Independence of Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Mayor of North Kosovska Mitrovica Goran Rakic has called on the international community to invest maximum efforts into dealing with security issues and providing a safe environment for all the people in Kosovo.

"Serbia's EU road will not be blocked"

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić is convinced that "no one has the intention or desire to stop Serbia on its European path."

According to him, introduction of "Schengen visas for Serbian citizens" is not realistic.

Ivanović says he was arrested to end his political activity

BELGRADE -- Oliver Ivanović has said that his arrester came in order to prevent his political activity.

Ivanović is one of Serb leaders in northern Kosovo, arrested in January and indicted this week for crimes against ethnic Albanians.

Operation against extremists in Kosovo continuing, official says

BELGRADE - Oliver Ivanovic, one of the Serb leaders in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), against whom a criminal indictment for crimes against ethnic Albanians has been issued recently, said he had been arrested so that his political action could be prevented.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Thursday with UN Resident Coordinator in Serbia Irena Vojackova-Sollorano to discuss cooperation with the UN following the Donor Conference in Brussels.

PRISTINA - Kosovo's Special Court ordered on Thursday that 40 ethnic Albanians suspected of involvement in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq and of supporting terrorist organisations be placed in 30-day custody.

They were arrested in a large-scale operation by the Kosovo police on Monday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Thursday that he expects the first results of the task force set up to establish all circumstances of the 2008 embassy torchings in Belgrade to be presented soon, noting that all information will be made public.

PRISTINA - One of the main instigators of the jihad in Kosovo, Imam of the El-Kuddus Mosque in Gnjilane Zekerija Cazimi, was arrested in a police action on Thursday, local media reported.

GORAZDEVAC - Serbia marks the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attack in which two Serb children were murdered and four more were wounded on the bank of the Bistrica River in Gorazdevac near Pec, north-west Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).