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EULEX said detention on remand has been extended until July 7 for Kelmendi, who was arrested on May 5, 2013 by Kosovo police acting on an international arrest warrant. Fuad Nikqi, suspected of assisting Kelmendi, was also arrested.

A EULEX prosecutor then opened an investigation into the case based on the same offences that Kelmendi has been accused of in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Controversy has erupted over a state fund that will be set up to support former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas on trial at a new internationally-backed war crimes tribunal.

A witness said that Bosnian Croat ex-fighter Indira Kameric, accused of abusing prisoners in Bosanski Brod, helped to assault a detainee and stamped on him with high-heeled shoes.

A bill envisaging a single body in charge of competition and consumer protection has been submitted by Yordan Tsonev, MP from liberal party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS).

The commission will combine the functions of the existing Commission on Protection of Competition and Commission for Consumer Protection.

Police to investigate power company EPS

BELGRADE -- The Organized Crime Prosecutor has issued an official order for the police to look into the allegations about possible wrongdoings at the state-run company EPS.

Police in Istanbul and Edirne have dismantled a crime group which engaged in illegal trafficking of immigrants from Middle East countries to Bulgaria and Greece.

The 12-strong crime group was uncovered as a result of several months of tracking by special police units, according to reports of dnevnik.bg.

Transparency International – Macedonia said it was filing criminal charges against the ruling VMRO DPMNE party and its junior government partner, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI.

The defence lawyer for Edin Dzeko, a former member of the Bosnian Army’s Zulfikar Squad, said he was not guilty of executing six Croats in Trusina in 1993.

Scandalous court decision for Vojvodina fans leader Chief of hooligan gang released for the 20-th time

Ivan Kljucovski (28), leader of the G3 Fraction of the Vojvodina FC fans has been released from charges for violent behavior by a court in Novi Sad, the Blic learns.

STRASBOURG - Around 1.7 million people were held in European prisons in 2012, and Serbia ranked first in prison overcrowding, show the Annual Penal Statistics of the Council of Europe, released in Strasbourg on Tuesday.