Mitrovica, Kosovo

Petkovic: Kosovo Serb wounded in shooting by Pristina's special police

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday Pristina's special police had fired at a vehicle carrying two Serbs, wounding one of them.

Miljan D, who was driving, is seriously wounded while Dusan S, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, is unharmed, Petkovic said.

Kosovo Police Confirm Shooting at Serb-driven Vehicle

Kosovo police confirmed that they shot at a vehicle in which there were two Serbs in Bistrica, in the northern municipality of Leposavic, after trying to stop the vehicle.

Police on Monday said the police unit had been deployed at a checkpoint "with the aim to preserve order and public safety and also to prevent crime and smuggling".

Zuroff: Honours for Deva an insult to memory of his victims

JERUSALEM - The director of Jerusalem-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Efraim Zuroff, says the Centre consistently opposes a renovation of the Kosovska Mitrovica house of WWII Nazi collaborationist Xhafer Deva.

In a statement to Tanjug, Zuroff said honours for Deva sent a horrible message to the Kosovo society and were a terrible insult to the memory of his numerous victims.

KFOR removes last barricade in north of Kosovo-Metohija

PRISTINA - KFOR removed the last barricade in the north of Kosovo-Metohija on Tuesday.

A KFOR unit conducted an engineer operation, removing two trucks from the new bridge at Dudin Krs in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica.

KFOR said it had removed the vehicles to make roads in the north of Kosovo-Metohija passable and restore freedom of movement, the RTS reported.

Tensions in North Mitrovica: Vehicles with KM license plates on the streets

The streets of North Mitrovica were still this morning full of cars with license plates issued by the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia.
What citizens most often say is that they do not follow the statements of officials from Pristina, but what official Belgrade tells them.

Brnabić responded to the Albanian journalist's provocation: "I feel like I'm at home"

Prime Minister Ana Brnabi said today during her visit to Kosovo and Metohija that Serbia will always be with its people in Kosovo and Metohija.
"We will continue to fight for our people, its dignity, and also to see prosperity and an increasingly better quality of life here in Kosovo and Metohija," said Prime Minister Brnabic.

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