Prizren

The statue of former OSCE mission chief William Walker will be installed in January in the village of Recak/Racak in central Kosovo, where 45 ethnic Albanian civilians, including elderly people and children, were massacred by Serbian forces.

The Turkish consulate in the city of Prizren in Kosovo was attacked by unidentified assailants hurling Molotov cocktails early on Nov. 28, according to Kosovar authorities.

Kosovo civil society activists have called another protest on Thursday in Pristina's main Skenderbeg Square over the death of Vetevendosje activist Astrit Dehari who died early in November in a jail in Prizren.

The rallty is supported by thousands of social media users using the hashtag #JusticeForAstrit or Albanian #DrejtesiPerAstritin.

According to the chief prosecutor of the western Kosovo town of Prizren, Syle Hoxha, 17 people were interviewed during the investigation, four of whom were interviewed twice.

"All the evidence and examinations carried out during the investigation show that this case was a suicide," Hoxha told a press conference on Friday.

Protesters marched in Kosovo's capital on Monday, invited by civil society activists, journalists, artists and NGOs to demand "Justice for Astrit" .

Civil society activist Besa Luzha said the truth about the death in prison in Prizren nine days ago of Vetevendosje activist Astrit Dehari must be investigated by independent, international investigators.

Lawyers, NGOs and politicians continued to pile pressure on Kosovo's authorities to explain the circumstances by which a young opposition Vetevendosje activist died prison in Prizren, western Kosovo.

The opposition Vetevendosje movement has said the death of one its activists, Astrit Dehari, in prison in Prizren should be investigated by foreign experts.

At a press conference on Sunday, the opposition party demanded that the autopsy on Dehari, who died in detention, be conducted by foreign experts from Albania and Switzerland.

PRISTINA - Recently renovated and cleaned cemetery chapel in Pristina was turned into a public restroom and garbage dump, and several orthodox graves are overgrown with weeds, said the Dioceses of Raska and Prizren.

The Albanian and Serbian Prime Ministers, Edi Rama and Aleksandar Vucic, have issued a joint statement on Wednesday, commemorating the life and legacy of the late Bekim Fehmiu, a famous Yugoslav stage and film actor of Albanian ethnicity.

PRIZREN - Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) on Sunday called on Kosovo-Metohija Serbs to remain in the province, urging its displaced population to return.

Following a liturgy he served in St George's Cathedral in Prizren, Kosovo-Metohija, he said that "Kosovo will remain ours if we carry it in our souls."