Kosovan parliamentary election

The Assembly of Kosovo on Wednesday adopted a resolution proposed by the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, based on which it will establish a committee to investigate the highly controversial deportation of six Turkish nationals on March 29.

The Serbs announced their exit after last week's incidents and arrest of Serbian official Marko Djuric.

Krasniqi, from the ruling PDK, said the Serb List could now return, considering that Interior Minister Flamur Sefaj has resigned.

Kosovo Interior Minister Flamur Sefar has said his sacking on Tuesday was sought by Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj following the controversial arrest and deportation of six Turkish citizens.

Haradinaj said that he had not been duly informed about the "secret and urgent deportation" of the six Turkish nationals.

Hashim Thaci: Guerrilla Chief Became Kosovo Leader

An Albanian boy in military uniform salutes to KLA leader Hashim Thaci during Albanian celebrations marking the retreat of Serbian troops from Podujevo, Saturday, 07 August 1999. Photo: EPA/ALBAN BUJARI

BELGRADE - The Srpska list is the absolute winner of the Kosovo-Metohija local elections after winning in all ten Serb-majority municipalities, Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian Office for Kosovo-Metohija, said on Monday.

Polling stations opened at 7am on Sunday in Kosovo for the second round of the local elections, in 19 municipalities where no one claimed victory in round one.

The Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published an updated list of countries that have recognized Kosovo, Tanjug reported on Friday.

The agency cited the Pristina-based Albanian language daily Koha Ditore, which writes that Nigeria and Uganda have been removed from the list - and that Pristina never received their recognition notes.

Spain's ambassador to NATO recently visited the KFOR base in Pristina, and asked Kosovo officials not to refer to themselves by their titles.

At the retrial of three Kosovo men accused of trafficking in human organs, a nurse who worked at the Medicus clinic near Pristina denied a statement she signed ten years ago about the removal of patients’ kidneys.

Voters in Kosovo are heading to the polls on October 22 in an election to choose mayors and councilors in 38 municipalities.

Some 1.89 million people are registered to vote at 2,505 polling stations in 38 municipalities, with the mayor's race in Pristina likely to be the most closely watched.