Geography of Kosovo

Sami Lushtaku, Ismet Haxha and Sahit Jashari surrendered to the Kosovo Police on Thursday night, two days after they went on the run from a clinic in Pristina on Tuesday after refusing to be transferred to a prison in the northern town of Mitrovica.

The defendants surrendered in the hospital surroundings, where it is believed they had been hiding since their escape.

Three ex-KLA members accused of war crimes escape

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- A judge of the Basic Court in Northern Mitrovica has been asked to issue an arrest warrant for three fugitive defendants, former members of "the Drenica Group."

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Kosovo Minister of Administration and Local Self-Government Slobodan Petrovic told Tanjug on Friday that the Ministry will most likely approve the amendments to the statutes of the Serb-majority municipalities in northern Kosovo.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Councillors of the northern Mitrovica City Assembly unanimously adopted on Thursday the amendments to the municipal statute at a closed session.

Councillor Nedzad Ugljanin told Tanjug that all 16 councillors who attended the session voted in favour of the amendments and the calling of new extraordinary elections was thus avoided.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Kosovska Mitrovica Mayor Goran Rakic Wednesday expressed a strong protest at the Pristina administration refusing to certify the charters of four majority-Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) for four months now.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Head of the Health Centre in Kosovska Mitrovica Dr Milan Ivanovic said on Tuesday that the surgical and blood transfusion programme of that institution in northern Kosovo was under threat, because the Kosovo customs had confiscated medicines a few days earlier.

EU commissioner meets with mayors from north

PRIŠTINA -- EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule will on Tuesday in Kosovska Mitrovica hold a meeting with mayors of Serb majority municipalities in northern Kosovo.

Detention extended for Ivanović for two more months

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Another two-month extension of detention on remand has been ordered for Oliver Ivanović, his lawyer Nebojša Vlajić, said over the weekend.

Ivanović is the leader of a political group gathering Serbs in northern Kosovo, the Citizens’ Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (SDP).

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA – Another two-month extension of detention on remand has been ordered for Oliver Ivanovic, leader of the Citizens’ Initiative ‘Freedom, Democracy, Justice’ (SDP), Nebojsa Vlajic, his lawyer, said Saturday.

Vlajic told Tanjug that he will appeal the decision.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Two EULEX vehicles were attacked on the road to the Brnjak crossing in Zubin Potok municipality, northern Kosovo, but nobody was injured in the incident, EULEX Spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic told Tanjug on Saturday.