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Kosovo’s parliament should approve the establishment of a special court, located abroad, to try alleged war crimes and other grave crimes left over from the Kosovo conflict, Human Rights Watch has urged.

BELGRADE - The Appellate Court in Belgrade extended for two months the detention of two former members of the state security service, Milan Radonjic and Ratko Romic, suspected of killing journalist Slavko Curuvija in Belgrade on April 11, 1999.

The EU rule-of-law mission said it had assisted local police in the arrest of the 32-year-old in Zupce/Zupc on Friday.

“The arrested suspect was taken to EULEX Mitrovica Logbase for further questioning. The arrest warrant was requested by UNMIK in 2011,” EULEX noted.

ZVECAN - Eulex is continuing the policy of disrespecting the request of legitimate Kosovo Serb representatives that the Kosovo police be recognised as the sole institution responsible for security and implementing the rule of law in northern Kosovo-Metohija, officials of the four municipalities in the north of the province and the Kosovo police in Region North have concluded after an extraordin

"Freedom of speech, journalists still threatened"

BELGRADE -- The Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation warned on Friday that freedom of speech and safety of journalists in Serbia are still threatened.

The organization issued a statement on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the murder of the journalist and publisher.

Russian foreign ministry recommended to its citizens to avoid travelling to countries who have agreements with USA for apprehension and extradition of citizens of third countries. 

The warning was prompted by the international sanctions imposed on Russian officials, businesspeople and media directors, because of the annexation of Crimea.

15 years since murder of Slavko Ćuruvija

BELGRADE -- The 15th anniversary of the murder of Slavko Ćuruvija is marked without the crime solved, although every government each year promises this was a priority.

The Appellate Chamber of the Bosnian State Court sentenced a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, Drazen Mikulic, to a year-and-a-half in prison for crimes against a Bosniak civilian held in the Dretelj camp, near Capljina, in 1993.

Trial opens in swine flu vaccines fraud case

BELGRADE -- Svetlana Vukajlović Popržen has denied charges of having embezzled millions of dinars of state budget funds in a procurement of swine flu vaccines in 2009.

She is a former director of the Serbian Institute for Health Insurance.

"Commission is not exonerating Vučić"

BELGRADE -- "There are 39 unsolved murders of journalists. It is very important, for all our sakes, that we get answers to questions on how they died," says Veran Matić.