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PRISTINA - The defence team of a Kosovo-Metohija Serb charged by Pristina with alleged war crimes will seek a throwing out of his indictment and file a complaint against evidence presented against him because the indictment is based solely on witness accounts, lawyer Jovana Filipovic announced on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said last night Pristina's police had pointed guns at his son Danilo after pulling over his car near Podujevo, Kosovo-Metohija, on Wednesday and demanded that he take off a shirt reading Surrender Is Not An Option, but that he had refused to comply.

BELGRADE- The interim authorities in Pristina have denied a request by Belgrade's liaison officer Dejan Pavicevic to visit two Serb detainees in a Podujevo prison to see the conditions they are being held in and verify that their rights are respected, the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Friday.

PRISTINA - The lawyer of Miljan Adzic, a Kosovo-Metohija Serb arrested by Pristina's police, said on Thursday a basic court in Pristina had extended his client's detention by 60 days.

In a statement to Tanjug, lawyer Milos Delevic said the defence would appeal the decision and request that Adzic be transferred from a detention unit in Podujevo to Mitrovica.

According to his indictment, the unit had around 500 to 600 fighters. It operated in villages in northern Kosovo within the KLA's Llap Operational Zone, mostly in the Podujeve/Podujevo region, some 20 kilometres north-west of the capital Pristina.

Extraordinary local elections held in the municipalities of Podujeve/ Podujeva and North Mitrovica are seen as sending two signals; in one, they confirmed the growing popularity of Kosovo's biggest opposition party, Vetevendosje - and, in the other, Belgrade's continued influence in the Serb-majority north.

The supplies were supposed to be eaten in March and April, but by May they were rotting in the warehouse of the Artela restaurant in Podujeve/Podujevo in northeastern Kosovo.

Closed since March 21 under government restrictions to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants in Kosovo will be allowed to provide takeaway service from May 18, while some are already doing deliveries.

Another former member of a notorious Serbian paramilitary group has been released early from prison by a court in Belgrade having spent 12 years of a 15-year sentence for war crimes behind bars.

Miodrag Solaja fought with a unit known as the Scorpions during the 1998-99 war in Serbia's then southern province, Kosovo.

Novosti daily got this information form a Swedish judge Christer Karphammar, who was in charge of the investigation on the bomb attack on the Nis Express bus near Podujevo, back in 2001. He added that this was known at times when Ejupi was arrested in 2001.

Ethnic Albanian timber thieves from Podujevo, in Kosovo and Metohija, are crossing into the Kursumlija municipality, in central Serbia, "on a daily basis."

Kursumlija's local prokupljenadlanu.rs website reported this, adding that the incursions lately most often target the village of Dobri Do, on the slopes of Mt. Radan.