The main defendant, Imam Zekeria Qazimi, was jailed for 10 years for recruiting young Kosovars to go and fight in Syria for the IS.

GRACANICA - The deputy head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Dusan Kozarev has expressed confidence that the decisions in favour of Kosovo's admission to European and world football's governing bodies UEFA and FIFA will be annulled because the truth, justice and the law are on the side of the Football Association of Serbia (FSS).