Ferizaj

Kosovo police on Thursday removed surveillance cameras in the southern Serb-majority municipality of Shterpce/Strpce, acting on the orders of the Ferizaj/Urosevac Basic court and prosecution.

They were told to remove surveillance cameras allegedly controlled by the Serbian authorities, and empty a previously closed municipal building.

However, the Kosovo police report says the eighth-grade pupil's mother assaulted the teacher, not the pupil herself.

On April 27 each year, Kosovo commemorates its national day of missing persons, but families of the wartime disappeared and Kosovo Albanian and Serb officials always commemorate separately.

Jasmina Zivkovic, whose father Paun went missing in September 1999 in the eastern municiplaity of Ferizaj/Urosevac, marks the day with other relatives of Serbs who disappeared.

The story went viral quickly and was republished by almost countless news portals, media and social media pages, so that now it is still impossible to determine which media initiated the report.

In a movie-like scene, a powerful Belgrade-backed politician and businessman, Milan Radoicic, escaped arrest on Thursday at the Brnjak crossing point between Kosovo and Serbia.

The Court of Appeals in Pristina on Thursday upheld the verdict sentencing former police officer Zlatan Krstic to 14-and-a-half years in prison and former police inspector Destan Shabanaj to seven years for their roles in a deadly attack on Kosovo Albanian civilians during the war.

In a blow after its meteoric rise eight months ago, Kosovo's ruling Vetevendosje party will have to wait for the second round of local elections to see whether it has won control of any of the country's 38 municipalities.

Refugees fleeing the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan were flown in to Pristina airport on Sunday evening, where they received medical check-ups before being sent onwards to the town of Ferizaj/ Urosevac.

Dozens of locals and civil society activists protested on Tuesday in Ferizaj/Urosevac after the dead body of an 18-year-old woman was left near the door of the local hospital by two men who then immediately drove away.

Pristina Basic Court on Tuesday sentenced former police officer Zlatan Krstic to 14-and-a-half years in prison and former police inspector Destan Shabanaj to seven years for their roles in a deadly attack on Kosovo Albanian civilians during the war.