Mitrovica, Kosovo

Armed and uniformed members of the so-called Albanian National Army (ANA; AKSh) "have appeared in the region of Southern (Kosovska) Mitrovica."

This has been reported by the northern-Kosovo based website Kossev, which cited veriu.info as its source.

The Serb Radical Party (SRS) on Tuesday held a rally in Kosovska Mitrovica that its leader Vojislav Seselj addressed by telephone.

He was previously banned from traveling there, the Beta agency has reported.

The government is ready to back new projects and job creation, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.

He made the remark at the launch of a passenger river cruiser at the Vahali shipyard in Sremska Mitrovica.

Oliver Ivanovic will be allowed to leave jail on Wednesday "for several hours" in order to attend his 5-year-old child's birthday celebrations.

The decision was made by the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica, Radio Kontakt Plus has reported.

Several hundred Serbs took to the streets of the Kosovo town of Mitrovica to support politician Oliver Ivanovic, who was jailed for ordering the murder of ethnic Albanians in April 1999.

Citizens gathered on Friday in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica in support of leader of the Citizens' Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic.

He was last week found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to nine years in prison.

The Kosovo police on Monday morning blocked a street in the Bosnjacka Mahala neighborhood of northern Kosovska Mitrovica.

This came after a suitcase, suspected of containing explosives, was found there. But the object, which the police destroyed "using a small amount of explosives," turned out to be empty.

A young Serb man was seriously wounded in late Sunday's shooting in Kosovska Mitrovica, Tanjug has been told at the local hospital.

Another person, a 21-year old man sustained minor injuries, the agency said.

Oliver Ivanovic, a Serb politician from northern Kosovo, has been found guilty on charges of war crimes and sentenced to nine years in prison.

The international court chamber of the Basic Court on Kosovska Mitrovica was presided by Judge Roxana Comsa from Romania.

An explosion in northern Kosovska Mitrovica has caused damage on eight passenger cars and a nearby building.

The blast occurred near a building known as "Vampirusa," located on the entrance to the town from the direction of Zvecan.