Mitrovica, Kosovo

The prosecutor failed to prove factual guilt of Citizens' Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic, Ivanovic's lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic said on Thursday.

He was presenting the closing arguments of the defense in the trial of Ivanovic and four other Serbs before the Municipal Court in Kosovska Mitrovica.

A hand grenade that failed to detonate has been thrown at a store in the village of Gojbulja near Vucitrn in Kosovo.

Radio Kontakt Plus form Kosovska Mitrovica reported that a large number of people were in the store when the attack took place. Local Serbs shop there, according to this.

A Kosovo Albanian was wounded and eight cars were damaged in an explosion that took place in north Kosovska Mitrovica on Sunday.

After the incident that happened around 13:00 CET, Zeljko Bojic, Kosovo police regional chief of operating, told Tanjug that the explosive device used is most probably a bomb, and that a Kosovo Albanian was injured on the occasion.

Islamic State (IS, ISIS) graffiti have been sprayed on Serb homes in ethnically mixed neighborhoods in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, the police have confirmed.

Regional Kosovo police chief Zeljko Bojic told Beta on Friday that the graffiti spelling "ISIS" were found "in his area of responsibility," and that about ten of them have been discovered over the past week.

The International Trial Chamber of the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica has extended the house arrest for Oliver Ivanovic until January 17, 2016.

The International Trial Chamber of the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica has extended the house arrest for Oliver Ivanovic until January 17, 2016.

The Kosovo Foundation for Open Society, KFOS, will organize the opening ceremony for the Civic Energy Center, CEC.

According to announcements, this will take place on Tuesday in North Mitrovica, in cooperation the NGO AKTIV.

Serbs in the Kosovo towns of Gracanica and Mitrovica protested and a war of words raged online as UNESCO prepared to discuss Pristina’s bid for membership of the UN cultural body.

Orthodox priest Sasa Mitrovic and his wife Marija are the first Serbs to return to the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica after 11 years.

The Serbs were driven out of the southern Mitrovica, inhabited by ethnic Albanians, in 1999, and the few that remained were expelled during the anti-Serb pogrom in the March of 2004.

Leader of Citizens' Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice Oliver Ivanovic was released from the northern Kosovska Mitrovica hospital on Monday.

Ivanovic spent over a month in the hospital after he launched a hunger strike in northern Mitrovica prison on August 7 demanding that he should be released pending trial. As of today, he has been placed under house arrest.

The international panel of judges of the Basic Court in Kosovska Mitrovica has decided to release Oliver Ivanovic from prison pending the outcome of his trial.

Ivanovic, who has been imprisoned for 20 months, will now be placed under house arrest.