Mitrovica

"Thanks to the wisdom and the desire to avoid conflicts and preserve peace Serbia managed to do that," PM Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday evening in Belgrade.

Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric on Thursday arrived in Kosovo, where he attended the opening of a gas station.

The NIS gas station in Kosovska Mitrovica is one of three opened in northern Kosovo, and Djuric described them as doing business there legally, "as these are economic organizations registered in both systems."

A high school student has been shot and killed in front of a school in southern Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday morning, the police have confirmed.

The incident happened in front of the Frang Bardi high school.

A protected witness, K1, one of the members of Naser Kelmendi's alleged crime ring, testified against his alleged former boss on Monday, stating that the group smuggled heroin from Turkey through Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia to Bosnia, where it was sold to different European countries.

Kosovo police's director in the Mitrovica area, Nehat Thaci, arrested on terrorism charges, was transferred from the prison in Niš to Belgrade for the hearing.

Thaci underwent questioning at the Special Court, denying the accusations, while his attorneys claim that he was illegally arrested and that the proceeding is being intentionally delayed.

Three Albanians have been arrested in the region of the town of Kosovska Mitrovica in northern Kosovo when more than 45 kilograms of cocaine were also seized.

The Kosovo police announced this late on Wednesday.

SREMSKA MITROVICA - Red Star Belgrade have defended their title in the regional ABA basketball league after beating Mega Leks 61-49 (24-16, 13-18, 9-6, 15-9) on the road in Sremska Mitrovica on Monday, wrapping up the play-off final series with a 3-0 sweep.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Holy Fire from Jerusalem was on Monday welcomed for the second consecutive year by Christian Orthodox believers in the Church of St. Demetrius in Kosovska Mitrovica.

BELGRADE - Armed members of the so-called "Albanian National Army" (ANA) called for the mobilization of its fighters in the region of Kosovska Mitrovica, reported Albanian portal Veriu.info.

In the video, published on the portal, carried by Serbian portal "Kossev", the fighters were called to a fight and give the oath.

A handover ceremony was held on Friday for a newly-built safe house in Sremska Mitrovica, a town northwest of Belgrade, in the province of Vojvodina.

The donor, the B92 Fund, handed the facility over the the Center for Social Welfare Sava.