Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

BELGRADE - Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric has urged the provincial authorities and competent representatives of the international community to urgently find and punish the perpetrators of an attack in northern Kosovska Mitrovica in which a young Serb man was stabbed in the chest late on Thurdsay, the Office for KiM said in a release.

BELGRADE - Kosovo Police Regional Chief of Operations Zeljko Bojic said in the wake of the attack on the Serb young men who was stabbed and taken to hospital wounded late on Thursday that the Kosovo Police would strengthen its presence in Mitrovica.

Police patrol "did not react" as Serb teen was attacked

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Three members of the Kosovo police who were on duty as a 17-year-old Serb was stabbed in an incident in Kosovska Mitrovica have been suspended.

This announcement was made on Friday, a day after the incident, by Deputy Regional Commander of the Kosovo Police Besim Hoti.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A young man of Serbian nationality, SN (17), was attacked and stabbed in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica and taken to a local hospital late on Thursday, Kosovo Police Regional Chief of Operations Zeljko Bojic has told Tanjug.

Serb teenager stabbed near K. Mitrovica bridge

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- A 17-year-old Serb boy who was stabbed in the chest near the bridge on the Ibar River in Kosovska Mitrovica is in a stable condition after he underwent surgery.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and the new representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Belgrade Hans Friedrich Schodder discussed on Thursday the issue of displaced persons in Serbia and the implementation of the Regional Housing Program for refugees.

GRACANICA - French humanitarian organisation 'Solidarity for Kosovo' released on Thursday that it raised nine tons of food for the Majka Devet Jugovica soup kitchen in Gracanica.

The organisation has been assisting the work of soup kitchens in Kosovo-Metohija ever since 2004.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic conferred on Thursday with newly-appointed Algerian Ambassador to Serbia Abdelhamid Chebchoub and expressed hope that the two countries' good relations will be promoted even further during his term of office.

Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic hosted her Kosovo counterpart, Hashim Thaci, in Zagreb on Wednesday, when the two of them signed a European partnership agreement.

The Kosovo government has put forward a landmark proposal that will make it easier for Kosovo Serbs and members of other minority groups to apply for jobs in public institutions.

The deal involves Kosovo accepting the validity of diplomas issued by the country's Serbian-language university in the Serb-run far north of the country.