Pristina

PRISTINA - Pristina's election complaints panel rejected on Thursday an appeal by Albin Kurti's Self-Determination movement against a decision by the central election commission to certify Srpska lista for the February 9 elections in Kosovo-Metohija.

In its decision, the panel said an appeal against a decision of December 31 had been rejected, Pristina-based media outlets reported.

Aydın Aydınoğlu, whose family migrated from Pristina, Kosovo, to the Samatya neighborhood of Istanbul's Fatih district in 1963, continues his family's 110-year work watch repair as a third-generation watchmaker.

PRISTINA - Pristina PM Albin Kurti's Self-Determination Movement on Thursday filed an appeal with an election complaints panel against a decision by the central election commission to verify a Srpska lista application to run in the February 9 elections in Kosovo-Metohija, and demanded that the decision be annulled.

PRISTINA - Pristina's central election commission announced it had certified a list of Srpska lista candidates for the February 9 elections in Kosovo-Metohija.

At Tuesday's session of the commission, one representative of Pristina PM Albin Kurti's Self-Determination Movement again voted against the move, Pristina-based paper Zeri reported.

BELGRADE - The issue of missing persons in the wake of the 1999 war in Kosovo-Metohija remains current for Serbian state authorities, but the search for those missing has been bogged down by insufficient engagement by the Pristina provisional institutions, the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo-Metohija said at a conference titled Waiting for the Truth and Justic

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Pristina's special police raided the building of a Serbian urban planning enterprise in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday.

During the raid, the so-called Kosovo Police seized the enterprise's property found inside the building.

The enterprise has around a dozen employees.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Thursday evening more countries would derecognise the so-called Kosovo.

In an appearance on an RTS talk show, Vucic said they were African and Asian countries and added that "there are some in Latin America as well."

GRACANICA - The so-called Kosovo Police on Thursday raided the building of the Gracanica municipality, which operates within the system of the provisional Pristina institutions, and arrested two people on suspicion of office abuse and corruption.

The entrance to the building was not blocked during the raid and armed police troops could be seen outside.

PRISTINA - KFOR Commander Maj Gen Enrico Barduani met with Italian Deputy PM and FM Antonio Tajani at the KFOR Headquarters in Camp Film City in Pristina on Monday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Thursday Pristina had denied entry to the province to its Deputy Director Svetlana Miladinov, who was to visit the Orthodox Serb population on St Nicholas Day (December 19).